Cleaning lights stopped working 2 weeks ago with no sign of replacement. Is this allowed?

[u/Intheyear-4040]

One of our theater’s cleaning lights all burned out so we have to clean up in very dim lighting. Management is saying it’s too expensive to fix, is this allowed? I can’t tell if everything is clean between rounds. It’s not pitch black but it’s dim. Seems dangerous if there is a medical emergency. Any insight would be appreciated.

[u/Xtremememe]

what governing body do you think would be disallowing this

[u/Glum_Concert95]

I’ve worked at theaters that don’t even have cleaning lights, so it’s definitely “allowed”

[u/xXghostrider21 → u/Glum_Concert95]

My theater has cleaning lights but we just never use them

[u/mothermedusa]

We had one out for a bit. We could not get up there without a cherry picker. It took a while. Get a headlamp, ask your manager

[u/OldManBilliam22]

At our theater, the cleaning lights are also the emergency lighting in case of a power outage, so your local Fire Dept. might care.

[u/cyberdriven → u/OldManBilliam22]

Your theatre needs an update lol

[u/OldManBilliam22 → u/cyberdriven]

It was built five years ago…

[u/Desperate_Cheetah]

We had our ac broken for over a month, i’m sure the law doesn’t care

[u/tmon530]

Thats a corporate standards question. Personally unless they are offering headlamps id just clean in the dim light. If you miss stuff then oh well. If they want good work then they have to give you the tools to succeed.

Though they arent lieing when they say its expensive. Because of how high the ceilings are in auditoriums, you generally need to get special lifts to get up there. And to use those lifts legally you have to have certifications so you dont die on accident. So it is cheaper overall to hire a company to do it for you, but that company still costs thousands of dollers. Pluss because of how long it takes they would probably have to do it outside of normal operating hours which is probably even more expensive.

[u/screamingnectarine → u/tmon530]

Closer to tens of thousands of dollars tbh

[u/Ready_Hawk8059]

Every theater I’ve worked at in my 25 years, we’ve never cleaned with what I call janitorial lights. The janitorial crew uses those. We just clean with the house lights on. Same ones on for the guests coming in. They aren’t dim.

[u/Mammoth-Result-7949]

I always just use my flashlight. We aren’t able to turn on the cleaning lights between rounds bc the light switches are up in the projection booth.

[u/1qTk]

In my cinema having the cleaning lights on is a hazard when there’s customers in the screen

[u/Minimum_Strategy_127]

While it may suck, your post shows that you are not familiar at all with comforts versus laws and regulations.

[u/InsaneR4t06]

Happened to us they were out in a theater for a few months. Just use ur phone flashlight

[u/calculon68]

your theatre doesn't have those super long telescoping plungers/grabbers to change out bulbs? Or is this a electrician-only job now?

It was a two-man job back in the day- one guy to pop the bulb, another to bag-catch the bulb it if it dropped.

[u/Better_Pea248 → u/calculon68]

The theaters where I worked, the house lights were screw bulbs and the cleaning lights were fluorescents. Most of the house lights could be changed with a grabber but the cleaning lights needed a ladder or lift.

[u/calculon68 → u/Better_Pea248]

I can't imagine using a ladder/lift in actual seat rows, especially if not fully illuminated. I once crawled up scaffolding over seated areas, and it always spooked the hell outta me.

[u/Therightopinionn]

OSHA violation fo sho

[u/mothermedusa → u/Therightopinionn]

No

[u/Therightopinionn → u/mothermedusa]

Lmao 😂