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New Haven, CT - Pierre-André Salim would have graduated from the Yale School of Drama this year with a master’s in technical design and production. But Salim was killed in November 2007 when set materials for a Yale Rep show toppled onto him as he tried to unload them from a truck. He was 26 years old.

Now, largely in response to Salim’s death, the drama school has created a full-time safety director’s position—perhaps the first in the country.

“We’ve all, in this field, ignored materials handling,” says Rossol, who runs a nonprofit agency called Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety and also serves as health and safety director of a theatrical union in New York. After Salim’s death, Yale consulted with her as part of a comprehensive review of health and safety practices at the drama school.

Reynolds has long taught a mandatory safety course for first-year students in technical design and stage management. But the school is now expanding several areas of safety training and making physical improvements. In place of a second-story platform at the Yale Rep, to which materials for sets were lifted by overhead hoist or by hand, the drama school is installing a loading dock. Reynolds has also focused on supplementing the school’s safety curriculum and on preventing falls. Rossol says that when she first met with Yale officials, she “was very impressed with the openness and the willingness to fix” whatever problems she identified.

Read the full story at Yale Alumni Magazine.

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