Notre Dame Launches Campaign to Promote Lift Safety

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The University of Notre Dame has created a website promoting safety considerations for colleges and high schools that use aerial lifts to shoot video of sports and band practices. The site, launched Friday in accordance with a settlement over the death of student videographer Declan Sullivan last fall, includes a video introduction to aerial lift safety and video segments covering setup, training, weather information and safety contact. Fact sheets and fliers (detailing an organization's established wind-limit policy, for example) are available for printing and posting wherever aerial lifts are used.

Sullivan's scissor lift was blown to the ground in 50-mile-per-hour winds at a Notre Dame football practice in October. The university banned hydraulic lift use on its campus in March, and other schools, including the University of Florida, have installed permanent observation towers at their practice facilities.

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