Date: |
13 May 2026, 12.00PM – 1.00PM |
duration: |
1 hr |
Location: |
Online |
Cost: |
Free event |
All amusement devices require the same level of engineering oversight. In fact, children’s rides are often more difficult for the certifier as they require taking a child’s eye view of things, which does become more difficult over time.
Amusement device certification today is fairly niche engineering work, but it wasn’t always so. Jack will background who does this sort of work today and how he came to be involved in it.
We will look at what has gone wrong in the past, what we have learnt from it and how Engineering New Zealand’s smallest technical group was established to coordinate the work of certifiers and provide a direct link with the industry regulator, WorkSafe NZ.
How to provide what may seem to the participant to be a near-death experience without any possibility of actual harm occurring, would be one way of describing the work of the amusement device certifying engineer. This refers, of course, to the high adrenaline-type rides favoured by teenagers. At the other, more common, end of the scale, are what may appear to be relatively benign rides for children.
All amusement devices require the same level of engineering oversight. In fact, children’s rides are often more difficult for the certifier as they require taking a child’s eye view of things, which does become more difficult over time.
Amusement device certification today is fairly niche engineering work, but it wasn’t always so. Jack will background who does this sort of work today and how he came to be involved in it.
We will look at what has gone wrong in the past, what we have learnt from it and how Engineering New Zealand’s smallest technical group was established to coordinate the work of certifiers and provide a direct link with the industry regulator, WorkSafe NZ.
