Don't Use A Wired Microphone While In A Baptismal Pool

Never, ever, use a wired microphone while you are in a baptismal pool. A recent tragedy in Texas is only the latest of a long series of church leaders being electrocuted in pools. Even a normally harmless leakage of stray volts into a microphone is lethal when the body is immersed in water.

Make it your church policy that there is no mains-wired electrical equipment of any sort within reach of a baptistry pool, and that a permanent warning is displayed on your PA equipment about this. This includes not only microphones, but also lighting, camcorders, tape-recorders, and power sockets. Do not think that an RCD (earth leakage) trip switch gives sufficient safety - it cannot. Stick a permanent warning message on your sound mixer or amplifier. Please pass this warning on as widely as possible. Musicians should also understand electrical safety too. http://ied.gospelcom.net/electric-safety.php