Drunken Users.

If it was me, I'd start with not much more than you would in a house with kids or a village hall, avoid things with a big bulging box protruding into in the room if it can be made flush or if not then protected from collision by location away from an obvious thoroughfare. Minimise electrics below drink spill level unless under a shelf, and think how things may be wiped over if it happens. Limit acccess to controls that might cause a panic if leant on  e.g. all Light switches but one  behind the bar. anything that needs concentration, such as room thermostat controls or the projector screen controls, not where someone might lean on it or fiddle idly. If there are glass break fire alarm call points, choose the sort with a flap to lift. Automate only things that can be easily over-ridden (so for example the screen can be sent back up and turned off if it is that sort) and projector can be turned off with a real switch even if the remote goes walkabout. Maybe caging around projector, speakers etc, if wild exuberance is expected.

Mike 

I live just up from the River Severn, when the Party Boats used to run they dropped anchor below our house because they weren't allowed to go back into town with the disco in action, we used to actually get the disco lights shining on our bedroom ceiling.

On several occasions we had the fire brigade searching the river from the bank and from a RIB whilst the Police helicopter was overhead lighting the area, because someone had got drunk and jumped overboard in the early hours of Sunday morning.

So I would probably start with a ring of floodlights around the perimeter of the boat to use to look for people in the water.

You could also put some bright flood lights over the bar and other strategic points to dazzle people if a fight starts, so they cannot see the people they are trying to hit.

The security floodlights on the bar need to be on the back wall with a switch on the bar itself, so the bar staff can turn the lights on without turning around and dazzling themselves or taking their eyes off the customers in front of the bar.

mapj1: 
 

. . . If there are glass break fire alarm call points, choose the sort with a flap to lift. . . 

The changes in BS5839-1:2017 mandated covers for all new and existing call points. 

Regards,

Alan. 

I'm sure a discussion about designing electrical installations for use by drunks would progress better in the Wiring Regs forum than the more refined Ask the community forum.  

It's like taking the darts board out of the bar and putting it in the lounge.

Sparkingchip: 
 

I'm sure a discussion about designing electrical installations for use by drunks would progress better in the Wiring Regs forum than the more refined Ask the community forum.  

 

It's like taking the darts board out of the bar and putting it in the lounge.

Moved by the pixies to Netherworld.

Z.

Always been wary of saloon bars myself. Preferred the side where you could go in with boots on. In these modern times the distinction is blurring, and the ladies bar has also also gone, as at one time only women less than respectable would be in the public bar, and ladies had comfier chairs and paid a modest premium elsewhere.

Mike

Zoomup: 
 

In the building that I am working in, the owner said that we need to make provision for drunken users. It is a mezzanine floor in a boat house with its own cinema screen and projector. Party people may use it.

 

What provisions would you make?

 

Z.

Make sure all hanging light fittings can support at least 1 adult :)

There may be a need for provision to hose down, scupper(s) in the deck would be useful.

Clive