Lighting safety wire.

Lighting safety wire is a legal requirement for any rental PA system lighting hanging or suspended from stage rigging above shoulder height. Knot any old bit of string will do, you have to get the proper quality that conforms to all relevant BS and EC or USA safety directives and steel wire cable that is supplied with examination and Certificate of test.
The Lighting safety wire cables are manufactured from flexible 4mm steel with a safe working load of 35 Kg which is quiet adequate for most Tri-lite stage rig lighting system effects.
It’s defiantly not worth the risk of penny pinching you should have one safety wire anchor for very thing that can go with a swing.
What if your main disco centerpiece light fell and killed the bride at the wedding, where would you hide your head or what would you say on the mic. “Ha the silly thing could have cached it, that’s broke the lamp now”.
Eyeleted carbine hook and loop lighting safety wire are something all mobile Lighting engineers and Karaoke Dj services should be using.