Risk Assessment in the Audiovisual Industries
One-day workshop
(25 spaces available)
Date: Saturday 30th January 2010
Location: CA112 ATRiuM Cardiff
10:00 - 17:00
To book a place please email Hannah
A must for any students and graduates interested in becoming a producer or AD, production coordinator or manager, the one day course will look at:
Why do we have Health & Safety for film and TV?
How should it work?
Reducing Risks, Protecting people
Hazard v. Risk.
The importance of making a risk assesment.
Who’s responsibility is it?
The Roles of the Producer / PM / Camera man / HoDs / Contractors
How to share information – email, notice board, production meetings
Media industries are not above the law.
Case studies
Introduction to hazards & risk assements:
Do an impromptu Risk assessment.
- everyday domestic task
- typical work environment task
Identify the hazards
Decide who might be harmed and how
Evaluate the risks and decide on precaution
Record your findings and implement them - Don’t just write them down
Review your assessment and update if necessary
When was your office assesment done?
When it does go wrong - Reporting Accidents.
Risk Assesments
Specific areas
Manual Handling.
– are staff suitable trained and do they have the right equipment. e.g. should a runner carry the tripod? Stairs to location
Slips and Trips.
– cables, wet floors. Making tea and coffee on location
Fire.
- No longer dictated – must provide separate significant findings of assessment. Fire certificates no longer issued. Check fire exit route and muster points. Leaving site at lunchtime
Noise – basics. Pit crew at concerts. Factories. Airfields
Unseen Risks – gases, electricity, biological etc
Planning for Emergencies.
- Evacuation plan. Contact lists.
Driving
– to/from location. Hours, fatigue. Use public transport?
Management structure of H&S
Safety Policy – does your company have one?
Training and Training Records.
Office Hazards
Fire Risk Assessment
Manual Handling Assessments
Wind management
Working alongside others – terminology different
All’s well here!
Content: Examine typical areas of work
TV studios – all safe?? Do they have a safety management policy? Do
the people named on their H&S literature still actually work at the
company? Studio rules etc
Temporary Studios – old factories / buildings not designed for purpose
Private premises – houses not covered by law
Public Premises – fit for their purpose, but for yours?
Film Locations – day / night
DV cameras – greater risk owing to lack of training in the field
Events – own or others. Get RA from organiser. Access to their safety file / safety manager
SFX – pyrotechnics. Who decides what is right?
Transport – driving to/from work. Insurance
Working patterns – long hours
Q&A