What is a risk assessment?
A risk assessment is a process of
evaluating the potential risks that may be involved in a projected activity or
undertaking. It’s a big step in protecting workers and business as well as
following the law. For most, this means simple, cheap and effective measures to
ensure your workforce is protected. Risk assessment in the film industry
complies with their legal duties to eliminate or reduce risk from their work.
These include:
· Defining
responsibilities and duties,
· Have a system
for managing health and safety,
· Assess and
manage risks,
· Regularly
review the process and procedures for managing risk.
Why have a risk assessment?
If an
incident should occur on set of making your film that leaves someone that you
have working for you injured mentally or physically it can mean that you could
personally be fined or even potentially go to prison because of it! Where as if
you have a risk assessment in means that you have taken into consideration
everything that could go wrong and write up how you would plan to resolve them
so that no one got injured.
Who uses a risk assessment?
The producer is the main person to use a risk assessment as they are the ones who actually produce it. They use it to analyse the risks that may occur within the filming of the film.
Risk Assessment
Hazards:
· Slips and Trips
· Fall down the
stairs
Who might be harmed and how
· Actors and
crew may be injured if they trip over objects or slip on spillages
· Actors and
crew might fall down stairs as filming is in low key lighting – may not see
where they are going
What to do to manage the risk?
· Be careful
with spillages and keep wires and objects out of the way to reduce the risk of
tripping over.
· Have a
handrail on the stairs, or use a extra light so you can see where your going.
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