Risk assessment

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.

What a risk assessment looks like:

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.

What risks we may come across

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 filmng 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.