Health and Saftey

Health and Safety
As part of my film production, I must contemplate health and safety along with risk assessment in film production. Normally under health and safety, the final liability for health and safety is bestowed on the employer concerned in planning the premises and locations. In film production this could be anyone from the producer to the suppliers, meaning health and safety is a crucial consideration.
On an everyday foundation, the producer or producers have overall liability for guarantying and maintaining the definite standards of health and safety. This means that I must ensure that considerations into health and safety and risk assessment are made. This will be done through planning and communication between group members, cast and producers.
In film production, health and safety places a huge financial risk to the production company (through suing and legal punishment) if someone is injured, which means it is a generic, but important business consideration.
What is risk assessment?
Rick assessment is the cautious assessment of the ways people could come to harm, and how they can occur. It is our task to consider and evaluate control and defensive methods which would reduce or remove the harm to any individuals. It is my task to establish several considerable risks included with the production of the film, and whether adequate precautions have been used to reduce all dangers.
An example of a hazard is a thing we can be considered a danger for example broken glass, electricity and high ledges.
Risk is usually considered and classified into three levels of risk: low, medium and high.
How will I evaluate risk assessment?
It will be my task to go to the location and evaluate the risks, and I have set up various steps I will follow to evaluate the risk.
1. Firstly I will look for hazards: I will look at the major hazards and dangers I can find which can cause considerable danger of injury, without analyzing insignificant risks of harm.

2. Secondly I must decide which person is most at risk and how they are at risk. Here I must look at the individuals who are at particular risk and who are affected by the risks.

3. Thirdly I must evaluate the risk. This is where I will consider the risk of which the harm would result in. I will have to judge the severity of the risk and propose the required control measures through; avoiding the risk completely and altering production requirements to meet health and safety; reduce the risk to acceptable standard through training, protective equipment and safety precautions or removing the source of risk completely.

4. Fourthly, it will be my task to record any important conclusions. For example, any crucial findings should be confirmed and specified to the individual or group affected so the necessary precautions can be taken. In action, this requires me to inform any actors, production team or anyone people on set of any risks. I also must be conscious of these risks myself as I will be filming. Moreover I feel it will be important to keep a register of risks on location to remind us of the issues we could be facing.

5. Lastly, I will have to re-examine and modify the risk assessment register. For example, new risks must be modified for any alterations in action, equipment or requirements.