risk assessment

Risk assessment

What is a risk assessment?

Risk assessment is a document which must attend any filming and recce schedule. This makes sure the person responsible when on location has considered the safety of everyone involved in the filming from the contributor, the crew to the general public. They need to think through the filming day and consider what the potential hazards are, what injury could result from this hazard and how the risk can be reduced or avoided.

The risk assessment should be structured and applied so as to help everyone to:

• Check whether the measures in place are adequate
• Evaluate the risks in order to make the best informed selection of work equipment, chemical substances or preparations used the fitting out of the workplace, and the organisation of work.

The producer is responsible for ensuring that risk assessments are completed for their productions. In practice, they may delegate risk assessment to other people, such as production managers, designers, heads of departments, the location manager or the unit manager.

In this case, the producer must ensure that:

• The person delegated is competent to perform the assessment, if necessary, by providing training in risk assessment procedures or other aspects of health and safety
• The assessment is carried out
• Necessary controls are implemented effectively throughout the production
• The assessment is reviewed where changes or new circumstances have made the original assessment no longer valid.

What are the hazards?	Who might be harmed and how?	How do you prevent it?	Action by whom?	Action by when?	Done
Slips and trips	The camera-person, the actor/actress may be injured if they trip over objects.	Make sure nothing is on the floor, excepts props that needed	all student	27.10.14	done
Prop- knife	As one of the actors will have to hold a knife, he may cut himself with it.	By informing the actor how to hold the knife correctly, never touch the knife without our permission	all student	27.10.14	done
Time rushing (rushing to finish is when hazards get missed, or people start taking risks)	If the cameraman rushes to finish filming then the quality of the videos may be rubbish and we won’t get the videos that we wanted and it is waste of time to go back to the location again, where we could use that time to edit the videos.	The cameraman needs to film the same scenes more than once, to make sure that every scene is right	all student	27.10.14	done
Precarious(shots from high up or near the edge of something)	To be able to get a high angle shot, the cameraman needs to be up high to get a proper shot. To be near the edge, the cameraman can get caught by a sharp edge and he may be injured.	the runner needs to make sure that there is nothing dangerous in the scenes	all student	27.10.14	done