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:
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Check
whether the measures in place are adequate
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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
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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new circumstances have made the original assessment no longer valid.
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What are
the hazards?
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Who might
be harmed and how?
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How do
you prevent it?
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Action by
whom?
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Action by
when?
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Done
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Slips and
trips
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The camera-person,
the actor/actress may be injured if they trip over objects.
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Make sure
nothing is on the floor, excepts props that needed
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all student
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27.10.14
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done
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Prop- knife
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As one of
the actors will have to hold a knife, he may cut himself with it.
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By informing the
actor how to hold the knife correctly, never touch the knife without our
permission
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all student
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27.10.14
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done
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Time rushing
(rushing to finish is when hazards get missed, or people start taking risks)
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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.
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The
cameraman needs to film the same scenes more than once, to make sure that
every scene is right
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all student
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27.10.14
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done
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Precarious(shots
from high up or near the edge of something)
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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.
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the runner
needs to make sure that there is nothing dangerous in the scenes
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all student
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27.10.14
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done
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