Risk Assessment Task 10

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
Having a system for managing health and safety
Assessing and manage risks and
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
Road

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 slip and fall into the road

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.
Stay away from the edge of the path and avoid any objects that you could trip over