Training

Health & Safety Training

Every event organisation, or television production team needs to ensure that their employees, contractors or freelancers have, or are provided with, adequate health and safety training and information. When people are competently trained in hazard identification, have effective communication skills and can behave safely, the less likely an injury or accident will happen at work.

Courses available:

• Basic Introduction to Health and Safety
• Event safety
• First Aid - Appointed person
• Health and safety induction - for new or young employees.
• Working at height – Basic and advanced levels.
• Specialist – ‘Safe Shooting’ for camera crews and production teams
• Manual Handling
• Display Screen Equipment – Postural Awareness & Workstation Assessment
• Bespoke training program

Courses will include:

Legal Requirements: Health and Safety legislation is extensive and it creates rights and obligations for the employers, employees, & visitors.

Hazard Identification & Risk Assessments: Every event organisation, production company and self-employed person is legally required to make a “suitable and sufficient” assessment of workplace risks. Where the employer employs five or more people they must record the significant findings of the assessment.

Location Safety: Production teams must put into place adequate procedures to control all foreseeable risks, while on location or in the studio. The risks may be to employees, contractors, visitors or members of the public.

Emergency Procedures: Safe access and egress, first aid, fire-fighting arrangements, liaising with the emergency services are some of the key areas which must have effective planning and organization depending on the size for the activity.

Regulation 13 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 states “Every employer shall ensure that his employees are provided with adequate health and safety training”.

Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health

Member of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management

Course Example

Safe Shooting

In this present TV culture of cut backs, longer working hours, reduced crewing (in production as well as technical areas) ‘Safe Shooting’ will instruct camera crews and production teams how to achieve a more positive proactive approach to safety.

Safe Shooting course outline:

• Framework of health & safety law
• Roles and responsibilities and negligence
• Risk assessments with classroom exercises
• Electrical safety
• Working time
• Manual handling
• Driving to and from location
• Filming with vehicles
• Location logistics
• Working at height
• First aid and accident reporting
• Changing the schedule! The implications!
• Legal case exercises

Safe Shooting is about all of us, working safely, and caring for the safety of our colleagues, and everyone else we come into contact with. We must recognise our responsibility and be confident to intervene when we observe unsafe behaviour or conditions.

If you are interested in any safety courses for events or television productions please contact Guy today and let him take care of all your training requirements. For more information call 07831 614499 or use the enquiry form to get in touch.