Health and Safety Checks
Due to the dangers of flying bars, props, cables and more. We had to create a Risk assessment. A risk assessment is a process of evaluating the potential risks of a location and the dangers of its environment.
Risk assessments are assessments a crew completes to identify the dangers of a workplace and allows them to take measures to avoid being injured. In a risk assessment, you identify hazards and risk factors that have a potential to cause harm, analyse and evaluate each danger and put measures in place to protect the crew from hurting themselves. Risk assessments are important as they allow a crew to identify and understand the risks and dangers of a workplace so that they can take active measures to avoid being injured, such as wearing hard hats in dangerous areas, using protective goggles or masks when needed and wearing steel toe capped boots on site. For example, the risk assessment we had for the Escape room, was that the bars on the stage were having fixtures rigged on them, meaning bars were being flown in and out and had heavy lights on them, either bar or fixture could potentially fall and injure someone, so we wore steel toe capped boots and hard hats to protect ourselves.
Here is an example of steel toe capped boots and hard hat.
The production management team put together a risk assessment for the escape room project, this was to make the crew aware of any risks that could cause injury. The risks for set where falling pieces of set or collapsing set, and any set related issues. I think that the production management narrowed this down well, as there was not much set and falling set was the only real risk with the lack of materials we used.
