TV and Film Safety

"common sense is learned through experience"

Photographs from 'Bon Voyage' by Stray Cat Motion Pictures, written, produced and directed by Neil Mac. Starring: Gray O’Brien and Jenny Ryan.

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Services

Whether for drama, entertainment, factual, news, children's or music production, a workshop, studio or office - help and assistance on health and safety issues can be found here. Call us to discuss your needs.

Safety Advice

1. How to find your way through the minefield of health, safety, environmental and disability discrimination legislation
2. How to apply safe working practices and avoid loss of time and money avoiding accidents in general work, including:
   • Working at height - scaffolds, roofs, cliffs etc.
   • Safety on water - boats, diving etc.
   • Mountains and wilderness areas - climbing, high altitude, extreme weather etc.
   • Working on and around vehicles - tracking cars, racing circuits, motorbikes etc.
   • Putting on an event - pop concert, street fair or a military tattoo
   • Safety in workshops
   • Location and recce safety assessment
   • Personal safety/security
3. How to deal with short notice assignments for news gatherers/journalists/deployers/editors

Health and Safety Policies

Every employer must have a health and safety policy and if there are five or more employees, it must be written down. Most productions employ more than five persons during a production and therefore have to have a policy document. Action Media Safety will write or review your safety policy and help you to implement it.

Training Courses

Health and safety is just common sense they say! Yes - but common sense is learned through experience and we don't all get the same experiences. Not all hazards or how to avoid them are commonly understood so best to learn from someone else's mistakes than your own - that's where training comes in. Those who have attended adequate safety training are much less likely to have or cause an accident. A variety of courses are provided. See our Training Courses page.

Risk Assessments

Most people know that the law requires all work carried out to be risk-assessed and that all significant risks be recorded, but many do not feel confident nor know what should happen after the assessment is done. You can either choose to be specifically trained or take advantage of our risk assessment advice. The following are some examples: Workplace/workshop; Film/TV Production; Fire Risk; Display Screen Equipment; Manual Handling.