Health & Safety

As I am creating something with other people in it, I am solely responsible for what goes on therefore I will need strict health and safety procedures and to carry out a risk assessment. Risk assessments are very important as they are a fundamental part to help create awareness of hazards and risk and identify who may be at risk in a situation

Lights : With many lights around there will be numerous of things in the way. Also with the lights being on for a long duration, they will be rather hot. This means I will need to make sure no one touches them as they may hurt when touching and even worse cause burns so these could be a problem. Also with the lights being on for so long, it will get very hot in the studio. If I am filming for long periods of time I will need to make sure me and any models will need to have breaks as the heat could cause problems and make people feel a bit fake. I will have to make sure to keep everyone dehydrated, however this cannot be near the lights so fresh air breaks will be needed.


Electrical Cables : Electrical cables are a huge hazard when filming as these can be trip hazards. These are a crucial hazard that I need to be careful of as they can become caught on corners and can stick up making them easier to trip on. Also if they do stick up and someone does trip this can cause the lights to fall and causing more hazards and they could then fall on someone and cause serious damage. I therefore will need to carry out serious checks to make sure there is no possibility of any trip hazards.


Paint : For one of my ideas paint is a key feature as I need it to be coming from my models eyes. This can be very dangerous as if it is not the right kind of paint and it goes in the models eyes it can cause serious damage. For this I will have to make sure that I am using the correct kind on paint that will not cause irritation on the skin but also that the pain will go no where near the eye. I may need to rethink this idea through in order to cause no harm.