Health and Safety
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H&S can get over looked on documentary productions but it's a really important area. No one wants anyone to get injured making a film and no one want to get sued for negligence, so listen up. It's really easy to get carried away making a film, getting the shot you want and to forget to assess the risk. Looking through the view finder can make it easy to forget that climbing ladders, crossing railway tracks and leaning out of car windows carry additional risk.
Responsibility for others
Under health and safety legislation, the ultimate responsibility for health and safety lies with the employer involved and the organisations in control of premises and facilities. In the film industry this may be the investor/client, producer, production company, contractor, designer, supplier, facilities company, studio or YOU.
The law says that producers should ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that persons working with and for them are not exposed to risks to their health and safety. An example of what may be considered reasonably practicable would be if location filming was taking place in a factory with poor lighting and dangerous equipment. It would be appropriate to ensure that extra lighting best weight loss is used and that all sharp or otherwise hazardous equipment is made safe.
You should have at least one experienced member of the crew who is aware of health and safety issues and who is capable of filling out a health and safety assessment of individual shoots (eg an underwater shoot) or the whole production (a film about organised crime or in a remote area).
Bear in mind that even if you are not paying people to collaborate with you, you still have a legal responsibility to their health and safety if you are issuing instructions to them.
Insurance
If you are employing other people who are working on location, you really need to be insured. It's their right to know that if they get hurt whilst making your film, they will be covered weight loss supplements. There are lots of companies specialising in film insurance such as Media Insurance.
Hostile Environments
Documentaries take us to dangerous places - post conflict zones, disaster regions, unstable political environments, places where kidnap and ransom are common etc. - no deposit casinos You shouldn't be going unless you have
1) got insurance. If they won't insure you, that's a sign that maybe you shouldn't be going. There are some countries that you won't get insured for at any particular time, usually those that the Foreign Office travel advice site advises against visiting.
2) done Hostile Environment Training - most insurances companies require this anyway.
3) talked to people with recent first hand experience of traveling and filming in the region
4) filled out a risk minimisation strategy plan - this includes working out escape routes, nearest hospitals, embassy numbers etc in advance as well as a plan for checking in at planned intervals with your point person in the UK.