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Make sure your own actions at work reduce risks to health and safety
- Identify the processes and tasks from your job, and what knowledge is required to carry them out competently and safely
- Use equipment, materials and products safely, following relevant instructions and legal requirements – in any setting
- Check that your personal presentation and behaviour on production or at work protects everyone’s health and safety, meets any legal responsibilities and follows workplace instructions
- Identify working practices or health and safety factors in your job or workplace which may harm you or others, including mental wellbeing – and which are the highest risk
- Be alert to deal with hazards or risks following the instructions and legal requirements provided on production or in your office
- Control those health and safety risks that you are able to, and are responsible for from a risk assessment, passing on suggestions for reducing risks to those people responsible for health and safety
- Ask for help, or ask questions, whenever you are uncertain about how to carry out a task or what is required to operate safely
- Name and locate people responsible for health and safety on your production or in your office who you should report matters to
- The relevance of workplace health and safety to everyone’s day to day practice, on all size, type and location of productions
- Health & safety instructions, protocols, standards, permissions, conventions for where you work; any other people, departments, or processes involved; and how the other people involved do their jobs
- The layout of the production or office and how different locations and facilities are referred to
- Typical hazards and risks which exist on a production, at work or on location (especially in particular roles) – and how these vary by types of genre or sector
- Your responsibilities and legal duties for health and safety in your job on a production or at work – potentially including safeguarding
- Your responsibility to control risks (as part of risk assessment), and how to manage risks which you are unable to deal with
- Where, when and how to ask for additional health & safety assistance
- How to reduce risks of Covid-19 or other respiratory diseases
Advanced: carry out health and safety risk assessments of a workplace
- Use appropriate techniques to identify hazards and evaluate risks in risk assessments, prioritising areas with potential for serious harm to health
- Put appropriate precautions in place within a risk assessment
- Present results and practical recommendations from risk assessments to those people responsible for health and safety
- Maintain suitable records of risk assessments, and review and revise them following standard practice
- Ensure that you and/or your team are then working in compliance with risk assessments and relevant health and safety legislation
- Take suitable action to control or remove imminent risks, and consider and prioritise where further controls are required
- The person responsible/accountable for carrying out risk assessments, and who is able to provide guidance and advice
- Your health and safety responsibilities with regard to other people
- Work areas and work activities of people (including cast, contributors, general public and/or audience) you are carrying out assessments for
- Relevant legal requirements and standards, including safeguarding
- Workplace hazards most likely to cause harm or loss (including Covid-19, hazards that can impact mental health or wellbeing, or hazards on location), and the importance of remaining alert to them
- The purpose, legal implications and importance of carrying out risk assessments, and what to do with the results
- Techniques, resources and information for carrying out risk assessments, including identifying hazards, risks, control measures
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