Risk Assessment - Miss Georgiou

It is extremely important to consider all risks to group members before we start to film. We have drawn guidelines so that any serious injury can be prevented and therefore leading to further complications not planned for. It is professional to do this as this is the process that all major production companies follow before they go to film. As a group we collaborated together to brainstorm ideas that we felt were necessary to prevent any risks occurred to any members of the group, we mainly focused on locations specifics and then brought them together as one overall health and safety rules package.

I felt that we followed the guidelines very strictly, this is due to the fact that we wanted to prevent any injure to all members of the group and the only way to do this was to follow the guidelines we had set out. We said that if any one of the criteria failed that we would not filming at that particular part of the location and would search for one that would give us the shots that we required and was suitable under the guidelines, we also always had one member at least with the camera and they were never more than a couple of feet away from it to ensure that damage or it being stole was prevented.
The Risk Assessment does not prevent any injures occurring but it makes the occurrence less likely than prior if we had not made one. In addition we also had at all times a health and safety kit just encase someone had been injured so we could attempt to help or cover up any wounds or cuts from bleeding.

To concluded I feel that our risk assessment was highly beneficial to the group and due to its clear and strict guidelines it was highly successful in preventing an injury or serious accidents happening to any group member. We also encounter a risk that were not on the rules followed this is that we were quite close to or risk of falling onto train tracks while filming. We decided that the principles for the water risk rules would apply the same for this also. We would film a minimum of 3 metres and make sure the surface is not wet. On one shot we had to break this rule. But we appended it my making a member of the group hold the other that was filming. They also had to lean back so that if the person fell they would fall way from the tracks and not onto them.

This is the risk assessment that we followed.