Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Aim: To construct a health and safety assessment of one or more photo shoots i will be conducting for my magazine considerding all possible eventualities

Key skills:
  • Proffessional responsibility
  • Applying my knowledge of professional practices
  • Showing forethought and evidence of planning an event
  • Using the oppotunity to research independently for my indidividual situaition/s

TUC- Trades Union Congress
The Health and Safety at Work act 1974
  • Had to be followed by all employers/authorities responsible for workers in UK
  • A H&S commission was created
It protected people against risks to H&S in terms of
  • Dangerous substances/materials
  • Maintenances of systems
  • Provision of insruction and training
  • Working enviroments
  • Sllowing unions the right to create reps to enforce it
  • Inspectors could gain access to work places
NUJ- National union of Journalists
NUJS H&S Concerns
  • Bullying
  • Stress
  • Repetitive strain injury (RSI)
  • Public order situations
  • Conflict zones
  • Exiled Journalists
What types of risks may there be in a photo shoot?
  • Falling off an object when trying to gain height for a picture
  • A model may be prone to epilepsy so becareful of light senseivity
  • A cup of water or any liquid substance could spill onto the lighting wires and the lines connected to the laptop/computers.
  • Tripping over wire thats on the floor
  • Equiptment blocking the fire exit
  • If for an image the room is dark the wires may not be visible
  • Risk of fire-electiricty such as lighting could cause this
  • Dropping camera/probs/equiptment on people
  • Make sure adequate lighting is in place
  • Outdoor safety in urban enviroments 
  • Electrocution- water near electricity
Hazard- Anything that can cause them harm (eg a chemical electricity, ladders etc)
Risk- How great the chance that someone will be harmed by a hazard

Assessing the risk
The likely effect of a hazard may for example be rated:

Major-
 Death or major injury or illness causing long term disability

Serious-
Injuries or illness casuing short-term disability

Slight-
All other injuries or illnesses

The likelihood of harm may be rated:

High-
Where it is certain that harm will occur

Medium-
Where harm will occur

Low-
Where harm will seldom occur

Risk = Severity of harm x Likelihood of occurance
This sum gives you a risk value of 1-9 allowing a comparrison of risks
1= High risk       9= Low risk

What are the main hazards within the location of your photo-shoot?
  • Wires on the floor
  • Chairs in and around where you would take images
  • The boxes on the floor as you enter the room
  • Fires
  • Electric faults
  • Water leaking on electrics
  • Someone suffering from epilepsy
What do you need to find out about your venue? How will you investigate?

Before I go ahead with my photo shoot I will need to check my venue to make sure the venue is up to health and safety standards. I will need to make sure all paths are clear with no boxes blocking any emergency roots, I will need to make sure they are also not in the way of where people will walk so no one will trip or fall over any objects. When taking the picture I will need to make sure there is room around me to move around to get different angled images, if paths are not clear I may fall or walk in to things and injure myself. I will need to make sure all fire exits are clear in case of emergency. Also I will need to make sure all wires are visible in safe areas so people don't trip on things when walking across the studio. I will investigate all this by checking out the studio and seeing all potential risks and thinking of ways I can fully minimise the risks.

What do I need to take pictures of there? And when?
I need to take pictures of my band/solo artist when I have found people that will suit the type of pictures I need, this will take 10 minutes

Version 1- Risk Assessment
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0xmKLQ2PkIRMXI2Qm9KRVVodGc/edit?usp=sharing





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  1. Miss C8 January 2014 at 12:44

    Whilst you are following procedure using this form effectively and offering ideas which are mostly appropriate, you are lacking detail. To improve, you need to prove real evidence of research in terms of official procedure in that location and using your initiative to find out more about current controls in place by that establishment. Don’t forget on your blog you also need to submit images of the location on the same post, so that you can illustrate what you’re discussing.

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