Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop safety plans
- Analyse and discuss findings and recommendations of draft pre-production safety reports with relevant personnel
- From safety reports, identify priority actions and personnel and materials required for screen productions
- Distribute final version of pre-production safety reports and communicate key findings to relevant personnel and organisations prior to commencement of filming
- Identify specific safety personnel and skills sets required for screen production activity
- Sequence production activities for effectiveness and efficiency, based on safety report and production schedule requirements
- Recruit and roster specialist personnel and seek other specialist advice as required in line with pre-production safety reports
- Ensure relevant personnel prepare action plans for hazardous sequences that comply with all codes, guidelines and procedures
- Coordinate and participate in all location surveys to ensure production complies with recommended industry safety codes
- Document safety plans in line with enterprise procedures, ensuring that all recommendations from pre-production safety reports have been addressed
- Oversee safety aspects of production set-up
- Confirm approval of hazardous sequences with relevant authorities prior to their execution
- Distribute all plans, procedures and approvals to relevant personnel via daily call sheets
- Ensure that all equipment, props, crew vehicles and their operators, and maintenance personnel meet licensing and regulatory requirements
- Confirm that relevant personnel understand procedures for dealing with faulty or inappropriate production equipment, and requirements for wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) clothing
- Coordinate safety and operational briefings by relevant personnel
- Complete production documentation as required and according to enterprise procedures
- Organise medical and emergency services
- From safety reports, establish medical services that may be required during productions in the event of accident or illness
- Arrange for the provision of in- and out-of-hours medical services by qualified medical practitioners accessible to production locations
- Recruit and roster registered nurses or other medical personnel required for filming hazardous sequences
- Book and coordinate the supply of emergency services personnel required for any hazardous sequences or remote location activity
- Provide adequate and accessible first aid equipment and ensure all personnel are aware of its location
- Monitor the safe execution of productions
- Provide required safety briefings to relevant personnel involved in productions and ensure that communication methods, chain of command and emergency procedures are fully understood
- Identify safety and security hazards and eliminate, isolate or minimise risk throughout productions
- Clear production areas of non-essential personnel whenever possible
- Monitor health and safety conditions throughout productions to assess risks to safety and to ensure that all OHS procedures are being observed
- Supervise safe execution of all aspects of any hazardous sequences
- Cancel the execution of productions where unacceptable risks are identified and clearly document and communicate this to relevant personnel
- React to emergency situations
- Recognise hazardous situations and abort productions as required
- Implement emergency plans as required
- Ensure that first aid is provided to injured personnel and that emergency services are contacted to provide professional assistance as required
- Where possible, clear sites of items that may cause further accident or injury according to safety plans
- Complete detailed reports documenting incidents according to enterprise and legal requirements of relevant authorities