Risk Assessment Explained

Risk Assessment

What is a Risk Assessment?:
When you are filming you have to make sure that you don't have any danger's during the filming and even when you  backstage getting ready and the way to stop that from happening is to get a risk assessment, what that does is stop any sort or danger by listing anything that could happen during the time you are filming or backstage and seeing how you can stop that from actually happening.

Why it is important:
A risk assessment is important because, for example, if your actor or crew member (most likely a cameraman) trips over a wire that is connected to a boom mic and hurts themselves then that person will not being able to carry on which means you wont have that actor or that crew member for the day or even the entire filming stage.

How to tell if its risking:
When You find a risk and write it down firstly, you put if Negligible (probably Acceptable), Low Risk (Action May Be required), Moderate (Programme for action), Severe (High Priority), Very Severe (Take immediate action). After that you then put how likely it is by either putting Very Unlikely, Unlikely, Possible, Likely, Very Likely. Lastly you then check the Risk Factor Grid to check what priority number it is (1 to 5).

What is the Risk Factor Grid:
This is an Example of what the grid looks like:

	Very Unlikely	Unlikely	Possible	Likely	Very Likely
Very severe	3	4	4	5	5
Severe	2	3	3	3	5
Moderate	2	2	3	3	3
Low Risk	1	2	2	3	3
Negligible	1	1	2	2	3

The Risk Factor Grid is a grid that calculates how risky something is when filming, this will then determine if it is something you have to look out for or something that will not be that much of a bother.

If the number of the risk 1 to 2 then you don't really have to worry that, if it is 3 to 5 then you have to take priority that it doesn't happen.