Risk Assessment - Miss Georgiou

My Risk Assessment 

A risk assessment is simply an examination of what, in your work could cause harm to people or the workers. The purpose of a risk assessment is to iron out all the potential hazards and risks that could happen and what you can do to prevent it in order to work in a healthy and safety work place. 

The importance of a risk assessment is to inform me and my colleagues what potential risks could occur whilst filming our opening thriller sequence. The risk assessment will provide us with the efficient knowledge of what hazards could happen and how we can prevent them to stay safe whilst creating our thriller. If I was not to have a risk assessment, me and my group members will not be fully aware of the possible hazards that can occur within making our sequence, so it'll be dangerous because we would not know how to prevent them. An example of a hazard that could happen whilst filming our thriller would be to be careful of the roads as the antagonist lays there most of the time. What we thought that could prevent this potential risk was to have a person look out for the cars whilst filming the road scenes so that we are fully aware that the roads a clear and safe to film on. 

When filming the road scenes, where the antagonist lays in the middle of it, we knew that this would be a risk as cars may come and pass by. To prevent from any of us being harmed or not aware that theres a car coming, we had a friend who kindly came along to help with us and have her watch out at the end of the road to see whether cars are coming or not. The risk of being ran over or having drivers speak to us about what we were doing was easily avoided by having someone look out for the incoming cars coming on the road. 

Another risk we came across whilst filming which wasn't on the list was being aware of what was in the forest, because it was night time we were all not fully aware of what was in there. When it came to filming the forest scenes, we prevented not being aware of our surroundings by having a few people light up torches so that we could see what we were doing and what was around us. 

The risk of the weather being wet or unsuitable for our film was avoided as when we were filming it did not rain, however the ground was muddy and quite slippery. We all avoided this by wearing the correct footwear to walk on whilst being in the forest. Also to prepare for any wet weather we carried around an umbrella so that we could continue filming whilst being dry. 

In conclusion, the risk assessment helped us with filming as it provided us with a guideline of all the possible hazards that could occur when we were filming and how we could avoid them. Moreover, the risk assessment prepared us for what was to come when filming and helped us be aware of all the risks we could come across.