HEALTH AND SAFETY WITHIN THE BBC

Below are some of the Job titles and health and safety obligations we looked at in class.

FREELANCERS.

The BBC relies a great deal on freelancers in program making. This topic gives advice to managers, including producers, on health and safety  issues to address in selecting and managing freelancers. The health and safety essential are:

*  CONTROL

*  CO-OPERATION.

*  COMPETENCE.

The safety issues are important because the freelancers may be unfamiliar with the BBC's health and safety arrangements and requirements. freelancers may also be in charge of work activities, working alongside, or even in control of, our staff, so its vital that they are competent. 

VETTED CONTRACTORS.

This guidance is applicable for productions wishing to add contractors to the BBC's vetted list. The term contractor embraces all those companies and sole traders (freelance workers) providing a service for  BBC productions.

BBC procurements aim is to have a system in place that leads to the selection of monitoring of contractors, who have appropriate standards of occupational risk management which includes health, safety, fire, security and environmental management. The approach which has been adopted is RISK BASED.

Establishing the competence of a contractor with respect to the management of occupational risk is an integral part of procurement process. How detailed the assessment will be, will depend on the type of goods or services the contractor will be providing and the level of associated risk.

INDEPENDENTS AND INDEPENDENT PRODUCTIONS.

The BBC must ensure that all independent production companies they commission have had their health and safety arrangements vetted,  (are safety competent) and provide, and are provided with the information in order to complete work on our behalf.

This guidance outlines the BBC's health and safety vetting procedures for independents. It must be understood and followed by all of those involved in the commissioning process across the BBC in london this is the commissioners and business affairs managers, in the nations and regions it also includes commissioning editors, executive producers, and business executives. Most of the actions will need to be carried out by the business affairs mangers or their equivalent in the nations and regions.

CHILDREN, YOUNG PERSONS & WORK EXPERIENCE.

These guidelines are aimed at those involving children in programmme making as actors , participants, and audience. Where a child is involved in our work the risk assessment for the activity must take account of their particular health, safety, & welfare requirements.

For the times when children visit us at open days and for tours use the principles set out for supervising groups. 

Children must be regarded as at particular risk. They are often curious, have a limited sense of danger and can react in different ways in an emergency. we can never assume that a place which is safe for an adult will be safe for a child.

EVENTS.

All types of events the BBC is involved in as organizers, host broadcasters, rights holding broadcasters or simply covering someone else's event. Advice on planning and managing all event safety issues from early conceptual planning stage through to location recces and event responsibilities to post event wash up.

LINK:

WWW.BBC.ORG.UK/OHSS/MAIN.ASPPAGE4561.HTM