Thursday, March 12, 2015

High Profile Accidents on Set

Accident reports are always hard to read.  I stopped my feed of accident reports from the Army because I grew tired of reading about young Soldiers on motorcycles killing themselves. There seems to be an upswing of accidents on film sets. The LA Times has done an outstanding job of reporting on them as well as followup.  Here is their Story Gallery:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-hollywood-safety-sg-storygallery.html

On March 18 at 1:00PM the USITT Health and Safety Commission will be sponsoring a workshop on inspections and risk assessments.

Identifying hazards is the first step in reducing your risk and eliminating (or at least mitigating) hazards.