Health and Safety

In order to safely film everything for our documentary, we will need to identify potential health and safety risks, and with this we will need to assess how we will address these issues and prevent them from happening.
Since we aren't doing much filming outdoors, most of the precautions we will need to do will be based indoors. Potential issues arising with health and safety could be around there being food containing nuts if there is anyone who is allergic to nuts in our interviews or in the places we are filming. In order to avoid this, we will advise everyone involved within our filming not to consume foods containing nuts when filming product. Another health risk to address is the risk of falling over when filming when outdoors because it may have rained and therefore we will need people to be cautious when filming, especially if carrying heavy camera equipment something bad could potentially happen. To avoid this, we will only walk outdoors where we deem it dry and safe, and we will balance out all the camera equipment between me and Sophie so neither of us will be carrying a lot to be strenuous.
Another potential health and safety hazard is wires when filming the interviews in Sophie's house because things may need charging or connecting up to other things. To avoid people tripping over these wires, we can push them away to the side and pre-warn any of our interviewees and make sure they are in the knowledge that there is a potential tripping hazard where people could hurt themselves.
As a lot of our filming is going to be inside shopping centres and in Sophie's house, we will need to be careful about the public and their unpredictability. To avoid upsetting anyone when filming, we will ask before including them in filming and this means we can include their filming without knowing people are unaware their faces are being used in a documentary.
Overall, there are not a lot of safety and health risks when filming and editing our documentary because a lot of places we are filming in are seen as what we view as safe places because they are warm and dry on the inside, and they are public so safe to film so we will have permission to film there. Outdoors places we will film such as Bicester Village, and we will just need to be careful that we film on a day that it isn't forecast to rain and it hasn't already rained so we don't fall over with expensive camera equipment and damage both ourselves and the camera equipment we are filming with because we are borrowing provisions from school.