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1. Live Event Technical Production Sector

2. Safety Welfare and Information
Fire Alarms, Tests
and Evacuation
Mobile Phones
First Aid
Breaks and
Refreshments
Welfare
Facilities

3. Overview
• Module 1 – Organising for Safety
• Module 2 – Workplace Safety
• Module 3 – Work Equipment
• Module 4 – Noise and Health
• Module 5 – Procedures
• Module 6 –Environment Hazards.

4. Module 1
Organising for Safety

5. Module 1 - Organising for Safety
• CDM Regulations and
responsibilities
• Overview of key health and safety
Law
• Responsibilities of employer/
employee/self-employed
• Hazard and risk
• Risk assessment
• Powers of the enforcing authority.

6. Project under CDM 2015 – specific roles for the:
• ‘Client’
• ‘Designer’
• ‘Principle Designer’
• ‘Principal Contractor’
Key Information sources:
• Construction Phase Plan
• Health and Safety plan and file
Construction Design and Management(CDM) 2015

7. Key Health and Safety Law
Why have Health and Safety Law?
Health and Safety Law:
• Provides a framework of enforceable rules
• Requires safe working conditions
• Imposes duties on your employer, you and others
• Provides guidance notes to help you
It makes sure that safety is everybody’s business.

8. Health and Safety Law is made up of:
•Criminal law
•Civil law
Under the Civil Law we all have a Duty of Care to everyone.
You must take reasonable care to avoid any foreseeable
acts/omissions which may injure someone or damage their
property
•Criminal law – fines, imprisonment
•Civil law – compensation.
Overview of Key Health and Safety Law

9. Overview of Key Health and Safety Law
What is negligence:
Not doing something which a reasonable person
would do such as not warning another person of
danger
or
Doing something which a reasonable person would
not do such as exposing someone to unnecessary
danger.

10. Employers’ Responsibilities
What is your employer responsible for?
The duty of an employer is to ensure the health,
safety and welfare of employees while at work
The employer also has a responsibility of all other
persons affected by their undertaking.

11. Safe plant and
equipment
Competent persons
Safe system of
work
Safe place
of work
Operated
by
Drawn up
by
Operated using
Principles of a Safe Place of Work

12. What are you responsible for?...
To work safely
Employees Responsibilities
Your duty as an employee is to work safely and
co-operate with your employer.

13. Responsibilities of the self employed
Self-employed have the responsibilities of both
employer and employee as they employ themselves
It is your responsibility to provide your own insurance,
training and PPE if you are self employed.

14. Protecting the public is a legal requirement
while at work.

15. Enforcing Authority
The Enforcing Authority could be either:
• HSE
• Local Authority

16. Depending on what they find they may:
• Do nothing
• Give verbal or written warning
• Issue an Improvement or Prohibition notice
• Institute criminal proceedings
Your attitude may affect their decision.
Enforcing Authority – Powers and Duties
The Enforcing Authorities have a:
• Right to enter premises, measure and record data
• Right to investigate and seize evidence

17. After the investigation – Financial Penalties
• Man run over by fork lift whilst laying on grass during
Edinburgh Festival build. Marquee company fined £5000
• Mortar tubes fell over during fireworks at Westlife Show in
Ipswich, firing shells into crowd. Fireworks company fined
£6000
• Venue fire kills 100 and leaves 200 injured. Venue owners
and band tour manager charged with manslaughter.
• Rigger falls from London venue roof space to his death.
Venue and rigging company fined a total of £100k
• Workshop technician injures back lifting a chain hoist
motor from flight case. Employers fined £30k + costs.

18. Suspended sentence for scaffolder
A 28-year-old scaffolder spotted without a harness has been handed a suspended
prison sentence and community service.
Greater Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 30 June 2017, Terrance
Murray was spotted erecting scaffold in an unsafe manner by a concerned
member of the public.
Photographs were taken of Murray standing on top of the scaffold in Quay Street,
Manchester, with no edge protection and no harness attached to any part of the
scaffold or building.
The fall height was estimated at between 13 and 18 metres.
If he had fallen from this height into the concrete deck of the car park below there
is a high probability that he would have sustained fatal injuries.
An HSE investigation found that Murray’s employers had taken reasonable steps
to avoid working unsafely at height.
Murray was well trained and experienced, and had the correct equipment
available to him in order to work safely. He acted alone against his better interest
and training to work without edge protection and safety measures in place.
Murray was also accompanied by a trainee scaffolder at the time and so was
setting an unsafe example. Terrance Murray of Blackburn pleaded guilty to safety
breaches and was sentenced to 26 weeks in prison, suspended for one year and
100 hours of community service. He was also ordered to pay costs of £500 and a
victim surcharge of £115.

19. Suspended sentence and electronic tag for scaffolder who abused
HSE inspector
5 July 2018
A scaffolder who verbally abused a Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
inspector after she tried to stop him working unsafely has been given a
suspended jail sentence and must wear an electronic monitoring tag.
During a site inspection on 19 August 2016 the inspector warned Steven
Connolly that he was at risk of falling from scaffolding in Chartham, Kent.
Medway Magistrates’ Court was told that Connolly refused to erect the
scaffolding safely and subjected the inspector to a “torrent of abuse”.
He then walked away from the scaffold without warning other workers it was
incomplete and dangerous.
Connolly pleaded guilty to breaching regs 6(3) and 8(a) of the Work at Height
Regulations, which cover preventing falls from a distance and the need for
guard rails or toe boards respectively.
He was sentenced to 24 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months. He was
also ordered to wear an electronic tag and cannot leave his home in Lower
Kingswood, Surrey, between 9am and 5pm. He must pay costs of £2,000.

20. Pier collapse at Spanish Music Festival

21. Hazard
Something with the potential to cause harm
Risk
The likelihood that harm will occur and the
seriousness of its consequences
Hazards and Hazardous Activities
May be identified from accident/incident reports,
inspections or audits.
Hazard and Risk
Controls
Methods of removing / controlling or
reducing risk

22. Step 2 Decide who might be harmed and how
Step 3
Evaluate the risks and decide whether
existing precautions are adequate or
more should be done
Step 4 Record your findings
Step 5
Review your assessment
regularly and revise when
required.
5 Steps to Risk Assessment
Step 1 Identify hazards

23. Hierarchy of Risk Control
1. Elimination
2. Substitution
3. Engineering Controls
4. Administrative Controls
5. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

24. COST
RISK
Cost/Risk Balance

25. Module Exercise – spot the hazards

26. • Overview of key health and safety law
• Responsibilities of employer/employee/self –employed
• Powers of the enforcing authority
• Hazard and risk
• Risk assessment.
Summary

27. Module 2
Workplace Safety

28. Module 2 - Workplace Safety
• Safe access and egress
• Safety signs
• Slips and trips
• Safe work at height
• Safety culture and your attitude
• Welfare facilities.

29. Duties of employers to provide safe access/egress for:
• Employees
• Business persons
• Contractors
• General public
• Emergency services
Access and Egress must be kept clear at all times.
Safe Access and Egress

30. • Permanent passes (photograph, bar coded)
• Worn on site; surrendered on exit
• Valid for specific period
• Issue, validity or loss recorded
• Checked at entrance/exit
• Used to assist emergency evacuation procedure.
Access Control

31. • General safety procedures
• Specific hazards and risks (e.g. working at height)
• Welfare facilities (Toilets, drinking water, shelter etc)
• Where to find First Aid
• Fire/emergency evacuation procedures
- Raising the alarm, means of escape and location of
assembly points
• How to seek advice and assistance
• Rules for vehicles.
Site and Venue Inductions

32. Tool Box Talks
• A Toolbox Talk is an informal safety meeting that focuses on safety topics
related to the specific job, such as workplace hazards and safe work
practices. Meetings are normally short in duration and are generally
conducted at the job site prior to the commencement of a job or work shift.
• It is one of the very effective methods to refresh workers' knowledge, cover
last minute safety checks, and exchange information with the experienced
workers.
• Toolbox Talks are also intended to facilitate health and safety discussions on
the job site and promote your organization’s safety culture.
• Toolbox talks/meetings are sometimes referred to as tailgate meetings or
safety briefings.
• A toolbox talk may be a good way of addressing a reoccurring health and
safety issue, near miss, incident or upcoming changes to regulations and
standards.

33. Safety Signs
Prohibition Mandatory
Warning
Information Fire Equipment

34. Most slips occur in wet or
contaminated conditions
One slip/trip accident happens every 3 minutes
in the UK alone.
Most trips are due to poor
housekeeping/contamination
Slips and Trips

35. ‘How safe is this
work place?’
‘A tidy work place is
usually a safe work place’
Good Housekeeping
Tidy up as you go – Don’t wait until the job is finished.

36. Slips and trips can be reduced by:
• Management of spillages/cleaning regimes
• Design of workplace and work activities
• Better housekeeping
• Effective training and supervision
• Choice of suitable footwear
• Appropriate flooring, e.g. matting systems
• Lighting should be suitable and sufficient for
the work area.
Reducing Slips and Trips

37. Defined as: Any height
where a fall can cause
injury.
Work at Height
What is work at height?

38. Controlling Work at Height
• Avoid working at height if you possibly can
• Collective measures should be used over personal
measures
• If you can’t, there are rules that MUST be followed by
you and your employer
• A risk assessment must be undertaken for all work
at height.

39. Work at Height
Both could be injured by falling.

40. Work at Height
Work at height- Fall Protection
•There are two types of fall protection
•Fall Restraint- a safe system of work and equipment
using a front attachment that prevents a person from
falling from height
• Fall Arrest- a safe system of work and equipment using
a rear attachment that does not prevent the fall but stops
the consequences

41. Common work at height Solutions
Lighting grids
How high is the job from the ground?
What surface will the access equipment rest on?
Is this surface strong enough to take the weight of the workers and their
equipment?
What is the ground condition under the area where access equipment might
need to be set up – for example, is it sloping or uneven? The access
equipment you use must be suitable for the ground conditions – stable, level,
and not liable to fall or collapse.
Is it raining hard, or very windy?
Task
What tools or materials will you need for the work? How will you get them up
and down safely?
Make sure that no loose items are taken into the grid, e.g. by use of pocket
less overalls, tie-lines on tools and equipment etc. You may also need to create
an exclusion zone below the working area, e.g. by erecting a barrier.
In order to enforce this, you may need some form of warning system when the
grid is occupied. Everybody working in the area should be clearly aware of the
system being used.

42. Event Rigging Safety

43. Event Rigging Safety
Riggers
Someone who can use a range of specialist equipment to raise and support
significant loads at places of entertainment, including music / event venues,
arenas and studios, typically for the purpose of lighting and AV equipment, but
potentially also complex and heavy stage sets / dressings / advertising scrims /
etc.. The loads may be supported from free-standing or flown truss structures,
lighting bars, studio grids or single roof level anchor points, and are usually
lifted into place using multiple electric or manual chain hoist units.

44. The hierarchy of access system selection
Catwalks and stairs Access towers and scaffolds.

45. The hierarchy of access system selection
Mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPS)
Boom Type or Cherry Picker Vertical lift/Scissor Platform.

46. The hierarchy of access system selection
Ladders
Rope Access

47. The hierarchy of access system selection
Last resort - climbing with personal fall arrest - a protective
system – not a preventative system!
Every system requires information and training.

48. Your employer must ensure:
• All work at height is planned and organised
• Weather conditions are considered
• Those involved are trained, competent and
experienced
• The place where work is done is safe
• The equipment is inspected and approved
and the risks are assessed and controlled
• For all work at height there should be a
rescue plan.
Employers Responsibility

49. This industry has a
safety culture
This can be
improved by you
and your attitude.
Safety Culture
Does this man have a safe attitude?
Who can tell?

50. Safety Attitude
What about this mans’
attitude?
This is not a good
attitude.
Discuss.

51. Welfare Facilities
Your employer must provide suitable
facilities for:
• Eating/resting
• Washing
• Sanitary requirements
• Clothes storage.
You are responsible for maintaining
personal hygiene, having sufficient
rest and being fit and well to
complete your role.

52. • Safe access and egress
• Safety signs
• Slips and trips
• Safe work at height
• Safety culture and your attitude
• Welfare facilities.
Summary

53. Module 1 + 2
Assessment Questions