This risk assessment document outlines potential risks and preventative measures for filming activities at a museum. It identifies tripping over camera wires could hurt people, damaging chess pieces by tripping on shoe laces, and tripod legs or dropped equipment hitting people or walls. The preventative measures include securing wires, ensuring shoe laces are tied, closing tripod legs and safely storing equipment.

1. Risk Assessment
Scene:
Director: Date:
Activity Risk Preventative Measure
Filming interviews. Camera wire across the
floor. People can trip over
the wire and can badly
hurt themselves.
Put the wire to one side and notify
people to not walk on that side of the
room.
Filming the chess
pieces.
There is a risk of
damaging the container,
which contains the chess
pieces by tripping over
your laces and hitting the
glass.
Make sure your laces are tied and also
make sure you have sufficient space
around yourself.
Moving around with
equipment.
Tripod legs hitting the
general public and the
museum walls. Also
dropping the camera and
other equipments.
Close the tripod legs and fold it up and
put it in the tripod case. Make sure the
camera is strapped around your neck or
it is in the camera bag.
Filming general
public.
British museum
Amad Islam 4/12/13