All employers must conduct a risk assessment to identify hazards and risks. A sample risk assessment is provided for a school production of Beauty and the Beast to illustrate what should be included. Hazards identified include slips and trips, use of ladders and rigging lights, pyrotechnics, falling off the stage, hitting heads under the stage, using scaffolding, dropping heavy equipment, reaching high shelves, spraying flammable coating, and splinters. For each hazard, those who may be harmed, existing controls, and any additional actions needed are described. The risk assessment should be reviewed if circumstances change.

1. Risk assessment
All employers must conduct a risk assessment. If you have fewer than five employees you don't have to write anything down.
We have startedoff the risk assessment for you by including a sample entry for a common hazard to illustrate what is expected (the sample entry is takenfrom an office-based business).
Look at how this might apply to your business, continue by identifying the hazards that are the real priorities in your case and complete the table to suit.
You can print and save this template so you can easily review and update the information as and when required. You may find our example risk assessments a useful guide
(http://www.hse.gov.uk/risk/casestudies).Simply choose the example closest to your business.
Companyname: Ringwood school production ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Date ofrisk assessment: 31/01/18
What are the
hazards?
Who might be harmedand how? What are you already doing? Do you need to do anything else to
control this risk?
Action by
who?
Action by
when?
Danger
rating 1-5
(5= highest)
Slips and trips Stage managementteam or cast may
trip over wires or parts of set waiting in
the wings and could also slip on spills.
The castcould also trip down the stairs
in the dark.
No one is allow any food or drink around
and backstage.
All trailing leads and cables have being
moved and neatened againstwalls and out
of the cast’s way.
Wires are being wound up properly and
unwound in an unused space.
All the boxes and other items that are
not needed in the wings will be
moved into the Gym.
A light needs to be added by the
stairs to prevent the casttripping
stage
Management
and the
sound/lighting
team if wires
come loose.
From now on
2
Ladders and rigging
lights
Stage management,lighting and sound
as the ladder could fall on member of
crew, or someone could drop a lamp or
piece of sound equipment. If a lamp falls
on someone’s head itcould give them
serious head injuryand could be fatal.
Someone is spotting atthe bottom of the
ladder and the one going up the ladder
doesn’tascend holding anything butwaits
until they are at the top before someone else
passes them whatthey need.
Wear hard hats when spotting so that
if something does full you are
protected.
stage
Management
and the
sound/lighting
team
from now on 5
Pyros Stage management,castand Mr.
Coombes as he is the one setting them
off and the castwill be on stage at the
time.Also the stage managementteam
are in the wings. If they are in the way of
the pyros and are not flambared itcould
be fatal.
We have Flamebared all the castcostumes
for the scenes the pyros are used in order to
protect them againstflames.The pyros will
not be fired if the distance between the cast
and the pyros are too close.They have been
tested.
The boxes on stage for the prologue
need a cue to be moved from the
stage.Do the Stage management
team need their cloths to be
flamebared?
Mr. Coombes or
stage
management
for the moving
of the boxes
Mr. Davis
Sunday 4th
February
5
Paint Stage management,castand set
painters as they could slip
Warned the cast aboutthe tested painting
on the upstage rightcorner of the stage as
the castwould have slipped on it.
Postpone movementon the stage to
paintit and let in dry.
Set painters
and stage
management
Tuesday6th
February
2

2. Falling off the stage The castand crew/ anyone who comes
onto the stage to work on something.
Look around and make sure you are not
walking too close to the edge of the stage.
Find a way to mark the edges during
fro actors moving during the
blackouts so thatthey can see where
to avoid.
Stage
management
From now on 3
Hitting head/ injuring
yourselfunder the
stage
Stage management,Mr. Davis and
actors as some will need to go under
the stage for the scissor liftwhich may
ruin costumes.Mr. Davis will be
operating it.
Stage managementhave cleared as much
of the dustand items from underneath the
stage away so that there are less things for
the actors to catch their costumes on.They
have also been warned aboutthe heightof
the space and the hot pipe leading to the
radiators so thatthey can exercise caution.
Could the radiators be off during the
duration of the show so that they are
not hot for the transformation scene?
Site team and
Mr. Davis
From now on 3
Using the
scaffolding tower
The stage management,lighting and
sound teams as theyhave been rigging
lighting and sound equipmentin the
auditorium.It could fall on any crew
member.
We insure that the breaks are on once the
tower is in place and that everything is
passed up to the people at the top. The
people going up mustclimb on the inside as
weighton the outside will cause itto tip.
Have more than one person spotting/
pushing itwhen there are people at
the top so that it reduces the risk of it
hitting a lamp or speaker or that the
person atthe top gets hurt.
Stage
management,
lights and
sound
From now on 4
dropping heavy
equipment
All departments thatare carrying setor
equipmentfrom flightcases as they
could drop them and damage their feet
or someone else’s.
We are making sure to have more than one
person carrying heavy equipmentand
making sure thatthey have good grip on the
objectbefore lifting otherwise itcould slip on
accident.
Planning a rout around people so that
there is no build up when there are
too many things/people in the way.
All departments From now on 4
Getting to the high
shelves in the
storage cupboard
Stage management,lighting and sound
need to reach things on the top shelves
but they could fall or the items could fall
on someone.
We stand on fight cases in the storage
cupboard or use a small ladder and we pass
the objectdown to the person below so that
we don’ttry and get down with the item as it
could lead to us falling off the case or
ladder.We have someone spotting.
Make sure the flight cases are always
locked in place by the breaks and
only stand on them if the ladder can’t
fit as the ladder is much safer and
can have a spotter and person to
take the objectfrom the person atthe
top.
Stage
management,
lighting and
sound.
From now on. 3
Spraying the
flambar
Costume,stage management,Mr. Davis
as the whole setand costumes need to
be coated and could get in your eyes.
Holding the costumes far awayfrom your
eyes and out of the way people nearby.
Maybe do it when there are less
people in the room so that there is
less chance ofinjury.
Stage
management,
costume and
Mr. Davis
From now on. 3
Splinters All departments when move wooden
objects/pieces ofset/ props.
Hold the item were the wood is smoother
and less likelyto split
More than one person and without
sliding along hand/skin.
All departments From now on 1
You should review your risk assessmentifyou think it mightno longer be valid (e.g. following an accidentin the workplace or if there are any significantchanges to hazards,such as new work
equipmentor work activities)
For information specific to your industry please go to http://www.hse.gov.uk.
For further information and to view our example risk assessments go to http://www.hse.gov.uk/risk/casestudies/

3. .
Combined risk assessment and policy template published by the Health and Safety Executive 08/14