From the
Manager’s Desk:
Motion Picture
- Anand Kanna, Manager of Motion
Picture Programs and Services,
Actsafe Safety Association
But We’ve Already Had One Orientation;
Do We Need Another?
M
ost employers in motion
picture and television realize the
importance and the need for
delivering an orientation to their
workers. And for the most part,
employers and supervisors are
delivering those orientations. The
one area we are lacking in is when
to deliver an orientation, and how to
document it properly.
Let’s say that our shooting crew starts their day
in the gritty back alleys of Vancouver. Call
time is 10:00am, and everyone has assembled
for the safety talk that will be delivered by the
first assistant director. Our 1st AD is a pro, and
delivers a thorough orientation, touching on all
the hazards while working in this urban area.
The crew sets off to work, completes the work
and quickly packs up, ready for their mid-
day move to the forest in the Lower Seymour
Conservation Reserve. After lunch, the crew
arrives in North Vancouver and immediately
starts to go about their work, setting up for
their night shoot.
Do we need to have another orientation? The
answer is yes. To clarify things, a new or young
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worker orientation must orient the worker to
their new worksite. So every time workers arrive
at a new film location, they must be oriented
to that worksite. That means we might need to
have multiple orientations during a single day.
And they have to be documented.
How do you deliver
and document multiple
orientations to a full
shooting crew when
arriving at multiple
worksites and still manage
to get through your day’s
work?
Before we dive into that rabbit hole, let’s review
what WorkSafeBC requires from an orientation.
Occupational Health and Safety Regulation
3.23 lists a number of topics that employers
must cover when providing an orientation
to a new or young worker. These include
the basics such as: rights and responsibilities,
the employers health and safety program
components like working alone and hazard
reporting procedures, and personal protective