Health and Safety

It's hard to not sound patronising at any point for this post because you think with health and safety, it's pretty obvious right? But actually don't be fooled. There is a lot more than just your standard wires.

So when setting up just be conscious of your surroundings. Place bags and other things that won't be needed for the shoot in an area that people won't need to go too. 

Try to keep long wires to a minimum. If you are as clumsy as I am, you don't need any extra help to trip over. I've also learnt from TV and Film is that you should always do a risk assessment. You look round the whole area, assess any possible danger, whether it's barely anything to potentially something major, you write it down. You then try to find a solution for all risks in the room. In case someone was to get seriously injured, you have a risk assessment to back you up.

If you are really keen to find out more about the learnt and safety act for photographers, I found a great link that goes into more detail about the healthy act etc: http://www.michaelwayneplant.com/health-safety-photographers/