Health & Safety Resources

 

Since June 2006 the BBC has required all indies to submit Health & Saftey information before allowing them onto the supplier lists. The process is:

 

* Indie fills in a Health & Safety Questionnaire and submits to the BBC Business Affairs team

* If the BBC considers the information incomplete or insufficient the indie will be contacted and asked for further information

* Once accepted the indie's H&S information is held on file. Every year the indie will be asked to clarify the current company situation (e.g. whether any H&S incidents have occured, or if the company has increased/decreased in size)

 

Health & Safety, and the well-being of everyone working in radio production should always be taken seriously and RIG recommends to all of its members that, regardless of company size or experience, they undertake regular H&S assessments. RIG is working with various H&S partners to create radio-specific guidelines.

 

In the meantime, the following documents are designed to help indies through the BBC H&S process. If you require H&S advice, please note that neither RIG nor the BBC can give it. However, RIG is happy to recommend the the following H&S consultants, who will be happy to offer RIG members discounts on their services:

 

Bob Foster - 01494 439821 - EMAIL ME

 

1st Option Risk Assessment Form (word doc)

1st Option Example H&S Checklist (word doc)

 

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Health & Safety Documents To Download

 

For the latest BBC H&S questionnaire and a sample completed form, go to the BBC Business Requirements webpage or their Compliance & Policy webpage for the Risk Assessment Form, the BBC Guide to Indies on Health and Safety and other useful document

In addition we can offer the following:

HSE's 5 Steps To Risk Assessment (pdf)