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In line with the Government’s Living with COVID-19 plan, legal restrictions have been removed in relation to COVID-19 and the workplace. The UK working safely during COVID-19 guidance continue to exist to provide high level guidance to manage COVID-19 specific risk in film and TV production as part of overarching Health & Safety regulations. Creative England & Film London recommend that productions filming in England take a risk based approach to assessing and mitigating the effect of COVID-19 on production and the baseline expectation is to follow the production’s own COVID-19 protocols and production-specific risk assessment, alongside government workplace guidance.
Please see below for more detail.
In line with the Government’s Living with COVID-19 plan, legal restrictions have been removed in relation to COVID-19 and the workplace. The UK working safely during COVID-19 guides continue to exist to provide high level guidance to manage COVID-19 specific risk in film and TV production. They are referenced below accordingly:
Creative England and Film London’s Code of Practice Action List for Filming in Public Locations is now considered to be superfluous to industry needs and is therefore withdrawn. Creative England and Film London recommend that productions take a risk-based approach to assessing and mitigating the effect of COVID-19 on production and the baseline expectation is to follow the production’s own COVID-19 protocols and production-specific risk assessment, alongside government workplace guidance – www.gov.uk/guidance/reducing-the-spread-of-respiratory-infections-including-covid-19-in-the-workplace
More information on conducting risk assessments and control measures can be found on the HSE website – www.hse.gov.uk/coronavirus/#advice
COVID-19 presented the screen sectors with an unprecedented challenge. The coronavirus continues to be present and the BFI, the lead organisation for film in the UK, provide advice, guidance and support relating to COVID-19 at www.bfi.org.uk/coronavirus-covid-19/working-screen-industry-during-covid-19
The BFI continue to communicate with colleagues in Government and other organisations and funders across the sector, to ensure we all fully understand how the pandemic is impacting the recovery of the sector. We continue to operate a covid-19.queries@bfi.org.uk email address, as a centralised point for all COVID-19 related enquiries.
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