2.3 Health and safety in our performance

Health and Safety

My role was the prop manager and I was responsible for making sure that all the props are ready for the performance. Along with my partner who is also in charge of props, we had to ensure that the props were safe to use and harmless. We had to make sure that the props wouldn’t cause injuries or accidents whilst being handled. So when selecting the props, we thought about all the risks that could be caused and chose the prop which had the least number of risks, that way the actors or people handling the props are safer.

In our performance, there was a scene where one of the actors had to move chairs and she had to be careful not to hurt anybody else near her or any of the actors back stage. Another thing that we didn’t do abiding by the health and safety rules is that it was really dark, there was nobody there to show them the path, someone could’ve tripped over the satires and hurt themselves and then the injuries would've affected whether they could perform or not.

Also the costumes designer had to ensure that the costumes were appropriate and safe to wear and perform in. The make-up artist had to test out all the make-up before applying it to any of the actors just in case of any allergic reactions.