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Bosses Of British Broadcasting Union, Agents Body & Mark Milsome Foundation Urge Government Support For Preventing On-Set Injury: “We Call Upon Our Industry To Meet This Moment”

Deadline·Max Goldbart·27 days ago
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EXCLUSIVE: Bosses at the British broadcasting union, leading association of agents and anti-bullying body have come together to urge government support helping prevent injury on film, TV and theater sets. A “broad coalition” of 15 influential industry figures have signed a just-published open letter that was sent to UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy and pensions secretary Pat McFadden last night. The group are calling for a “framework” that will “meet this moment” and “promote the safety of cast and crew at work.” Organized by Tome Levi at the Injury Prevention Consultancy (IPC), the letter comes a year after a landmark IPC report “sparked an industry wide conversation about areas of production safety that have been historically overlooked, and presented employers with a powerful case to ameliorate this state of play,” the letter said. These “overlooked areas” included gaps in communication between relaying the physical demand of acting roles and a subsequent lack of on-set support.…

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