Bectu's Starting Safely online via zoom

The Bectu Starting Safely course.

This is a new health & safety course from Bectu delivered online via Zoom.

What is the Bectu Starting Safely course?

The Bectu Starting Safely course is a three-hour health & safety course designed specifically for workers, employed or freelance, working in film, TV, theatre and live events. It promotes a safety culture based on personal responsibility for safety. This means that it encourages delegates to be pro-active in their own safety and the safety of others. The course is aimed at employees and freelance workers who are not Head of Department or must write risk assessments. The Creative Industries Safety Passport covers the higher level.

The course is approved by ScreenSkills and meets the National Occupational Standards in Health & Safety. It is valid for 5 years and comes with a workbook pdf and a Screenskills and a Bectu certificate. With so many employers asking for proof of health and safety training Bectu is providing an approved qualification that is relevant to creative industries workers.

What is the course content?

The course was designed in 2023 and covers the basics a delegate needs in health & safety as well as focusing on specific hazards that come up in the creative industries. It is regularly updated to reflect the working environment.

The Learning outcomes are:

1. Identify why it is important to work safely and everyone’s responsibilities in relation to safety, health, and wellbeing in the workplace.

2. Understand your scope and responsibility for rectifying risks.

3. Identify workplace hazards and risks, their impact and how to control them.

4. Identify your role within safety, health and wellbeing are managed in the workplace.

The course is split into 4 modules with breaks in between:

• Introducing creative industry safety; this covers why health & safety matters, health & safety legislation, duties of employees, self-employed and contractors under the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and what is a health & safety policy.
• Defining hazard and risk; this covers what is a hazard and a risk, competence & risk perceptions.
• Hazards and practical control measures; this covers slips and trips, manual handling, electricity, display screen equipment, working at height, work equipment, hazardous substances, asbestos, noise, driving, drones, violence, terrorist threats, stress, mental health, fire and hidden hazards.
• Improving safety performance; this covers health & safety in the workplace, controlling risk, keeping people safe in the workplace, working time, safe systems of work, personal protective equipment (PPE), signs and signals, first aid, accidents, accident reporting, safety representatives & personal responsibility.

The course uses a mix of teaching styles, including video and discussion to enhance the learning experience. Delegates can bring real issues and near miss incidents to increase the relevance of the course. All the trainers are IOSH accredited and have a wealth of knowledge and experience working in the creative industries.

The course has an online assessment with ten questions, mainly multiple choice with a maximum mark of 20. To be eligible to receive a passport certificate you must achieve a total minimum pass mark of 12.

For the assessments, a link will be sent to you to complete the assessments; the first for the practice test with 5 minutes to complete, the second for the assessment with 10 minutes to complete. Each assessment has a time window allotted to access the assessment, it will only be available for the day and time of the training. The assessment must be completed not using the workbook or web search aids while the video camera is on and can be monitored by the tutor under exam conditions. You will receive your mark on completion of the assessment.

For any student requiring any reasonable adjustments to completing the assessments, an extra 5 minutes per assessment can be requested.

Attendee online requirements

You will need an internet connection that supports video conferencing.

You need to use a device that has a camera and microphone.

In the event of a lost connection, email the tutor mroberts@bectu.org.uk to discuss options to catch up on the sessions missed.

Online attendee instructions

Though the course is designed to be interactive and delegate participation is encouraged, to ease the running of the course, during the training session all the delegates will be asked to stay muted except for group activities, if you would like to ask a question, please use the ‘raise hand’ function found by your name in the ‘participants’ button and the tutor will respond.

By signing up to course the attendees agree to the following: “The attendee will not do anything to reduce the integrity of the assessment, including referring to the internet or any other resources whilst it is taking place.” A pre-course form sent out in advance must be signed and returned before the start of the course. Please be aware that an IOSH assessor may observe random course sessions to assure quality assurance.

How Much Does It Cost?

The one-day course will cost £20 and there will be a discounted rate of £10 for BECTU members. There will be an associate rate of £15. This includes the training, the workbook and the Passport certificate. VAT is not added to our course ticket prices.

Time of course: 10.00am – 12:40pm

Cancellation Policy

We appreciate that when circumstances change you may no longer be able to attend a training course date you have already booked and paid for.

Whilst we will always try our best to accommodate any alterations to your plans, BECTU has a standard cancellation policy which is as follows:

• If you notify us (phone/email) 3 full days or longer before the scheduled course date you will not be charged and will be refunded in full any course fees you have paid.
• For any cancellation you make that is less than 3 full days before the course date, you will be charged 50% of the total course fee with 50% refunded. This is unless you can demonstrate to us extenuating circumstances.
• If you do not attend the course and/or fail to notify us in advance you will be charged the full course fee.

We are unable to reimburse any non-transferable travel or accommodation expenses that may arise from a course being re-scheduled or cancelled.

BECTU reserves the right to cancel courses without liability. However, where possible, delegates will be offered an alternative date or a full refund.

Privacy Notice

Bectu’s Starting Safely is an approved course on the Production 'Safety Passport' scheme run by the 'Production Safety Group', made up of representatives of major UK Broadcasters, Indies, BECTU and ScreenSkills (The Sector Skills Council for Creative Media). This scheme supports mutual recognition of agreed safety training between the participants to avoid unnecessary retraining and ensure consistency.

What information we collect:

The personal data we collect from you are:

• Personal details

• Contact details

• Employment details

• Education details

• Financial details

• On-line identification data

The special category data we collect from you are:

• Equality data

• Trade union membership

How we use this information:

The personal data we collect will be used for the following purposes:

• Administration of the online booking process
• To contact you regarding any matter arising from your booking or attendance at the course.
• To process the payment fee for the course
• To distribute a student list to the course tutor
• To keep a record of course attendance
• To inform you of your assessment result
• To transfer data to IOSH for accreditation and issuing of passport certificate
• To mail out certificate or replacement certificate
• Equality monitoring
• To manage zoom sessions including the chat function and close caption transcriptions.

Lawful Basis for Processing

The lawful basis we rely on to process your personal data is that the processing is necessary to perform a contract, Article 6.1.b of the UK GDPR.

The lawful basis we rely on to process data when using Zoom/Teams is our Legitimate Interest to use a system to provide students access to on-line courses. Article 6.1.f of UK GDPR

Our lawful basis to collect Equality data is consent. Article 6.1.a of UK GDPR.

The lawful basis for special category data is:

Trade union membership processing is carried out in the course of our legitimate activity as a trade union. Article 9.2.d of UK GDPR

Equality data is only processed with the explicit consent of students, and this data is only collected on a voluntary basis. Article 9.2.a of UK GDPR.

Special category data

Legitimate activities by a trade union

Equality data - Explicit consent

Personal data shared by students during Zoom sessions are manifestly made public by the data subject.

Your data will only be shared with the following:

ScreenSkills

Who will process your data?

The processing by these organisations will involve the transfer of data to the US. This is done under standard contractual clauses.

Eventbrite

Zoom

Retention

Your data will be retained for the following periods:

Prospect will retain specific data for 5 years.

ScreenSkills will collect data directly from the course attendees and retain for 10 years.

How will we keep your data secure?

Data will be kept in an encrypted format on secure servers.