Movie Set Safety

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/06/1052357541/movie-sets-safety-hollywood-iatse-rust

After reading the article on film set safety, what do you think are the biggest reasons accidents still happen on movie sets today? Choose one example from the article (like long work hours, lack of safety rules, or low budgets) and explain how you think the film industry could fix this problem.  How can you relate this problem to all of your experiences in the beginning class last year?

   I think that the biggest reasons that accidents still happen on movie sets today are that people cut corners, disregard important health and safety concerns, and exhaustion. For instance, the death of Sarah Jones could have easily been prevented had the people responsible for securing the location gone through the necessary steps to have the railroad be closed for the shoot instead of shooting there without permission and while the track was still active. Unfortunately, they had not taken these measures and thus caused her death. A possible way for the film industry to fix this issue would be more advocate that are pushing for change. With increased awareness and agitation, it could encourage potential laws, rules, and/or resources to be instated to aid with the issue of set safety and accidents. Additionally, better education and training practices such as certification could help ensure that individual crew members are aware of how to run a set safely. I could relate this issue to my experiences from last year and I knew many people who had suffered from exhaustion due to overworking themselves for projects such as SkillsUSA.