Occupational Health and Safety
The health and safety of performers is a key priority for FIA. Each time they are to perform on set, open-air environments, established or unconventional venues, dance on raked stages, interact with animals during a performance, handle heavy or encumbering props, perform near naked flames and pyrotechnics, smoke and fog, etc. these environments raise unique health and safety concerns that should be properly taken into account to prevent the occurrence of injuries and minimize risks.
FIA has developed guidelines for professional performers working in live shows as well as in audiovisual production, aiming to raise awareness about the most recurring hazards and measures that performers can take to keep themselves safe. FIA is equally engaged with employers in the sector regarding health and safety concerns, promoting better standards, codes of practice and risk assessment tools in the industry
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28.06.2023
Calling for Equality and Safety for Women in Film at Cannes...
Photos Helena Depambour - Marché du Film Film workers’ unions elevated solutions to making the industry more accessible and...[more]
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15.12.2022
Update: Recommended Health and Safety Guidelines
In 2007, the FIA Secretariat published the Recommended Health and Safety Guidelines under the title ‘Act Safe’ in two different...[more]
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09.02.2022
Pandemic Restrictions and Recovery Measures in Europe:...
Over the past turbulent two years, EuroFIA unions have frequently convened to exchange views and experience regarding their...[more]
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03.06.2021
Launch of the NEW Risk Assessment tool for Audiovisual...
FIA is very happy to announce the launch and publication of the new European Online Interactive Risk Assessment Tool (OiRA) for...[more]
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08.07.2020
FIA, UNI MEI and FIM teamwork on post Covid-19 return to...
In the context of the Covid-19 crisis and its devastating effect on the media and entertainment industry, FIA and sister...[more]
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05.07.2018
Capacity building Workshop in Bogota, Colombia, 4-6 May 2018
In early May FIA, carried-out a three day capacity building training in Bogota in cooperation with UNI MEI and UNI Americas, and...[more]
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19.01.2018
Life Off-Stage: A Survival Guide for Artists and Cultural...
There is a wealth of resources available, both online and offline, to inform, advise and support artists and cultural...[more]
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01.02.2017
Living (and dying) in Bollywood
FIA has been actively promoting proper health and safety standards in the burgeoning Mumbai film and television industry for some...[more]
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21.10.2016
FIA unions around the world united with SAG-AFTRA members...
The International Federation of Actors firmly stands by SAG-AFTRA members in the US as they strike to earn very reasonable and...[more]
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28.07.2016
Report from the Closing Conference of the OIRA project for...
The OIRA II project by the European Social partners came to a close with a final event that took place in Athens on the 15 and...[more]
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15.06.2016
Closing Conference of the OIRA project for Live...
The OIRA project by the European Social partners will round off with a closing event taking place in Athens on the 15 and 16th of...[more]
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28.01.2016
OIRA: Two Health & Safety Tools for the Live Performance...
The FIM, FIA, UNI-MEI and Pearle* project to further develop and promote Online Interactive Risk Assessment in the Live...[more]
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13.10.2015
Promoting safer standards in Bollywood
Global federations FIA, UNI MEI and FIM met with film workers' unions in Mumbai on October 7-9, 2015, to address health and...[more]
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21.09.2015
Launch of the Live Performance OIRA Tools - 17 September,...
On the 17th of September, the European social partners of the live performance sector launched two online interactive tools to...[more]
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20.02.2015
European Risk Assessment Tool for the Live Performance...
Through their joint project-based work since 2012, the European social partners in the Live Performance sector (Pearle* for the...[more]
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01.12.2014
The flip side of Bollywood
Mumbai boasts one of the most prolific and popular industries in the entire world of entertainment: it is the Mecca of Indian...[more]
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13.06.2007
Actsafe: recommended health and safety guidelines - Live...
These guidelines are meant as an essential – albeit not exhaustive – checklist for performers, with practical tips they can keep...[more]
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10.06.2007
Actsafe: recommended health and safety guidelines -Film and...
These guidelines are meant as an essential – albeit not exhaustive – checklist for performers, with practical tips they can keep...[more]