Photography safety information

1. All ABB sites have a safety advisor responsible for them, where this person is not permanently on the site e.g. services and project sites and or can not attend, an alternative suitable person should be nominated. The photographer’s ABB host, contacts the Health and Safety (H&S) Advisor for the business unit to be visited. This should normally be via the business unit manager as part of the normal request for a site visit, if necessary the Country Sustainability Controller (CSC) can provide the necessary contact.

1.1 The site H&S Advisor should then be given details of the visit, including proposed areas, plant, products and people to be photographed. Also the equipment to be brought onto site, numbers of people etc.

2. The H&S Advisor will undertake a risk assessment if necessary, and identify any health and safety controls that may be required.

3. The H&S advisor for the business concerned should ensure any visits arranged by ABB are going to be safe; employees who visit customer sites should be provided with their own Personal Protective Equipment - hard hat, boots, high visibility vest etc - based on a risk assessment by their H&S advisor, the type of sites, hazards to which they are exposed to etc. If ABB is arranging for third parties, including photographers, to visit our or other (eg customer) sites they should be suitably equipped and briefed.

On-site
4. The photographer and team will sign in on arrival, and be given a visitor’s badge. They will then receive a health and safety induction, with the level and detail being proportionate to the risks on site. This induction shall cover general site risks, and risks specific to the task being undertaken e.g. safe access.

5. The photographer will be accompanied by the H&S Advisor, or a suitably experienced and trained colleague. To ensure that:-

(a) Photographs are taken in a safe way, not putting the photographer and or others at risk.
(b) People who are asked to pose are safe and not presenting a risk to themselves and or others.
(c) Third parties are not put at risk.
(d) Scenes being photographed are in compliance with national, and ABB health and safety requirements. (Note: It is expected that all sites will be safety compliant at all times, but with the dynamic nature of some work environments it is possible that minor non-conformances may occur.)

6. Where possible the photographer reviews the photographs taken with the H&S Advisor at the end of the visit. The photographer then signs out and returns visitor badge.

Post-Visit
7. Photographs should be sent to the site H&S Advisor for review. Where photographs are taken for publications covering a number of different sites the Country Communications Manager (CCM) should coordinate to ensure that all photographs are reviewed prior to publication.

At each stage of this process every effort should be made to ensure that photographs showing acts or situations that contravene ABB or national safety requirements should not be passed for publication.

Guidance
8. Health and Safety Advisors should have their own checklist for reviewing photographs, reflecting national, and ABB health and safety requirements. Examples of the areas that should be covered in the checklist are shown below:-