Milestone reached: the Guideline for safe and healthy working in the audiovisual sector is ready!

The Leidraad veilig en gezond werken audiovisuele sector (Guide to Safe and Healthy Work in the Audiovisual Sector) contains 37 principles to ensure the physical and psychosocial safety of contractors involved in making feature films, short films, documentaries, animations, series and innovative media productions. The principles relate to the working environment and the scheduling of work and rest periods. In April 2024, the Guiding Principles will take effect.

Safe and healthy working guide

You create a healthy, safe and professional collaboration together. It is therefore the intention that the principles in the Guide become a permanent part of the negotiation of work agreements between principals and contractors. Every production is different. That is why clients should always translate the principles in the Guide into a safety policy and plan tailored to the specific circumstances.

In this first version of the Guide the focus is on the turnaround, preparation and completion phases. A subsequent version will include (additional) principles for other phases in the development and production process where necessary and possible.

The Leidraad veilig en gezond werken audiovisuele sector (Guide to Working in a Safe and Healthy Audiovisual Sector) has been adopted by the Film/AV chain table. In this consultative body, representatives of clients and contractors work together on practical instruments to further elaborate the Audiovisual Sector Letter of Intent and the Fair Practice Code. Public Internet consultation and presentations to financiers and other stakeholders are part of the process. The chain table Film/AV is part of the fairPACCT program of Platform ACCT and is led by independent chair Doreen Boonekamp.

Download the Safe and Healthy Work Guide here:

FairPACCT chain table Film/AV ‘Guide to safe and healthy working AV sector version 1.0’ April 2024

Handouts for practical application

Consultations at the Film/AV chain table have previously resulted in the AV Sector Concept Framework: an overview of terms with neutral definitions that are often used when drawing up contracts. In the coming months, under the guidance of Social Finance Matters, the Film/AV chain table will be working on the practical elaboration of two recommendations by Bureau Berenschot: the ‘Assignment Compass’ and the report ‘From wage to ZZP starting rate’. The aim is to publish these guidelines and the next version of the Guide in the summer of 2024.

The parties participating in the Film/AV chain table are: Nederlandse Audiovisuele Producenten Alliantie (NAPA), Nederlandse Content Producenten (NCP), Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO), College van Omroepen (CoO), Kunstenbond Crew interests, FNV Media & Culture, FijnWeekend, Dutch Directors Guild (DDG), Dutch Production Association (DPA), Authors’ Union, Scenario Writers Network, Dutch Association of Cinema-Editors (NCE), Netherlands Society of Cinematographers (NSC), Vereniging Constructief Audio (VCA), Art, Costume and Make-up & Hair professionals (ACM), Post supervisors Network Netherlands (PNN), ACT actors’ interests (ACT) and the Dutch Agents Association (NAA).