The coronavirus crisis has provided an unwelcome lesson in the hidden perils of working in the kind of high-touch environments required of movie and TV production.
Like many, longtime camera operator Lawrence Karman mulls the uncertainty while thinking about new ways to keep production crews safe and healthy.
While Karman knows vaccines and testing for COVID-19 will offer the best chance to ensuring safe work environments, he believes sanitation on set will likely become more of a priority among studio executives and showrunners when production resumes.Among the factors that have contributed to lax hygiene standards, according to several crew members, is location shooting.
Jones recalled working on a site where the construction coordinator declined to rent dumpsters as a cost-saving measure so that the laborers had to fashion crates out of debris and leftover materials. The combination of long hours and the unspoken culture of machismo on set, say production staffers, frequently means powering through sickness, holding off on bathroom breaks or rushing back to set after taking one far from filming while often not washing one’s hands. The long days also mean many simply forgo showers.
“As far as sanitation goes,” she said, “I hope it becomes more of a thing and not something to be taken lightly.”While production operates under a significant set of union contracts outliningon everything from the number of breaks required to detailed safety rules, there is no similar set of standards when it comes to hygiene.
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