FROM: Lori Stewart - It’s Busy ! It’s Awesome! But let’s keep it safe…
We currently have 53 productions on the books at UBCP/ACTRA – it’s the busiest ever and it is the traditionally ‘slow time’ of year. Wow. We’ve seen a spike in some serious incidents and ‘near miss’ situations, ‘location problems’ along with a lot of bullying & harassment complaints. Many crew members have been promoted to higher positions and new and young workers are filling in the vacated positions. We have a lot more ‘inexperienced’ crew members on set who may or may not have the training, intuition or experience to be totally ‘safe’ on set. Things are starting to happen… As I sit in my