DGA Forms New Committee To Tackle Set Safety
deadline.comDGA president Lesli Linka Glatter has appointed a new safety committee “to ensure that safety concerns remain at the forefront of our guild.”The move comes in the wake of the accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and the wounding of director Joel Souza on the New Mexico set of Rust in October.
DGA officials stress, however, that their safety concerns “extend far beyond firearms,” noting that “entertainment workers are regularly exposed to explosions, vehicles, aircraft, falling objects, dangerous animals, or countless other hazardous environments.”“Safety has been and continues to be a top priority for the DGA,” said a guild spokesperson. “For decades, we have been leading advocates for mandatory safety training and for demanding increased safety precautions on sets.
To ensure that safety concerns remain at the forefront of our guild, President Lesli Linka Glatter recently appointed a new Guild-wide Safety Committee of leading directors, assistant directors, unit production managers, associate directors and stage managers in both feature film and television to recommend and advance a broad range of important safety measures for our members and our industry.
Most recently, the Committee has been working with sister guilds and onions and government leaders in California on new legislation to address set safety concerns which we anticipate will be introduced shortly.
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