Immuno-Inclusivity in Opera

Part 3: Calls to Action

3.3 Workers

Part 3: Calls to Action: contents
  1. Part 3: Calls to Action
  2. 3.1 Everyone who can
  3. 3.2 Presenters, producers, and production companies
  4. 3.3 Workers
  5. 3.4 Venues and venue operators
  6. 3.5 Instructors, coaches, and learning environments
  7. 3.6 Professional organizations, associations, unions, and worker representatives
  8. 3.7 Funding bodies

Artists

  • Participate in workplace health & safety activities; request hazard assessments (e.g., ventilation/indoor air quality, communicable disease) if needed
  • Consider including access rider with contracts/agreements
  • Travel practices: use a well-fitting respirator mask and clean air measures when possible during travel (See: 3.2 Touring and travel)

See: 4.1 Checklists

Creative and production teams

See also: 3.2 Presenters, producers, and production companies

  • Review venue features including clean air specifications to inform health & safety planning
  • Create multiple opportunities to voluntarily and/or anonymously share access needs (e.g., introductions, access riders, costume measurement forms)
  • Provide health & safety briefings at project commencement
  • Consistently use layered protections, including clean air measures and respiratory protection/source control
  • Use informed substitution to reduce hazardous product use (e.g., costumes, hair & makeup, set & props, special effects, cleaning & disinfecting products)
  • Include health & safety alerts and reminders in rehearsal reports
  • Consider creative ways to incorporate immuno-inclusivity in performance (e.g., masks in costume design, air cleaners in set design, distancing opportunities in stage direction, easy-to-sanitize props, audience health & safety announcements in-character)
  • Consider redundancy in team structure and buffer time in schedules, in case of illness

See: 4.1 Checklists

Part 3: Calls to Action: contents
  1. Part 3: Calls to Action
  2. 3.1 Everyone who can
  3. 3.2 Presenters, producers, and production companies
  4. 3.3 Workers
  5. 3.4 Venues and venue operators
  6. 3.5 Instructors, coaches, and learning environments
  7. 3.6 Professional organizations, associations, unions, and worker representatives
  8. 3.7 Funding bodies