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
Learn more:
- How to negotiate COVID protections | Howlround Theatre Commons
- What is an access rider? | Opera Mariposa
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