(a)The Legislature finds and declares the following:
(1)All workers deserve a safe and healthy workplace. Because the sets of motion picture productions have potential hazards, proactive planning and oversight of the workplace are key to worker safety.
(2)The growing popularity of a diverse array of media platforms and reality television and increased customer demand for new content and new production has increased the need for safety on sets.
(3)Improving the overall health and safety on motion picture production sets is especially critical for the safe handling of firearms.
(4)The primary protections for the cast and crew in a motion picture production, including when firearms are used, are found in voluntary safety standards developed by the Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Co
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(a)
The Legislature finds and declares the following:
(1)
All workers deserve a safe and healthy workplace. Because the sets of motion picture productions have potential hazards, proactive planning and oversight of the workplace are key to worker safety.
(2)
The growing popularity of a diverse array of media platforms and reality television and increased customer demand for new content and new production has increased the need for safety on sets.
(3)
Improving the overall health and safety on motion picture production sets is especially critical for the safe handling of firearms.
(4)
The primary protections for the cast and crew in a motion picture production, including when firearms are used, are found in voluntary safety standards developed by the Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee for use in motion picture production.
(b)
It is the intent of the Legislature to do the following:
(1)
Establish a pilot program to address the implementation and oversight of safety practices and procedures in motion picture productions participating in the pilot program.
(2)
Require the productions in the pilot program to employ a safety advisor to oversee production safety and complete detailed, script-specific general and, if applicable, specific risk assessments as part of this pilot program.
(3)
Establish training requirements and safety standards that focus on the safe handling of firearms and blanks in all motion picture production in California.
(4)
Prohibit, except in the most limited circumstances, the use of live ammunition in motion picture production in California.
(c)
It is not the intent of the Legislature in enacting this part to do either of the following:
(1)
Adversely impact the employment or retention of craft employees responsible for handling firearms used in motion picture productions.
(2)
Preclude the use of firearms, blanks, replicas, simulated firearms, or inert prop firearms or to influence content in motion picture productions.