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Children,Young People and Work Experience
Restrictions on what they will do

Children must not to be exposed to any activity or situation which, through their naivety or lack of development, places them at increased risk of injury or ill-health or is specifically prohibited in law.
 
Those under 18 are specifically prohibited from certain high risk work. For example they cannot:
  • take part in a performance endangering life or limb (e.g. stunts)
  • lift excessive weights
  • handle devices containing explosives (e.g. fireworks, vfx)
  • clean machines in motion
  • work where they may be exposed to:
  1. dangerous machines;
  2. toxic or carcinogenic agents;
  3. harmful levels of radiation;
  4. extreme heat, cold, noise or vibration.
  • work with fierce or poisonous animals
  • cannot drive tractors and farm vehicles (if under 13s).
So a risk assessment needs to consider their particular vulnerabilities and prohibit then from such work and any which:
  • exceeds their physical and psychological capacity
  • entails risk which a young persons cannot be expected to understand because of their immaturity.
Young people may be exempted where the work is essential to their vocational training but these exemptions are unlikely to apply to the work of the BBC.
 
In addition there are restrictions set out in the Producers Guidelines e.g. violence.  Keep children separate from these using cut aways, reverse filming, etc.
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