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Weapons and Amourers
Assessing the Risk - Risk Assessment

Where weapons are to be used during the production, the risk assessment must set out the controls that will be in place to address the hazards identified. Where an armourer or other weapons specialist is engaged that person should contribute to the assessment and endorse it. The significant findings must be communicated to all members of the production.
 
If the weapons include replicas or deactivated weapons provided without an Armourer the assessment must be provided to the company supplying the deactivated weapons.

Hazards associated with firearms are as follows:
  • Flying objects, e.g. shotgun pellets, bullets, arrows;
  • Noise;
  • Delayed firing after misfires;
  • Burns;
  • Inhalation of smoke.
Note:People have been severely injured or killed by blanks.
 
Hazards associated with these and other weapons are:
  • Penetration wounds
  • Cuts and abrasions
  • Bruises and concussion
  • Public distress
  • Police response to apparent emergency
  • Theft or loss.      
Further information provided by the HSE  should be read before completing the risk assessment
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