Health and safety legislation is to make sure that the environment is working safely for example, there should not be anything like cameras, cables or wires lying around during the filming, to stop any damages or unwanted accidents. It is the employer’s responsibility to make sure that all employees work in a safe way. TV and film industries companies should have a health and safety arrangement that must be stuck to at all times. There must be more than one fire alarm in every building and exit signs with clear instructions showing the correct procedure in case of a fire.
The Equality act is treating every employee and employers equally, giving employee's equal opportunities and making fair decisions when employing staff. Employers must not treat any of their employees differently or discriminate against them based on their age, gender, race, sexuality, religion or disability because it it isn't fair.
The Centre for Economic Policy research is a company that checks every other company to ensure that employees are been treated fairly and given equal opportunities within the company or their work, It’s the employer’s job to make sure that every employee in the company is given an equal chance and to be treated fairly and respectfully within the company, if that doesn't happen there is a chance that the employee could loose their job.
A contract is an agreement between employers and employees and it has to be confidential between the both of them because it involves terms and conditions of the job, salary, duties and responsibilities. They both have to read and understand the contract and then sign it to shows that they both have agreed to it.
There are two main employment contracts within the TV and film industry Permanent employment and fixed term employment. Permanent employment is working for one company and employer every day until the employee decides to leave the company or organization and fixed term employment have a start and finish date and it terminates when a task has been complicated.
The broadcasting act is a law that chooses what is shown on TV, this act required TV licence is a tax on all TV owners and came up with different ways of paying for TV viewing for example pay per view and subscription. This act also regulates all TV services in the UK, with the exception of the BBC.
Of com is a communications regulator that regulates TV and radio sectors, their duty is to ensure that the UK has a wide range of electronic communication services, including high-speed services such as broadband and wide range of high-quality television and radio programmes.
The British Board of film Classification they regulate and classify films and videos in terms of age suitability in the media industry for example U and 18 .When checking films and videos the examiners of the BBFC look for issues including: sex images, strong language, drug use/abuse, discrimination, horror and context to ensure that it won’t be offensive to the audience and it won’t influence the children and it wont be appropriate for them to watch.
An ethical constraint is the considerations that media professionals have to take when working within the TV and film industry. Some of these ethical constraints that employers must consider will be appropriateness to audience, codes of practice and representation.
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