About the session
Safe Practice: Undertaking Risk Assessments
Working in creative health is rewarding, and is increasingly part of many performing arts careers, but it also comes with its own challenges and can be emotionally and mentally demanding for artists delivering programmes, impacting their own health.
Risks may relate to factors including constantly changing working environments, systemic challenges experienced by clients such as discrimination, marginalisation, precarity, or health inequalities, and the challenges of looking after your own wellbeing.
Navigating these risks can be tough but having a plan around safe practice and understanding how to undertake risk assessments will help lighten the mental load and protect yourself and others when unexpected situations arise, allowing you to continue to support others and protect your own health.
In this session we will cover:
- The risks involved in different settings
- Supporting vulnerable people safely
- Creating your own risk assessment for your places of work
- Who to contact when you need support
Facilitator: Dr Amal Lad, GP and Musician
Dr Amal Lad is a GP and musician treating general and performance specific physical and mental health problems. This would include depression, anxiety, musculoskeletal pain and all problems normally assessed and treated in general practice. He is passionate about finding new ways to support people working in the performing arts. He is also musician and he has composed music for a number of projects including film, theatre and released his personal music on streaming platforms which can be found on his website. Currently, Amal is preparing the release of new experimental music, while continuing his work in medicine.
About the Series
This series for performing artists working in creative health settings gives practical and empathetic support to ensure that they are able to deliver their work in a way that protects their own health and wellbeing. Developed by BAPAM in partnership with The BRIT Trust, these sessions are facilitated by healthcare professionals with expertise in both health and performance settings.
If you are a performing artist working in creative health, this series will help you to support others while understanding and managing risks involved in your work, have a plan of what to do when unexpected situations arise, set clear boundaries and know when and where to seek support.
The series covers four key areas:
- Safe Practice: Undertaking Risk Assessments
- Managing Challenging Situations
- Relationships and Boundaries
- Identifying Individual Need for Support
The BRIT Trust
The BRIT Trust was established in 1989 by UK record labels with the BPI and the wider music community. Its founding mission was to draw on the transformative power of music and the arts to do good and to enable positive life pathways for young people of all backgrounds – recognising that this can best be achieved by embracing accessibility, diversity and inclusion as key values.
Funded largely by monies raised each year by The BRIT Awards and the Music Industry Trusts Award (MITS), The BRIT Trust has to date made more than 280 grant commitments totalling almost £30 million to a wide range of causes and charities across the UK that inspire people to realise their full potential and life chances, whatever their abilities, ethnicity, gender and sexuality.
BAPAM
BAPAM is the medical charity for the performing arts. We are the largest provider of clinical services to the UK’s entire performing arts sector. Our events give artists, creators, technicians, teachers, and organisers the knowledge they need to improve health and enjoy sustainable careers.
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