Hello everyone,

The purpose of this memo is to inform you that ACTRA, APP, AQPM, AQTIS 514 AIEST, ARRQ, DGC and UDA have agreed to set up a national structure to identify and analyze the occupational health and safety risks to which people working in the audiovisual production field may be exposed in the course of providing their services.

Although some details remain to be worked out, this structure will include a national health and safety committee, national prevention representatives appointed by each of the artists' associations involved and a national workplace health and safety risk identification and analysis exercise. The objective of the national structure will be to develop a coherent and consistent framework, applicable to most Quebec film sets, and it will support producers, workers and artists in the adoption of safer work practices over the next few years.

The associations involved consider this structure to be an appropriate response to the requirements of the "interim regime" resulting from the Act to modernize the occupational health and safety regime (also known as Bill 59) and they hope to be able to perpetuate it, in the short or medium term, particularly to update and/or complete the work undertaken several years ago by the Table de concertation paritaire de l'industrie du cinéma et de la vidéo du Québec.

You will find attached the names of the members of the national health and safety committee designated, on a strictly interim basis, by the various associations. Members of each association are invited to contact their respective association representatives if they have any questions about this memo, Bill 59 or any other issue related to health or safety in the workplace.

Note that the committee will hold its first meeting on June 1, 2022 and that, between now and that date, the associations currently involved (and any additional associations joining the process) will work to finalize the terms of their framework agreement and to develop the documents and tools required to allow the national committee to function effectively. The various associations will, of course, keep their respective members informed of the progress of this work, according to their usual channels of communication.

Sincerely,

Interim members of the National Health and Safety Committee for Audio Visual Production