Production Safety Accredited is an approval process for health and safety training that is recorded on the ScreenSkills Training Passport. This allows freelancers to move from job to job without needing to re-take their health and safety training.
How it works for freelancers
When you take a Production Safety Accredited course, you will get a secure online record on the ScreenSkills Training Passport of the training you have successfully completed. You’re sent an email with details of how to create a ScreenSkills profile, if you haven’t already got one. This will give you access to your Production Safety Accredited certificate, proving you have completed the training.
You will also then be able to use the ScreenSkills Training Passport system to demonstrate to future employers and engagers that you have already had relevant health and safety training, making you ready to start work on a production or project without having to repeat the training again. It also makes you more attractive as a freelancer because you already have industry-approved health and safety training.
(If you are struggling to find evidence of your accredited course, please get in touch at support@screenskills.com)
How it works for production crew
The Production Safety Accredited scheme approves general and management level courses within health and safety in a variety of key areas, such as production, stunt awareness and locations. Each approved course is assessed against the relevant occupational standards in health and safety: PSA1, PSA2, PSA3 and PSA4:
PSA1 Ensure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety on a production
PSA2 Conduct a risk assessment in the workplace
PSA3 Manage health and safety for productions
PSA4 Develop procedures to safely control work operations
The standards were updated by a working group of production safety experts facilitated by ScreenSkills in 2025. The above standards replace the previous standards (X2, X3, X3.5 and X4).
Anyone on a film or TV production who manages a department/team (e.g. a head of department, unit manager, production manager, 1st assistant director) or has responsibility for an activity/function that requires a risk assessment to be carried out should be qualified to PSA3 level. Courses at this level usually also incorporate PSA2.
We recommend that all production staff who do not manage a department/team should be qualified to at least PSA1 level, which provides a general awareness of health and safety in film and TV production.
Production teams can use the ScreenSkills Training Passport learner management system to simply request crew to complete the relevant training course, or evidence that they have already got an equivalent Production Safety Accredited certificate. Alternatively teams can ask crew to provide an actual copy of their certificate, and use the verify certificate tool to check the certificate code.
How it works for training providers
The Production Safety Accredited scheme approves general and management level courses within health and safety in a variety of key areas, such as production, stunt awareness and locations. Each approved course is assessed against the relevant occupational standards in health and safety: PSA1, PSA2, PSA3 and PSA4:
PSA1 Ensure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety on a production
PSA2 Conduct a risk assessment in the workplace
PSA3 Manage health and safety for productions
PSA4 Develop procedures to safely control work operations
The standards were updated by a working group of production safety experts facilitated by ScreenSkills in 2025. The above standards replace the previous standards (X2, X3, X3.5 and X4).
Training providers can submit their courses for accreditation to the Production Safety Accredited group, comprised of health and safety experts and advisors from the main broadcasters and studios, and facilitated by ScreenSkills. Upon submission of your application, it will then be evaluated by two group members, with successful courses then accredited for a five-year period.
Please contact psa@screenskills.com for more information.
Which courses are currently accredited?
Currently accredited courses are listed below by topic and provider, including the relevant occupational standard. You can send your crew on these courses in the confidence that they are benchmarked by industry.
- BBC – Safety and Security
- BECTU – Starting Safely
- First Option – Online Risk Awareness (RAW) safety training module
- Media Safety Ltd – Introduction to Health and Safety in Film and Media Production
- Media Safety Ltd – Introduction to Locations Safety in Film and TV Production
- The Mark Milsome Foundation – Film and TV Online safety passport course
- Safe Elephant – The Safe Sets Starter Pack
- MSS – Level 1 health and safety awareness for probationary and full stunt performers
- Bectu – Lifting safely
- First Option – Manual Handling for Productions
- Safe Elephant – Manual Handling Awareness
- Dragon Water and Fire – Manual Handling
- BBC – Working Safely at the BBC
- BBC Studios – Safe Management of Production
- Bectu – Creative industries safety passport
- Calvin Hanks – Managing health and safety on a film or TV production
- ESS Consultants – Broadcast Risk Assessment and Management (BRAM)
- First Option – Risk management of productions
- Global – Managing Production Risk
- IMG Media – Safe management of production
- ITV – Managing risk
- ITV – Production risk
- Media Safety Ltd – IOSH Approved Safety Management in Film and TV Production
- MSS Safety – Safe Management of Production
- MiRisk Media – Safe Management of Productions
- Netflix – Production Health and Safety; Safe Management of Production
- Rebel Safety – Safe Management of Production
- Safe Elephant – Safe management of productions
- Secret Compass – Production safety management (natural history) course
- Set Safe Ltd – Safety Management for film and high-end TV
BBC and BBC Studios Courses are for in-house staff and contracted BBC freelancers only. Please note that BBC Safe Management of TV Productions, News Assignment and Location Safety courses have now been replaced by Working Safely at the BBC eLearning and Safe Management of Productions modules, but existing certification will be honoured within the stated time period.
Please note that First Option Safe Management of Productions, Safe Management of Outside Broadcast, and Health and Safety for Location Managers courses have now been replaced by the First Option Risk Management of Productions course, but existing certification will still be valid within the stated time period.
- First Option – Safe management of stunts
- First Option – Senior managers’ briefing
- Dragon Water and Fire – Senior managers’ safety training
Some PSA courses formally known as X2, X3.5 or X4 may have been assessed against the X2, X3.5 or X4 criteria.