The Wrap has reported that draft Lionsgate production safety guidelines have been leaked.

Lionsgate has said the draft has seen numerous revisions since. It promotes four main steps to success: distance, sanitation, enforcement and change, and also specifies:

• Maintain a distance of six feet at all times
• Use VR scouting of locations
• Workers should undergo complete quarantine (as paid hold days) for two weeks prior to shooting and two weeks after the shoot
• Restrict shooting to 10-hour days
• Permit no non-essential personnel on set or in production offices
• Cast and crew should receive health and body temperature checks when entering sets or offices
• No crew member should be near cast unless they are part of the makeup, hair, sound or wardrobe departments and are wearing masks and gloves
• Divide lunch breaks into two times
• On-set meals should be ordered and packaged individually
• Talent should consider personalized drivers
• Use CG extras.

Read the new safety guidelines at Scribd.

My take: film production, like all businesses, needs to find the tricky balance between profit and people. No one wants to infect, and potentially kill, someone, but most people are obliged to work to pay their bills, and corporations want to provide their services to society. I just wish we had a Universal Basic Income so only those folks that truly want to work would have to, and perhaps at reduced hours. A ten-hour shooting day sounds ideal!