EDIT SUITE VENTILATION & COVID. For years editors and directors /EPs have often had to work in windowless, airless 'cupboards'. Even bigger rooms with air conditioning can be problematic as these units simply cool the same stale air. Many coughs, colds and flu have begun in these windowless, air conditioned environments. The ventilation problem is at its worst in production companies own in-house edits, though a few facility houses also have windowless edit suites. The one certainty of Covid is that badly ventilated spaces pose the greatest risk.
Soon we will be venturing out of our safe homes to work in edit suites again (hooray) but how fit for purpose are many of these suites? From my experience working in London for decades, I would say that at least fifty percent of edits are internal, windowless with an air conditioning unit that doesn't extract stale air.
So what are broadcasters and production companies doing to ensure we can work in safe spaces? There are government guidelines in place but they can be all too easily ignored. Of course a vaccinated population will help but it's not enough.
Your thoughts would be appreciated.