🧑🧑🧒🧒 Participant Relations
We foster a relaxed, fully informed and respective relationship with the people we work with to produce the Splat! Show.
Read on to learn more about our relationship with our participants, our model release forms and more!
Last Updated: November 6th 2024
Participant Relations and Care at The Splat! Show
We value the well-being and experience of everyone we work with and feature in our content. Below is an overview of our participant relations process, reflecting the practices and standards we’ve developed over our history.
Regular Review and Feedback Integration
Our participant relations processes are reviewed and updated regularly to maintain professionalism and ensure participant welfare. We welcome feedback from participants, which often shapes our ongoing improvements. We extend our thanks to all participants who have helped us refine our approach.
– December 2022: Introduction of a detailed onboarding procedure to enhance duty of care for participants.
Casting Process and Participant Awareness
Our participants are fully informed about The Splat! Show, its concept, and its audience. We encourage them to review our website thoroughly during casting, taking responsibility for understanding the nature of our content. In December 2022, we introduced an onboarding process to secure proof that participants have read all relevant materials. This ensures informed consent and allows participants to make an independent choice about participating.
Participants are regularly encouraged to ask questions, and we maintain an open environment during shoots to ensure comfort and clarity. Participants can view testimonials from prior collaborators by request. If issues arise, we promptly address them, even if it impacts us negatively.
Privacy and Release Forms
To protect privacy, we do not display participants’ full names without consent. Release forms are signed post-shoot, allowing participants control over the use of their content. If a participant wishes to withdraw consent after a release, we respect their decision. Forms are securely stored and made available to authorities if necessary.
Participant Offboarding and Support
Following each shoot, participants receive a support email with a dedicated contact channel for any further questions or concerns. We prioritize participant wellbeing and regularly assess our policies to maintain high standards of care.
Safe Environment and Equipment
The Gunge Tank and related equipment are maintained to prevent accidents. The environment is kept warm, and participants are briefed on health and safety before filming. Our gunge complies with industry standards, being both non-toxic and temperature-safe.
Health Incident Record Transparency Record
There have been zero recorded health and safety incidents since 2014 (show and site relaunch). There has been one minor health and safety incident since 2004 (under old management and before site / show relaunch).
Content Removal and Transparency
We uphold participants’ rights to request content removal. All removal requests have been honored. To further ensure privacy, we’ve collaborated with the Internet Archive to prevent archiving of past content.
Total number of accepted removal requests from participants since 2004: 0
Total number of removals before said season in which they featured was removed: 2.
One removal was due to actions of a participant that we longer wanted to be associated with due to their actions (unlawful action) after their shoot, unrelated to Splat! This removal was at our own discretion and we were not asked to remove said content.
The other removal was due to a participant changing their job and role and asked us to consider their content due the sensitive nature off their new role / responsibility. We accepted this request with no questioning and worked to remove their content from our site and all our social media channels.
Total number of denied removal requests from participants since 2004: 0
Historical Content and Standards
Since 2014, with new management, The Splat! Show has implemented a revised casting and production process that upholds enhanced standards. Content produced before 2014 is no longer for sale, although some are available on a limited basis on Retro Stream via The Splat! Show Fan Club (updated monthly). Some content from our past will never be released or displayed on this website again due to it not meeting our current content guidelines. We have been producing content for nearly 30 years and as such our tone and theme of content has changed over this time.
Our Legal Documents With Participants
As part of participant relations, we use legal documents to ensure our participants fully understand what they have agreed to participate in, their rights while and after they have worked with us. Participants can request copies of their completed forms but we keep our own copies too. We have provided blank copies of our pre-shoot agreement and post-shoot release forms below for you to review and as part of our commitment to transparency regarding our business and operations.
Pre-shoot Agreement: Our pre-shoot agreements are sent to participants before a shoot is completed. This document outlines what participants are agreeing to and the terms. Every person who shoots with us has to complete this form before a Splat! Show shoot takes place, and we keep them on file for verification.
Post-Shoot Release Form: This is a release form. This gives us legal consent from our participants to release the content in which they appear on our website. This form also outlines important information such as content removal requests and other important information. These forms are kept on file, and every participant who has content on this site has completed one of these release forms.
