Medical Services

Here is how the work lines up. On-set medical provision in New York runs against an exact regulatory backbone — federal OSHA workplace safety standards with the OSHA 30 certification mandate that NYC shoots routinely need, NY State Department of Labor occupational safety rules, NY State Workers' Compensation, the FDNY film safety officer mandate that applies above 50 feet above grade and on any special-effects sequence, IATSE Local 161 (the East Coast safety officer local), the EMS Local 2507 paramedic chain, and the SAG-AFTRA Local 1 / DGA East medical protocols that govern stunt and effects coverage.

Here is the layout. Our medical pros work to all of it. They are AED-trained set medics and NYC-licensed paramedics drawn from the FDNY EMS, NY-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai, Bellevue, NYU Langone and Lenox Hill networks, fluent in 911 dispatch protocols and the trauma-centre referrals at the closest hospital on each shooting day. Risk assessments are written to OSHA, NY State and global production insurance language in parallel. This keeps the production carrier, the completion bond and the FDNY safety officer on the same page across each shooting day.

Here is how the work shapes up. The terrain dictates the cover. Summer shoots on Coney Island Boardwalk, Brooklyn Bridge Park, the High Line, Hudson Valley estates and Long Island Hamptons carry heat-illness, dehydration and humidity protocols with shaded prep, electrolyte stations and ice-vest provisioning, with hospital routing through NY-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai and NYU Langone mapped to the basecamp. Winter shoots across Manhattan, Brooklyn brownstone blocks, the Catskills and Adirondack peaks add hypothermia kits, hand and foot warmers and cold-weather provisioning.

Here is how it adds up. Nor'easter coastal shoots get water-safety planning and storm-watch planning through the National Weather Service NYC office. Manhattan urban shoots inside MOME (Made in NY) permits stage hospital routing through Bellevue, Mount Sinai or NY-Presbyterian by NYPD Movie & TV Unit-cleared corridors with pre-cleared ambulance lanes. For stunt and special-effects sequences we add boosted cover with extra paramedics and FDNY film safety officers attached as the OSHA 30 mandate and the production carrier need.

Here is the run-down. For remote interior shoots in the Adirondacks, Catskills and upstate Hudson Valley we plan around extended ambulance response times with on-site advanced first aid and pre-arranged hospital helipad planning. Records closes back to NY State Workers' Compensation and the production accountant for the Empire State Development tax-credit certification file.