Health & Safety Compliance

Health and safety on a New York set runs through a stack of agencies, and each one carries real authority. OSHA federal rules set the baseline, while the NYC Department of Buildings governs structural and high-rise work. The FDNY supplies the required film safety officer on any high-rise shoot, pyrotechnic sequence, or fire stunt. It also signs off on standpipe and fire-watch protocols for stages at Steiner, Silvercup, and Broadway Stages. New York State workers' compensation and disability law covers each crew on each call sheet.

On top of that sit the IATSE safety bulletins and SAG-AFTRA stunt protocols that govern guild crews on most union shoots. The MOME COI needs fold insurance into the permit itself. The picture grows layered enough that most global producers want a dedicated safety lead from day one.

Our team builds the safety package around the script and the schedule. We run a risk assessment for each location — a Hudson Yards rooftop, a DUMBO cobblestone exterior, a Lower East Side fire escape, a Long Island City stage. Each plan logs hazard mitigation that holds up under OSHA, FDNY, and insurance-carrier review. The crew gets qualified safety coordinators, FDNY-cleared fire safety officers, certified medics, and on-set medical units. We brief everyone at the prep meeting, then run daily safety briefings through the shoot.

Stunt and SFX days carry extra pre-rigging walkthroughs and dedicated standby staff. Across more than two hundred New York shoots managed, the compliance rate sits at one hundred percent and the shutdown count stays zero. That record is what global financiers, the unions, and insurance houses like Front Row and Allianz Entertainment all need to see.