Safety Officers

Here is how this works in practice. Film production safety in Peru is set by Ley 29783, the Ley de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo, and enforced through SUNAFIL — the Superintendencia Nacional de Fiscalización Laboral — with the SCTR workplace insurance regime backing crew injury and illness coverage across every shooting day.

Here is the short of it. The safety officers on our Peru roster hold the certifications needed to act as supervisores or jefes SSO under Ley 29783, with most carrying extra film-specific stunt and pyrotechnic credentials alongside BLS first-aid training and the altitude-medicine protocols key for HACE and HAPE prevention on Cusco shoots at 3,400 metres and on Andean passes climbing above 4,500 metres in the Sacred Valley, the Colca Canyon and toward the Cordillera Blanca. They write site-specific risk assessments before shoot days, file SCTR notifications when needed, and interface with SUNAFIL inspectors during pre-production walkthroughs at Lima production facilities, Andean village locations and Amazon basin sites out of Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado.

Here is the breakdown. On set, our Peruvian safety officers run pre-shoot location surveys, brief cast and crew in Spanish, English and Quechua at the start of each shooting day across the highlands, monitor stunt and pyrotechnic work alongside the stunt coordinator, supervise water sequences on the Pacific coast and Amazon tributaries, and manage the altitude-stress, hydration, supplemental oxygen and coca-leaf-tea protocols that Andean shoots in Cusco, the Sacred Valley, Lake Titicaca and the Colca Canyon routinely need.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. They handle Amazon-zone health protocols including yellow fever, dengue, malaria prophylaxis and leishmaniasis awareness for shoots out of Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado, set up emergency networks through Clínica Anglo-Americana in Lima and Clínica Pardo in Cusco, and pre-arrange ASIS DGCA medevac flights for remote Andean and Amazon locations. They liaise with SUNAFIL on incident reporting, set up with the Cruz Roja Peruana and SAMU emergency services, and produce bilingual safety records in Spanish and English that satisfies both Peruvian regulators and the global productions insurers underwriting the project. We match safety officers to productions based on the specific hazards in the script — altitude, jungle, water, stunts, vehicles — and keep deputies on standby so multi-unit Peruvian shoots keep unbroken safety coverage.