Safety Officers

Film production safety in Peru is set by Ley 29783, the Ley de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo. SUNAFIL — the Superintendencia Nacional de Fiscalización Laboral — enforces it. The SCTR workplace insurance regime backs crew injury and illness cover across each shooting day.

The safety officers on our Peru roster hold the certifications needed to act as supervisores or jefes SSO under Ley 29783. Most also carry extra film-specific stunt and pyrotechnic credentials, plus BLS first-aid training. They know the altitude-medicine protocols that prevent HACE and HAPE on Cusco shoots at 3,400 metres and on Andean passes above 4,500 metres in the Sacred Valley, the Colca Canyon and toward the Cordillera Blanca. Before shoot days, they write site-specific risk assessments and file SCTR notifications when needed. They also meet SUNAFIL inspectors during pre-production walkthroughs at Lima production facilities, Andean village locations and Amazon basin sites out of Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado.

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

Our officers handle Amazon-zone health protocols for shoots out of Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado, covering yellow fever, dengue, malaria prophylaxis and leishmaniasis awareness. They set up emergency networks through Clínica Anglo-Americana in Lima and Clínica Pardo in Cusco. For remote Andean and Amazon locations, they pre-arrange ASIS DGCA medevac flights. They liaise with SUNAFIL on incident reporting and link up with the Cruz Roja Peruana and SAMU emergency services. They also produce bilingual safety records in Spanish and English that satisfy both Peruvian regulators and the global-shoot insurers funding the project. We match safety officers to shoots by the hazards in the script — altitude, jungle, water, stunts, cars — and keep deputies on standby so multi-unit Peruvian shoots hold unbroken safety coverage.