Health & Safety Compliance

Workplace safety on film sets in China is governed by the Work Safety Law of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国安全生产法), administered by the State Administration of Work Safety with provincial enforcement bureaus, and layered on top of the Labor Law of the PRC (劳动法), which mandates social insurance (社保) and work injury insurance (工伤保险) contributions for every crew member on a Chinese payroll.

Here is how this works in practice. The risk profile shifts dramatically across the country — a studio day at China Film Group's Huairou stages reads very differently to a high-altitude Tibetan plateau unit above 4,000m near Lhasa, a hot-and-humid Yangshuo karst exterior on the Li River, or a winter shoot at Mutianyu or Jinshanling sections of the Great Wall. Our safety planning starts with a written risk assessment for every location and unit, with safety officers vetted against the relevant State Administration of Work Safety credentials and equipped to brief crews bilingually in Mandarin and English. And Cantonese where Hong Kong border units need it.

Day-to-day execution turns those plans into routine. Stunt rigs, drone passes cleared under CAAC, water work along the Li River or Lake Tai, and any pyrotechnic effect get walked through with qualified personnel that PRC law needs, with entertainment insurance certificates from Ping An, China Life, or PICC entertainment lines prepared in parallel under CIRC oversight.

The picture on the ground is more specific. Altitude protocols cover acclimatization windows for crew arriving in Lhasa or Shangri-La from Beijing or Shanghai sea level, with rapid descent planning if HACE or HAPE symptoms present; humidity and heat protocols govern Guangzhou and Shenzhen summer days; winter cold weather protocols apply to Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia units. We coordinate on-set medics, plan hospital routes from Beijing's Peking Union and United Family, Shanghai Huashan, Hong Kong network providers, and provincial hospitals near Hengdian and Qingdao, and keep a clear escalation path for incidents so State Administration of Work Safety and provincial inspections close cleanly and shoots stay on schedule from Xinjiang to Hainan.