Health & Safety Compliance

Health and safety on Japanese sets sits inside the Industrial Safety and Health Act (rodo anzen eisei ho), run by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

Our compliance coordinators prepare a site-set risk review for each location. That might be a soundstage at Toho Studios in Setagaya, a rooftop set in Shinjuku, a temple courtyard in Kyoto, or a coastal site in Okinawa. Each plan lines up with UniJapan's well-known safety standards. The forms come in Japanese and English, so shoot accountants and ward officials sign off with no translation friction.

On the floor, MHLW-OK'd safety officers run pre-call briefings and watch stunts and special-effects rigs. They also manage PPE handout and keep digital health logs. Those logs feed automated reports back to the shoot office.

We line up medical standby with Tokyo and Osaka hospitals. For remote Hokkaido or Yakushima shoots, we map out evacuation routes. Cast and crew rehearse the event-response drills, and a twenty-four-hour watch stays live through principal photography. Across the past two hundred shoots under this frame, we have logged zero shoot shutdowns.

Compliance also means clean paperwork before a permit clears. Our team prepares the safety records that ward offices and the Tokyo Location Box expect with each application. We brief location owners on the controls in place and answer inspection questions in Japanese. The Japan Film Commission knows our filing standard well. Tidy records keep approvals on track and keep a late condition from stalling your call sheet.

Crew hours fall under the Japanese Labor Standards Act, so fatigue is a real safety risk. We help line producers build turnaround and rest into the schedule from the first draft. Each crew member sits through a site-specific briefing before the first setup. Stunt teams, riggers, and special-effects crews get extra walk-throughs. Clear rest planning keeps the unit sharp through long location days and night shoots.