Safety Officers

Here is how this works in practice. We place safety officers from Iceland's production-support community, most based in Reykjavík, giving risk assessment and on-set safety oversight scaled to a production's hazard profile. Our safety officers hold recognised Icelandic health and safety certifications, often with extra credentials in first aid, working at heights and specialty rescue, and they produce risk assessments and incident reports in both Icelandic and English. They survey locations, review scripts and production plans, and develop mitigation plans that satisfy both Icelandic occupational safety law and global shoots insurers.

Here is the short of it. They work closely with stunt coordinators on action sequences and conduct safety briefings for cast and crew. For large or stunt-heavy shoots we scale cover with extra safety staff, supplementing the Icelandic team with pros from the UK and mainland Europe under an Iceland-based lead. We also help shoots document qualifying safety provision against the 25% production cost reimbursement, rising to 35% for qualifying larger shoots and TV series.

Here is the breakdown. Iceland presents a safety officer with a genuinely demanding hazard environment. A subarctic, maritime island with famously fast-changing weather brings risk of hypothermia and exposure on Highland and glacier shoots. The geothermal areas around Mývatn and the Geysir region carry volcanic gas hazards. Glaciers such as Vatnajökull present crevasse danger. And the active volcanic zones around Reykjanes and Fagradalsfjall. This erupted from \1021 and 2023, add their own considerations. The country's occupational safety law is administered by the Administration of Occupational Safety and Health (Vinnueftirlitið).

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Filming in covered areas is set up with the Environment Agency of the country under strict 'leave no trace' practice. Productions from 'Interstellar' to 'Game of Thrones' relied on careful safety planning to shoot the country's extreme locations. A safety officer who knows these specific terrain and climate risks keeps a production both compliant and genuinely safe.