Who writes them and where they live
The Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee is made up of guild, union, and management representatives, and Contract Services posts the bulletins on its safety bulletins page. The page says bulletins may be reproduced and attached to call sheets or otherwise given to affected employees, which is how most crews see them.
They're numbered. A sampling from the list:
| # | Subject |
|---|---|
| 1 | Firearms, blanks, and dummy rounds |
| 4 | Stunts |
| 9 | Working in and around base camps |
| 10 | Artificially created atmospheric fog and haze |
| 16 | Pyrotechnic special effects |
| 17 | Water hazards |
| 20 | Motorcycles |
| 33 | Infant actors |
| 35 | Prevention of outdoor heat illness |
| 36 | Unmanned aircraft systems (drones) |
| 41 | Gimbals |
| 45 | Long or successive takes |
The full list runs past 40 bulletins and the committee revises them, so pull current copies rather than reusing a PDF from a past show.
How they get onto the call sheet
The 2nd AD goes through the day's scenes looking for hazards. Scene 31 on our diner shoot has rain towers at night in a parking lot and a picture car driving past camera. That's water on the ground near cables (#23 covers portable power distribution and electrical equipment), a moving vehicle near crew, and possibly a camera car (#8). A line on the front of the call sheet reads:
SAFETY: Rain effects and moving picture vehicle, sc. 31. Safety Bulletins #8 and #23 attached.
Safety meeting on set before first rehearsal of sc. 31.
The printed bulletins go behind the call sheet, and the 1st AD covers them at the safety meeting before the work starts.
Making the bulletins count
Attaching a bulletin nobody reads is the common failure. Mention the specific points that apply ("nobody crosses the car path after 'rolling'"), and have the stunt coordinator or effects supervisor lead that part of the meeting. Other problems: forgetting bulletins on days when the hazard isn't obvious from the scene heading, like heat on an exterior summer day, and missing them on company moves when the new location adds water or heights.
Related paperwork
Hazards should show up first in the script breakdown as stunts and effects elements, so the bulletins can be planned in prep. On the day, they ride with the call sheet. Any incident goes on the daily production report with the time and who was notified.