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Movie Hazard Analysis #19 · Dye workshop finale

Drunken Master (1978)

Everyone watched the fight. The JHA watched the vats

The fight gets the attention. The quieter hazard was the open dye vats: unknown dye, unknown temperature, unknown depth.

Initial risk
12
HIGH
Residual risk
04
LOW

Probability × severity, before and after the JHA’s controls. The highest-scoring step sets each band.

Movie Hazard Analysis #19 cover: Drunken Master (1978)
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The work order

Movie Hazard Analysis #19 treats the dye workshop finale from Drunken Master (1978) as a real work order.

What moved the risk

Stopping the fight first, then isolating the vats, the overhead rigging, and the hot coal braziers, brings every step down to LOW.

FIELD NOTE

The transfer to real work. When the work moves unpredictably, stop it first. Then isolate what it could fall into.

Every hazard, control and risk number shown comes from the JHA itself; nothing is invented or rounded for effect. Inspired by Drunken Master (1978): commentary and hazard analysis of a fictional scene as depicted, with no affiliation with the film or its rights holders. The underlying JHA was generated with JHA Rapid, is AI-assisted, and must be reviewed by a qualified safety professional before use. Not a compliance document.

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