Hazard 3: Asbestos
In December 1996, Pinewood Studios (UK) and Paramount Pictures (UK) were fined £10,000 plus costs for exposing 100 actors and crew to potentially lethal asbestos dust. During the shoot, asbestos pipe insulation was unwittingly disturbed by members of the film crew at a disused electricity generating building. The case highlights the need for adequate risk assessments before any work is undertaken.
Stage, Screen and Radio, Feb. 1997 p. 6
RPS Thompson Ltd has been fined £3500 with costs of £2664 after it admitted causing its subcontractor to breach asbestos regulations and for failing to protect persons not in its employment against risks from exposure to asbestos. The prosecution followed an incident in November 1997 when ...
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