Broadcast news: to mark European Week the BBC organised a conference on health and safety in broadcasting. Tina Weadick went along to find out what practitioners in the TV industry are currently focusing on.(BROADCASTING SAFETY)

Publication: The Safety & Health Practitioner

Publication Date: 01-NOV-04

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SWALLOWING TAPEWORMS, JUMPING OUT OF MOVING vehicles, and climbing mountains are just some of the things the BBC has had its staff do over the years in the name of producing good television. BBC workers have had to operate among the bullets and bombs of war zones like Iraq to bring us up-to-the-minute news, and deal with tropical insects and temperatures to produce the wonderful natural history programmes for which the channel is famous.

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All of this, remarked director of BBC People, Stephen Dando, in his opening address to delegates at the 'Health and Safety in Broadcasting' conference, "makes our risk environment very dynamic. The broadcasting industry is an in...

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