BBC 因前雇员间皮瘤死亡事件与 11 个家庭达成和解

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has recently paid several families £1.64 million for the deaths of 11 former staff who were exposed to asbestos and died from mesothelioma, and asbestos-related cancer. The BBC staff that was exposed to asbestos held positions such as: make-up artists, engineers, riggers, set builders, studio managers, and television producers from 1959 through 1998.

BBC 多个地点的工作人员都受到了感染，包括伦敦广播大楼、伯明翰 Pebble Mill 工作室、伦敦布什大厦、伦敦亚历山德拉宫和伦敦电视中心。

2006 年，BBC 警告员工，从 1990 年到 2005 年，他们可能在电视中心的三个演播室中接触过石棉。他们发现，石棉接触很可能是来自掉落在地板上的电缆管道中的石棉纤维。

BBC 承认，曾在《神秘博士》片场工作的布景制作人理查德·埃文斯 (Richard Evans) 因间皮瘤去世。他在上述几个使用 Artex（一种含有石棉的涂料）的地点工作过。