Health and Safety

Print Studio members and staff reflect on the changing attitude to Health and Safety over the decades, and the challenges to safe working provided by printing processes.

Image: The etching area of the Ingram Street workshop, around 1987 (Photograph © Glasgow Print Studio/Danny Harkins, ref GLAPS.2010.140)

Listen:

Roger Farnham - The development in the approach to Health & Safety

Harry Magee - Issues in the workshop with toxic photo etching chemicals, and changing processes

Bill Blacker - Reflecting on the use of solvents in the workshop and in the Art School

Sheena McGregor - Health and Safety at exhibition openings

Bob Hamilton - Electrics in the Gallery and fumes in the workshop

Jacki Parry - Reflecting on the Workshop, past and present

Image: Adrian Wiszniewski & Murray Robertson in the lithography area, 1987 (Photograph © Glasgow Print Studio, ref GLAPS.2011.234.13)

Image: : Stuart Duffin in the screenprint washout area, around 1990 (Photograph © Glasgow Print Studio, ref GLAPS.2012.76.11)