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The Prop Building Guidebook, 3rd Edition
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The Prop Building Guidebook, 3rd Edition

by Eric Hart
December 2023
Intermediate to advanced
412 pages
21h 14m
English
Routledge
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2 Safety and Health

DOI: 10.4324/9781003244240-2

Prop making is a dangerous occupation. Tools can cut, and machines can maim. Chemicals can irritate your skin, damage your brain, and even cause cancer.

A safety hazard causes immediate harm, such as falling off a ladder. A health hazard causes delayed, cumulative harm, such as inhaling toxic vapors. If you wish to continue to work in props throughout your life, you need to understand and minimize the safety and health hazards inherent in this occupation.

This book introduces proper safety practices. The specific chemicals and tools we use may require precautions which differ from general safety recommendations. There are simply too many materials and machines out there to describe the safe use ...

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