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Regardless of industry sector, all workers are entitled to reasonable protection from illness and injury – as such, those who are not and suffer as a result may pursue a work injury claim.
This universality of both entitlement to health and safety protection and the ability to make a work injury claim is rarely better exemplified than in the case of adult entertainment industry workers.
For example, in 2011 in the United States two film companies were fined for failing to ensure that adult entertainment actors wore condoms on set.
The risks facing such actors are clear – HIV, Hepatitis and other sexually transmitted diseases – and are in a sense analogous to those risks facing doctors, nurses and other medical workers in situations where they are required to wear protective gloves or masks to guard against blood-borne and fluid-borne illnesses and infections.
In fining the production companies involved, the Californian equivalent of the UK's Health and Safety Executive, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, commented that there had been a failure "to ensure the use of appropriate personal protective equipment to protect its employees" from potentially harmful bodily fluids secreted in the course of producing adult videos.
A spokesperson from UK no win, no fee claim specialist commented, "This American case, although unusual in that it concerns an area of work not considered part of the mainstream, is a useful illustration of the principles of good health and safety practice.
"All workers deserve protection from the specific and general risks of their workplaces. The obligation to provide workers with suitable personal protective equipment, in this case condoms, is a legal requirement in all developed nations such as the United States and the United Kingdom. Where this obligation has not been fulfilled, there can be no excuse.
"In fact, in 2008 some adult entertainment industry actors made successful work injury claims after being infected with HIV as a result of a production company's failure to provide condoms on set."
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Whether you have slipped or tripped at work, fallen from height in a ladder accident, suffered an infection or developed an industrial disease as a result of exposure to harmful working conditions, YouClaim can help you secure the full compensation you deserve.
As part of our commitment to ensure justice for genuine claimants, we provide a leading personal injury legal service that, win or lose, never costs them a single penny.
This means no costs, no fees, no disbursements and 100 per cent compensation – our no cuts promise.
All our personal injury solicitors work under the governance of the SRA (a branch of the Law Society) and share a commitment to a sensitive and jargon-free service.
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