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GB 249 SAND/1/5 · File · c.1981
Part of M. J. Sanders papers

Handwritten draft (unidentified hand) on 'Safety precautions working with Donnington samples' and handwritten draft (another unidentified hand, with annotations by M J Sanders) 'Survey of dust arising from site clearance at the Donnington Ordnance Depot.

Describes project of pollution monitoring exercise (at the request of the Bird Group) "to assess and advise on the levels obtaining during site clearance of a [brick] building gutted by fire"; the building had a steel and asbestos roof and measured c.200 x 200 m.

M. J. Sanders papers
GB 249 SAND · Collection · c.1958-1991

Documents the activities of the safety officer of a national environmental research laboratory in the late 1960s.

At the time, new regulations concerning asbestos were in the making. The Warren Spring Laboratory (WSL) was asked to look into their implications for working environments in Mintech (Ministry of Technology) establishments. The core of the M J Sanders papers consists of a series of minutes of meetings and draft reports, relating mainly to asbestos. The remainder is publications, with very occasional intercalations of correspondence.

Books and booklets found with the material have been transferred to the OEDA Library and can be identified through the University of Strathclyde Library catalogue.

Sanders, M.J., fl. 1960-1999, health and safety expert
GB 249 SAND/1/6 · File · c.1967-c.1981
Part of M. J. Sanders papers

Notes in M J Sanders hands, n.d. Also product specs for Sindanyo non-asbestos heat resisting boards, including samples, and the following sets of photographs:

  • black and white photographs showing details of a machine at the WSL with instructions to operate it only when the water is running
  • black and white photographs of air pollution measuring equipment and extensive documentation of a suspected asbestos tip
  • black and white photograph of an asbestos fume cupboard at WSL
  • black and white photograph of tissue cut for analysis (wet, formalin fixed lung tissue, 1.5 grms) and nuclepore filter (pore size 0.2 microns) with gold support grid for carbon film
GB 249 SAND/1/1 · File · 1967
Part of M. J. Sanders papers
  • manuscript draft 'The interest of WSL in asbestos', dating this back to a survey of the use of asbestos including crocidolite in Mintech (Ministry of Technology) establishments, January 1967
  • typescript 'Work of WSL on asbestos' n.d.
  • typescript notes on a visit to MRC Air Pollution Unit, Medical College St Barts, 17 July 1967
  • photocopy of report (by M J Sanders) of British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) conference, Newcastle, 12 September 1967
  • BOHS Committee on Hygienic Standards draft 'A hygienic standard for chrysotile asbestos dust' (September 1967, for discussion at BOHS EC meeting 28 September 1967)
  • M J Sanders' minutes of a discussion of the Mintech Sub-Committee of the Asbestos Working Party, London School of Hygiene, 25 October 1967. Further includes Sanders' personal aide memoir of a discussion at Tilbury House, Treasury Medical Service (TMS), 25 October 1967. The members of the Sub-Committee were A Mendoza, Gerard Lorriman of the TMS, Dr Chambers, J Parker (AP Division WSL) and Sanders
  • typescript paper (by M J Sanders) 'Sampling and measurement of asbestos in air', outlining the Mintech Safety Officers' interest in the problem and the WSL's activities regarding asbestos sampling
  • manuscript minutes (by M J Sanders) of a discussion at the Chemistry Department, Reading University, 8 November 1967. Participants included P F Holt (head of the Chemistry Department, University of Reading), Gerard Lorriman, J Parker and Sanders
  • manuscript note 'Draft asbestos regulations', 28 November 1967
  • typescript summary (by J Parker), 'Sampling techniques for asbestos dust', 8 December 1967
GB 249 SAND/1/2 · File · 1968
Part of M. J. Sanders papers
  • minutes (taken by M J Sanders) of a discussion at HM Chemical Inspectorate, Baynards House, 8 January 1968
  • programme and M J Sanders' report of a meeting at the MRC Pneumoconiosis Research Unit, Llandough Hospital, Penarth, 31 January 1968
  • M J Sanders' manuscript 'Notes for a paper on "Asbestos - a new health hazard?"', for presentation at the SE Industrial Safety Group, 1968. Includes black and white photographs of asbestos under electron microscope
  • papers relating to a meeting on 'Determination of airborne asbestos', convened by Warren Spring Laboratory at Millbank Tower, Millbank, London, 9 May 1968. Includes agenda and discussion paper by S G Luxon on 'Measurement of asbestos dust concentrations'

Stuart Luxon was HM Superintending Chemical Inspector of Factories and Director of the Industrial Hygiene Unit in the Department of Employment.

GB 249 SAND/1/3 · File · 1969
Part of M. J. Sanders papers

Includes 'Minute of visit to Turner & Newall, Rochdale, 20 December 1969' and papers re an asbestos conference organised by the Asbestosis Research Council (ARC), London, 18 June 1969.

The reason given for visiting Turner & Newall was: "WSL had been asked to look into the problems of monitoring working environments in Mintech [Ministry of Technology] establishments in regard to airborne asbestos; having in mind the requirements of the draft Regulations on Asbestos. Furthermore, the A.P. [Air Pollution] Division of WSL were concerned in monitoring environments other than factories. Another interest was in regard to respirators and finally he [M J Sanders] himself had an interest in the disposal of asbestos waste representing a concern of the Mintech Safety Officers."

GB 249 SAND/1/4 · File · 1970
Part of M. J. Sanders papers

Manuscript draft of 'Report of the asbestos committee to Mintech Safety Officers Conference', November 1970, and photocopy of manuscript draft 'Asbestos Regulations 1969: a review for the guidance of staff at Warren Spring Laboratory', July 1970.

Further includes notes re photographs of electron microscopy "of Millipore Filter from an AP [air pollution] sample" and the photographs in question, January 1970.

For 'Mintech', read 'Ministry of Technology'.

GB 249 SAND/1 · Series · 1967-1981
Part of M. J. Sanders papers

Mostly handwritten notes and drafts of minutes and reports, or carbon copies. Originally contained multiple copies, which have been disposed of in line with our appraisal policy. In chronological order.

From the mid-1960s asbestos began to form a focus of attention for the Warren Spring Laboratory (WSL), in particular of its Air Pollution Division. The institution was asked to look into the problems of monitoring working environments in Mintech (Ministry of Technology) establishments in regard to airborne asbestos, in conjunction with the requirements of the draft Regulations on Asbestos. WSL safety officer M J Sanders also had (in his own words) "an interest in the disposal of asbestos waste representing a concern of the Mintech Safety Officers".

GB 249 SAND/2/1 · File · c.1958-1991
Part of M. J. Sanders papers

Photocopies of research papers, in alphabetical order by surname of (first-named) author. Includes a letter from Caswell Environmental Services Ltd to M J Sanders' successor as safety officer at the Warren Spring Laboratory.