Alan Dalton was a campaigner on workplace safety, health and environmental hazards for nearly thirty years and has been described as ‘an under-their-skin irritant to dangerous industries and their friends’ [obituary by Rory O’Neil in the Guardian, 16 December 2003].
He was born in May 1946 in West Ham, London, where his parents worked at the Silvertown Tate and Lyle sugar factory. After gaining a BSc in Chemistry at the University of Bath, he worked for several years as a research and development chemist in the pharmaceutical industry. In 1974, his career changed direction with his appointment as Research Fellow in Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety at the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science, where he led the Society’s campaign on asbestos and helped found 'Hazards Bulletin', a grassroots safety magazine. In 1978, he was appointed Lecturer in Health and Safety at South West London College. In 1979, he published 'Asbestos: Killer Dust' and was subsequently sued for libel by a doctor whom he criticised in the book for his pro-industry views and advocacy of the safe use of asbestos. Dalton lost the case and was bankrupted by the legal bill. He continued, however, to champion grassroots workplace and environmental activism, holding a succession of different roles: from 1981 to 1989, he was Researcher in Health and Safety at the Labour Research Department; from 1990 to 1992, he was Consultant, Lecturer and part-time Fellow at Camden Occupational Health Project; from 1992 to 1994, he was Senior Lecturer in Safety, Health and Environment at South Bank University; from 1995 to 1998, he was Health and Safety Co-ordinator at the Transport and General Workers’ Union, where he nurtured a new network of union safety representatives and forced environmental issues to the centre of the union safety agenda; from 1999 to 2001, he was a community representative on the board of the Environment Agency; and in 2000, he became part-time Senior Environmental Adviser at the Centre for Environmental Quality at the University of East London. In 2000, he published 'Consensus kills'.He died in December 2003.
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Correspondence and papers from most of Dalton's career. The collection includes:
- papers on Dalton's career and the libel cases brought against him
- correspondence and papers originating from Dalton's roles at the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science, the Transport and General Workers' Union, the Environment Agency and others
- correspondence with fellow activists, occupational health experts, academics, doctors, solicitors, politicians, trade unionists, campaign groups, asbestos victim support groups and others
- subject files on environmental and occupational health issues, particularly asbestos
- publications by Dalton and letters to the press
- consultancy and expert witness work
- notes and papers from conferences and meetings
- correspondence and papers relating to Dalton's involvement in the production of television and radio programmes on asbestos, together with a series of video recordings and transcripts of documentaries and other programmes collected by Dalton on asbestos and other environmental and occupational health and safety topics.
- press cuttings on asbestos and other environmental and occupational health issues
- Dalton's library of books, academic papers, reports and other publications on asbestos and other environmental and occupational health issues
The collection when donated was in a state of considerable disorder. Wherever possible, it has been arranged to reflect Dalton's own arrangement. It was clear, for example, that he maintained separate series for the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science, the Environment Agency, the Health and Safety Executive, trade unions, campaign groups, press cuttings, academic papers and an extensive series of subject files. Other parts of the collection, where the original order was not apparent, particularly his extensive correspondence with fellow activists and other individuals, have had an order (eg by correspondent) imposed on them by the cataloguing archivist.
Access to a few files is restricted in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation. Where there are restrictions, these are noted at the appropriate point in the catalogue. Otherwise the collection is open.
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Correspondence and papers on Dalton's career, libel cases brought against him and his health.
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- Correspondence and papers, 1984-1990, on Dalton’s bankruptcy as a result of a libel action by Dr. Robert Murray for comments by Dalton in his book ‘Asbestos: Killer Dust'
- Correspondence and papers, 1984-1986, on a libel action by Dr. B.V. Lee for comments made by Dalton about Lee’s study on the hazards of visual display units at work for pregnant women
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Includes correspondence on Dalton’s request for upgrading.
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Includes court papers.
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Includes Dalton’s curriculum vitae, 2001.
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The British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS) was a radical science movement most active in the 1970s. It was formed in 1968 in opposition to university research on chemical and biological weapons, and supported by 83 distinguished scientists, including William Bragg, Francis Crick, Julian Huxley and Bertrand Russell. Nobel laureate Maurice Wilkins was the founding President. The Society's main aims were to raise awareness of the social responsibilities of scientists, the political aspect of science and technology, and to create an informed public.
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Dalton was Research Fellow in Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety at the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS) from 1974 to 1978 and subsequently on the editorial board of Hazards magazine, the magazine on health and safety in the workplace produced by the BSSRS. This series comprises papers and correspondence originating from both these roles, including an incomplete run of Hazards magazine.
In chronological order.
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Part of file restricted in compliance with General Data Protection Regulation.
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Issues of Hazards Bulletin (from 1984 Hazards), a magazine on health and safety in the workplace produced by the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS). Incomplete.
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Published by British Society for Social Responsibility in Science.
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The communications are on environmental and occupational health issues (mainly asbestos-related).
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Relates to editorial decisions.
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Annotated by O’Neill.
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Correspondence and papers relating to trade unions. Some of the series originates from Dalton's role, between 1995 and 1998, as Health and Safety Co-ordinator at the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) but there is also some earlier and later material relating to the TGWU as well as some material relating to other trade unions. Includes correspondence, reports, press releases, newsletters and instructional/informational publications.
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Dalton was Health and Safety Co-ordinator at the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) from 1995 to 1998. This subseries comprises TGWU papers and correspondence from this period as well as some earlier and later material.
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Includes:
- papers re strike over asbestos by building workers at Barbican Arts Centre in London, 1976-1977
- letter plus papers to Franklin from John Todd, member of branch committee of Glasgow Insulation Workers branch of TGWU. Todd was a lagger and asbestosis sufferer.
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Report produced for the T&G by the Labour Research Department. The survey was conducted as part of the launch of the inaugural issue of the union's magazine 'Health and Safety Record'.
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Correspondence and papers from the TUC. Includes:
- press releases and newsletters on asbestos
- evaluation of Health and Safety Executive’s asbestos awareness campaign, 1996
- report on seminar on synthetic mineral fibres held at Health and Safety Executive, 1997
- briefing re Workers’ Memorial Day, 2001
- 'Asbestos. Survey and manage asbestos in buildings now. No hiding place.'. Hazards Campaign/TUC guide, c. 2002.
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Letter to Dalton from Colin Lambert, National Director, Health and Safety Branch, Canadian Union of Public Employees, enclosing Canadian Labour Congress policy paper on just transition for workers during environmental change, April 1999.
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Letter to Dalton from Cathy Walker, Canadian Auto Workers Union.
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Report entitled 'Towards sustainable industrial development in construction, wood and forestry'.
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'Danger. Asbestos causes cancer' poster.
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Asbestos guide photographic supplement. Shows examples of asbestos in poor condition in different situations.
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'Asbestos - still a risk!' Unison health and safety information sheet.
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1994 issue of 'ICEF Focus on health, safety and the environment' plus page from 1993 issue. Both annotated by Dalton.
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Leaflet entitled 'Asbestos - the killer' published by the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions.
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Dalton was a community representative on the board of the Environment Agency from 1999 to 2001 when he was fired. The bulk of this series originates from that role.
In chronological order.
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Includes:
- press releases from Environment Agency about prosecutions
- email announcements from London Hazards Centre about prosecutions
- list produced by Environment Agency of all prosecutions between 1 April 2000 and 31 March 2001
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Concerns Michael Ryan’s campaign against workplace stress at the Environment Agency.
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Visit by Alan Dalton, as Environment Agency North East Region board member, to project in Walker, Newcastle designed to stop contamination seeping into the Tyne. Includes comments by Dalton on the structure and practices of the Environment Agency.
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Includes published report (3 volumes).
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Inlcudes correspondence, notes, press coverage.
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Includes correspondence between Dalton and Sir John Harman, chairman of the Environment Agency.
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Includes 1 floppy disk.
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Dalton accused the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) of a lack of openness about its enforcement record and requested information under its open-government policy. He subsequently complained about the HSE to the Ombudsman. This series includes correspondence and papers about those requests and complaints.
The series also includes correspondence and papers resulting from other interactions between Dalton and the HSE. There is, for example, correspondence between Dalton and the HSE on asbestos-related topics. There are also papers on the proposed amendments to the control of asbestos at work regulations, papers on the HSE campaign to increase awareness of duty to manage risks from asbestos in the workplace as well as various HSE circulars, press releases and leaflets, mainly on asbestos.
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- Health and Safety Executive Field Operations Division circulars to factory, agricultural, quarry, railway and other specialist inspectors, 1982-1995.
- Health and Safety Executive/Local Authority Enforcement Liaison Committee (HELA) circulars to local authority enforcement officers, 1996.
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Includes consultative document.
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Includes:
- Correspondence between Dalton and Health and Safety Executive
- Report by Parliamentary Ombudsman of investigation into complaint by Dalton against Health and Safety Executive, 1997. The complaint concerned request for information from the Health and Safety Executive under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.
- Report by Parliamentary Ombudsman of investigation into complaint by Dalton, T&GWU, against Health and Safety Executive,1998. Dalton complained that HSE refused to disclose information on the Health and Safety Executive’s enforcement of stress law in the workplace which should have been made available under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.
- Press cuttings and letter on special monitoring by Health and Safety Executive of persistent enquirers for information (including Dalton), 1997-1998
- Letters from Dalton on survey of TUC nominated members of HSC/HSE committees.
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Includes press coverage.
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- 'Asbestos and You. Asbestos dust kills. Are you at risk?', 1996.
- 'Asbestos dust kills. Keep your mask on. Guidance for employees on wearing respiratory protective equipment for work with asbestos', 1997.
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Includes consultative document 129, 1998.
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Includes:
- HSE press release
- press coverage
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The guidance (ref MDHS 100) was part of the Methods for the Determination of Hazardous Substances series.
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Revised proposals for amendments to the control of asbestos at work regulations and a new supporting approved code of practice.
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Proposals for amendments to the existing two approved codes of practice which support the control of asbestos at work regulations.
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Correspondence and papers originating from Dalton's interactions with various campaign and support groups. Most of the groups were concerned with asbestos.
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The International Ban Asbestos Secretariat (IBAS) was established in 2000 to provide a conduit for the exchange of information between groups and individuals working to achieve a global asbestos ban and to alleviate the damage caused by widespread asbestos use. It channels the views of a network of victims' groups, medical and legal professionals and concerned individuals. It was co-ordinated by Laurie Kazan-Allen.
Laurie Kazan-Allen studied history at Brandeis University (BA 1969). She is the founding editor, in 1990, of the 'British asbestos newsletter' (BAN), a quarterly publication distributed to victim support groups, environmentalists, solicitors, academics, medical personnel and research bodies in over thirty countries. Since 1999, Kazan-Allen has been as the coordinator of the International Ban Asbestos Secretariat. She is the sister of American asbestos litigator Steven Kazan.
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The British Asbestos newsletter was a quarterly publication distributed worldwide to solicitors, victim support groups, academics, medical personnel and research bodies. It was founded and co-ordinated by Laurie Kazan-Allen, coordinator of the International Ban Asbestos Secretariat.
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Communications (mainly emails) sent to Dalton and other activists informing them of developments around the world regarding banning asbestos.
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Correspondence between Dalton and Patrick Herman, co-ordinator of Ban Asbestos Network. Includes article by Dalton entitled ‘Fighting asbestos hazards in the UK’ for Ban Asbestos Network’s ‘Black Book on Asbestos’.
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Letter from Caroline Bedale, Greater Manchester Hazards Centre, to Hazards Campaign mailing list, on European Network.
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The London Hazards Centre was established in 1984 to help Londoners enforce their right to live and work in safe, healthy environments. It's objectives were to develop cooperative relations and joint campaigns, conferences and other events with sister national organisations and with London area organisations engaged in promoting health and safety in the home, workplace and community and to provide easily-accessible health and safety advice, education and training, particularly targeted at minorities and hard-to-reach groups most exposed to risk. It supported the Construction Safety Campaign, the Battersea Crane Disaster Action Group, and carried out asbestos support work.
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Email communications to health and safety listservs from the London Hazards Centre on environmental and occupational health issues (mainly asbestos-related) in the news. Also includes some non-email correspondence and papers sent to Dalton by the Centre.
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Notice from West of Scotland Hazards Group about Workers’ Memorial Day.
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Letter to Dalton from Charlie Kavanagh, Occupational Health Worker, Liverpool Occupational Health Project, enclosing interim report for its safety and support project, December 1996.
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Letters to Dalton from Bill Lawrence, Tyneside Occupational Health Project. Includes:
- papers on state benefits for asbestos disease, 2000, 2002
- letter from Lawrence to Stephen Byres, MP, on liquidation of Iron Trades Employers Association, January 2001
- correspondence and papers on new drug treatments for mesothelioma, 2002
- Trade Union Studies Information Unit Health & Safety News, 2002
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Industrial Deaths Support and Advocacy leaflet.
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Letters to Dalton from Battersea Redevelopment Action Group re asbestos and demolition activities on Morgan crucible site, Battersea.
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- press release from Construction Safety Campaign announcing protest over asbestos dumping prosecution in Birmingham, 1997
- Construction Safety Campaign News, December 1999
- circular from Construction Safety Campaign on proposed changes to Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations, 2000
- Construction Safety Campaign flyer calling for protest re asbestos, c.2000
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Cheshire Asbestos Victims Support Group leaflet.
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Communications and leaflets from Clydebank Asbestos Group. Includes paper about Chester Street financial scandal.
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- Correspondence and papers on John Macpherson, Glasgow shipyard worker who won compensation case in 1985 against Alexander Stephen and Sons and Upper Clyde Shipbuilders for exposure to asbestos
- ‘Clydeside Action on Asbestos: aims and outline’ booklet, 1992
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Hull Asbestos Action Group was formed by Richard Jackson, a trade union safety representative and anti-asbestos campaigner, in the early 1980s. It started as an action group to monitor the attitudes of local authorities following the showing on television of a programme called ‘Alice: a fight for life”. It later became an asbestos victim support group.
Richard Jackson was a trade union safety representative who founded the Hull Asbestos Action Group in the early 1980s. He died of mesothelioma in 1994.
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One file is restricted in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation. Otherwise no access restrictions.
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Includes:
- account by Jackson of his exposure to asbestos and campaign work
- papers on industrial disease compensation claims supported by Jackson
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Includes press cuttings about asbestos.
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Includes:
- page outlining aims of group
- annual reports, 1992-1993
- leaflets
- translation of article by Annie Thebaud about experience of trade unionist in Brazil, 1994
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Dissertation by Douglas Raymond Murray for MA in Management Studies at University of Hull.
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Includes:
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- press cuttings
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In chronological order.
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Sent in 2000 by Ian Morris, JTUC, to John Flanagan.
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Encloses correspondence about the panel.
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Report by Building Services Team, London Borough of Camden. Sent to Dalton for comments by John Flanagan.
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'Asbestos Killer Dust' leaflet.
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Includes:
- letters from Nancy Tait, founder of SPAID, to Dalton
- correspondence on Nancy Tait’s husband, who died of mesothelioma
- SPAID/OEDA publications
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Correspondence between Dalton and Pauline Bonney, Southeast Asbestos Awareness and Support. Includes account of Pauline Bonney’s husband, John Bonney, who died of mesothelioma after exposure to asbestos.
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West Yorkshire Asbestos Action Group poster.
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Copy of conference paper by John Hoskins, independent consultant, entitled 'Asbestos, useful friend or deadly foe?'
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- press release about study of risks from mining and milling of chrysotile (white) asbestos, 1998
- leaflets about Society and responsibilities of employers, c. 2000
- copies from British Occupational Hygiene Society Occupational Hygiene newsletter of articles by Jeff Friar relating to asbestos, 2001.
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Correspondence between Dalton and fellow activists, occupational health experts, historians, scientists, doctors, solicitors and others.
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Correspondence between Dalton and Barry Castleman, environmental consultant, on asbestos-related issues. Subjects include Turner & Newall (including copies of Turner & Newall correspondence, 1938-1964), Richard Doll, Irving Selikoff, World Trade Organization asbestos case.
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Geoffrey Tweedale was Professor of Business History at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. He has a long-standing interest in the history of occupational health and has written studies on asbestos-related diseases, byssinosis, silicosis, and cancers in the chemical and cotton industries.
His publications relating specifically to the asbestos industry include:
- 'Magic mineral to killer dust: Turner & Newall and the asbestos hazard' (2nd edition, 2001: Oxford University Press)
- (with Laurie Flynn) 'Piercing the corporate veil: Cape Industries and multinational corporate liability for a toxic hazard, 1950-2004', 'Enterprise and society' 8 (2) (2007), 268-296, DOI: 10.1017/S1467222700005863
- (with Jock McCulloch) 'Defending the indefensible: the global asbestos industry and its fight for survival (2008: Oxford University Press)
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Correspondence between Dalton and Geoffrey Tweedale, Manchester Metropolitan University. Includes:
- correspondence, February 1999, about Tweedale’s book ‘Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard’ including copy of last two chapters of book annotated by Dalton. Also, explanation by Dalton of what triggered his own interest in asbestos.
- article by Geoffrey Tweedale on the Asbestos Research Council, 2000
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Correspondence between Dalton and Morris Greenberg, physician, on asbestos-related issues. Subjects include asbestos exposure and dockers. Also included are copies of Turner & Newall correspondence on TUC submission to Advisory Committee on Asbestos, 1977.
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Correspondence between Jim Brophy, Executive Director, Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers, and Dalton and other asbestos activists on asbestos in Canada and other countries.
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Letters to Dalton from Dieter Helm, New College, Oxford, 1999, enclosing copies of his papers on sustainable development (1998) and British environmental regulation (1992).
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Proofs for book on asbestos entitled ‘We Die as Best We Can’ by Jim Burns.
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Correspondence between Dalton and Steve Tombs, sociologist, Wolverhampton Polytechnic, on industrial accidents in the chemical industry. Includes two academic papers, 1990 and 1991, written by Tombs.
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Letter to Dalton from Courtney Davis enclosing draft of University of Southampton PhD thesis by Davis entitled ‘Corporate violence, regulatory agencies and the management and deflection of censure’.
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Correspondence between Dalton and Professor F.D.K. Liddell on research by Liddell on asbestos.
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Letter to Dalton from Eva Delgado, Alianza Frente al Asbesto, on asbestos in Peru. Encloses Alianza Frente Al Asbesto bulletins, 1994, and photograph of interior of asbestos fibre factory in Peru.
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Letter to Dalton from Nick Wikeley, Professor of Law, University of Southampton enclosing the following academic papers on asbestos:
- Peter Bartrip, ‘Too little too late? The Home Office and the Asbestos Industry Regulations, 1931’. Medical History, 1998, 42.
- Nick Wikeley, ‘The first common law claim for asbestosis: Kelly v. Turner & Newall Ltd (1950)’ Journal of Personal Injury Litigation, 1998, Issue 3/98.
- Nick Wikeley, ‘Turner & Newall: Early organizational responses to litigation risk’. Journal of Law and Society, 1997, Vol 24, No 2.
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Correspondence with Alex Horne, of Armadale Community Council, on asbestos dumping at Bathville, Armadale, West Lothian.
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Letter from N.C. Young, Director of City Special Waste Ltd, on letter from Dalton in the Independent on asbestos removal companies.
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Correspondence between Dalton and G.C. Ferguson, Consultant Physician, Northampton General Hospital on two cases of domestic exposure to asbestos. Includes article by Ferguson submitted to British Medical Journal.
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Letter to Dalton from Robin Rudd, consultant physician, London Chest Hospital, recommending Nancy Tait of SPAID as a contact.
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Letter to Dalton at the Labour Research Department from Steve Coleman, Senior Orthopaedic Registrar, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Australia, about power saw hand injuries. Includes photographs of hand injuries.
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Letter to Dalton from Stephen Hughes, MEP, on opinion of European Commission’s Committee on Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment with regard to banning chrysotile.
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Correspondence between Dalton and Alex Reid, Donisthorpe and Co Ltd, on asbestos and railway workers. Includes correspondence between Dalton and British Railways Board.
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Letters to Dalton from Professor Paul Holt, Department of Chemistry, University of Reading on calcium silicate. Includes summary of study at Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, into toxicology of calcium silicate.
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Letter to Dalton from Mark Piney enclosing copy of University of Aston in Birmingham PhD thesis by Piney entitled ‘The development of chemical exposure limits for the workplace’, October 1989.
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Communications to Dalton from Charles Wolfson, Department of Social and Economic Research, University of Glasgow, enclosing a conference paper and article by Wolfson on the Piper Alpha disaster.
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Letter to Dalton from Vanja Orlans, Stress Research and Control Centre, Department of Occupational Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, enclosing materials on stress. Includes Stress Research and Control Centre publications list and report of survey of stress management and prevention facilities in a sample of UK organisations and Health Education Service general information leaflet on stress.
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Includes copy of opening statements, 31 October 1995, in Chase Manhattan Bank v. Turner & Newall plc trial.
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Subjects include two medical workers who were mesothelioma sufferers. Also includes Irwin Mirchell newsletter, c. 1998.
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Concerns attempts to end employers’ liability insurance system in UK.
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Correspondence between Dalton and various contacts, mostly on asbestos. Includes email communications to health and safety listservs to which Dalton belonged.
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Series of files on asbestos-related topics. Some files were created by Dalton in the course of a single role, eg as Researcher in Health and Safety at the Labour Research Department, whereas other files span more than one role.
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Folder of material gathered by Dalton on the history of the awareness and knowledge of the risks of asbestos. Numbered and annotated by Dalton. Includes copies of:
- annual reports and correspondence of Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops, 1898-1947
- Home Office reports, 1930-1935
- annual report of Medical Officer of Health, London Borough of Barking, 1945
- Turner & Newall correspondence, 1943-1957
- academic articles and publications, 1904-1994
- press cuttings, 1920s-1983
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Includes:
- press coverage
- Brunel University MSc thesis by G.B. Farrant on potential release of asbestos affecting residents of Elgin Estate, October 1986
- report of independent commission, January 1996
- report by Professor Julian Peto, January 1997
- photographs, 1997
- papers on removal of asbestos from Winterton House and Gelston Point, Tower Hamlets
- publication by Walterton and Elgin Community Homes Ltd, 1998
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Concerns Southwark Council’s handling of removal of asbestos from houses on the estate.
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Includes:
- scientific papers
- press cuttings
- health and safety publications
- COSLA Asbestos Working Group on Asbestos report, June 2002
- correspondence and papers on death of Shirley Gibson, teacher at Plumstead Manor School
- Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) Asbestos Joint Working Party reports
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Includes:
- transcript of coroner’s inquest into death of Shirley Gibson, teacher at Plumstead Manor School, 1994
- certificates of air monitoring tests at Plumstead Manor School, 1993
- notes by Dalton of meetings of parents of children at Plumstead Manor School
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- transcript of BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Face the Facts’ broadcast in 1994
- specification for asbestos removal from Dog Kennel Hill School
- programme and papers from ‘Asbestos and public health’ conference in York, 1984 (includes paper by Dalton)
- report by The Asbestos Institute entitled ‘Ban asbestos zealotry – a gross deception but at what cost to society?’, 1994
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Includes statement by Dalton as expert witness.
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Correspondence and papers on the asbestos register, a national public database of asbestos in buildings, created by Ross Udall, Chief Executive, AsbestosRegister.com
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Correspondence and papers on white asbestos hazards. In response to articles by Christopher Booker in The Sunday Telegraph and John Bridle in The Safety and Health Practitioner claiming white asbestos is harmless. Includes:
- scientific papers on chrysotile asbestos, 1996-2001
- letter by Dalton to The Sunday Telegraph
- press cuttings
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Correspondence and papers on Court of Appeal ruling preventing compensation to workers exposed to asbestos dust by more than one employer. Includes letter from Nancy Tait, Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (OEDA).
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Minutes and notes of meetings of Asbestos Sub-committee of All Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health.
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Includes statements by Health and Safety Executive, article by Robin Howie and notes by Dalton.
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Papers on World Trade Organization’s upholding of ban of asbestos by France.
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Correspondence and papers on proposal to dispose asbestos at sea by Bermudan Government.
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Papers on removal of social security benefits from asbestos-related disease sufferers awarded compensation. Includes:
- report by Clydeside Action on Asbestos, 1994
- fourth report of House of Commons Social Security Committee on compensation recovery, 1995
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Correspondence and papers on asbestos and other environmental pollution in Camden. Topics include:
- asbestos in Camden Schools
- asbestos in factory in Kentish Town
- air pollution
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Correspondence and papers on remedial work for asbestos contamination at Carr Head Landfill, Pecket Well, Hebden Bridge. Includes:
- press coverage
- correspondence with local residents
- remedial work feasibility report
- correspondence between Dalton and Environment Agency
No access restrictions.
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Correspondence and papers on Lloyds of London and asbestos. Includes:
- minutes of evidence taken before Treasury and Civil Service Committee on financial services regulation relating to Lloyd’s of London, February 1995
- press cuttings
- letter from Dalton to The Independent, May 1995
No access restrictions.
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Correspondence and papers relating to collapse of Chester Street Insurance Holdings Ltd. Concerns scheme of arrangement to pay asbestos compensation claims. Correspondents include: Nancy Tait, Tommy Gorman, Owen Tudor.
No access restrictions.
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Correspondence and papers on polluting asbestos factory in Ireland. Also includes correspondence and papers on Raybestos-Manhattan (Ireland) factory at Ovens, County Cork, Ireland.
No access restrictions.
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Report by Tony Bingham, elastomers chemist, on Scandura [an asbestos product].
No access restrictions.
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Correspondence and papers on article by Professor Julian Peto of The Institute for Cancer Research in the Lancet in 1995 entitled ‘Continuing increase in mesothelioma mortality in Britain’.
No access restrictions.
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Papers on testimony in 1907 of Dr. Montague Murray, senior physician at Charing Cross Hospital, to Departmental Committee on Compensation for Industrial Diseases.
No access restrictions.
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Article defending reputation of Irving Selikoff, Director of Environmental Sciences Laboratory at Mount Sinai Hospital. Annotated [by Dalton].
No access restrictions.
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Correspondence and papers on asbestos contamination in Armley, Leeds. The contamination was caused by fall-out from J.W. Roberts Ltd asbestos processing factory in Armley.
No access restrictions.
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- Circular letter to national asbestos institutions, 1994
- Print--outs from Asbestos Institute website about chrysotile asbestos, 1998
- Copy of 'What is the logic being applied by anti-asbestos activists?' published by Asbestos Institute, 2003
No access restrictions.
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- leaflet and sticker advertising Asbestech Limited, 1980s
- leaflets advertising Kitsons Insulation Contractors Limited, 1983
- asbestos removal specialist services directory published by Asbestos Control and Abatement Division of Thermal Insulation Contractors Association, late 1990s
No access restrictions.
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Annotated by Dalton.
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Correspondence and papers on the banning of and use of asbestos in different countries.
In alphabetical order by country.
No access restrictions.
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Correspondence on ban of asbestos in Argentina.
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Correspondence and papers on asbestos in Australia. Includes:
- press cuttings, mostly about sufferers of asbestos-related disease
- ‘Asbestos Kills’ - guide to standards for asbestos removal published by Construction and General Division of Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU)
- copy of Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia booklet
No access restrictions.
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Correspondence and papers on asbestos in Brazil. Includes:
- correspondence with Fernanda Giannasi, Brazilian labour inspector and safety engineer and co-ordinator of Ban Asbestos Network
- academic papers by Fernanda Giannasi, Annie Thébaud-Mony, Barry Castleman
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Correspondence and papers on asbestos in Canada and export of asbestos from Canada. Correspondents include Barry Castleman, Mick Holder, Jim Brophy. Includes academic papers and press cuttings. Also report, c. 1998, by Catherine Escojido and Rodrigue Chartier, President of the Syndicat national de l'amiante d'Asbestos inc., entitled 'The controlled use of asbestos. For sustainable development and the protection of employment'.
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Correspondence and papers on ban of asbestos in Chile.
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Correspondence on research in China on exposure to chrysotile asbestos. Includes academic paper.
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Correspondence and papers on ban of asbestos in France. Includes:
- reports by the Asbestos Institute
- letters from Patrick Herman, co-ordinator of Ban Asbestos Network
- press cuttings
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Academic paper by V. Neumann, S. Günther, K.-M. Müller, M Fischer entitled ‘Malignant mesothelioma – German mesothelioma register 1987-1999’. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 2001, 74.
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Email from Laurie Kazan-Allen on ban of asbestos in Gulf countries.
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Papers on banning asbestos in India.
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Academic paper by Claudio Bianchi, Alessandro Brollo, Lucia Ramani, Tommaso Bianchi and Luigi Giarelli entitled ‘Asbestos exposure in malignant mesothelioma of the Pleura: a survey of 557 cases’. Industrial Health 2001, 39.
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Correspondence and papers on asbestos in Japan. Includes:
- academic papers
- press cuttings
- appeal for protective masks for workers and residents in Kobe City after earthquake, 1995
- text of speech delivered in Japan by Mick Holder of London Hazards Centre about campaign against asbestos in UK
- email communications from Rie Monika Ikeda to Dalton and other asbestos activists, 2002-2003
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Email from Barry Castleman on banning asbestos in Malaysia.
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Academic papers on asbestos in Russia.
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Correspondence and papers on asbestos in South Africa, including compensation claims against Cape plc by South African workers. Includes:
- photographs of demonstration
- press cuttings
- Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) leaflets and newsletters
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Email from Laurie Kazan-Allen on ban of asbestos in Spain.
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Academic paper by E. Handen Zeren, Derya Gumurdulu, Victor L. Roggli, Ilhan Tuncer, Suzan Zorludemir and Melek Erkisr entitled ‘Environmental malignant mesothelioma in Southern Anatolia: a study of fifty cases’. Environmental Health Perspectives 2000, vol. 108, no. 11.
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Papers on asbestos in USA. Includes:
- emails and article on asbestos in California and Montana, 2000
- email on levels of asbestos in New York City after terrorist attack on World Trade Center, 2001
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In chronological order.
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Papers relating to Joe Walker, asbestos lagger and safety representative of General and Municipal Workers Union Heat & Frost Branch. Walker was sacked for calling in a factory inspector.
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Correspondence and papers on trial relating to death in 1995 from mesothelioma of David Emerson, consultant surgeon in Sheffield. It was alleged that Emerson was exposed to asbestos as a student and houseman in the Middlesex Hospital in London in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Papers on compensation claim by John McPherson. McPherson suffered cancer of the larynx after exposure to asbestos.
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Correspondence on Alan Powell, who died from mesothelioma.
This file originated from Dalton's role as Researcher in Health and Safety at the Labour Research Department.
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Correspondence and papers on June Hancock, mesothelioma sufferer and campaigner against asbestos. As a child, June played near the J.W. Roberts & Co Ltd asbestos factory in Armley, Leeds. In a landmark legal case, she won compensation from Turner & Newall.
Includes leaflet and newsletter about June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund.
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Papers relating to claim for disablement benefit by George Wilshaw, who developed mesothelioma after exposure to asbestos.
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Correspondence on David Morgan, who died of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos at Prince of Wales Baths.
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Correspondence and papers on Stanley Trenholm, policeman and asbestosis sufferer. Trenholm died as the result of industrial disease due to exposure to asbestos during his employment. Includes notes of evidence at coroner’s inquest.
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Letter from Dalton to the secretary of the Enquiry into the Health and Safety Executive Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee about bricklayers sacked for complaining about asbestos hazards.
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Letter from Dalton to Department of Environmental Health, Westminster City Council, on case of asbestos exposure in Millbank Tower. Includes Dalton’s notes about the case.
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Claim for damages by widow of man who died from mesothelioma.
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Series of files on environmental and occupational health topics other than asbestos. Some files were created by Dalton in the course of a single role, eg as Researcher in Health and Safety at the Labour Research Department, whereas other files span more than one role.
One file is restricted in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation. Otherwise no access restrictions.
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Folder entitled ‘H&S History II’ on the history of health and safety at work. Includes:
- transcript of proceedings at Labour Research Department Speakers' School, 1942
- account of proceedings at open meeting of National Union of Railwaymen, 1943
- Amalgamated Engineering Union first report on health and welfare enquiry, 1944
- report of Labour Research Department conference on accidents and ill health at work, 1960
- press release by Health and Safety Executive announcing first health and safety prosecution on indictment for alleged infringement of health and safety legislation, 1975
- Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs special report on Vinyl Chloride Monomer, 1980
- 'Reagan in the workplace: unravelling the health and safety net' by Philip J. Simon, 1983
- academic papers on various health and safety at work issues, 1948-1991
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Includes:
- copies of extracts from Hansard relating to Health and Safety at Work Bill, 1974
- article, possibly by Dalton, for Hazards Bulletin, 1976
- correspondence between Dalton and clerk of Select Committee on Employment, Health and Safety at Work Act Subcommittee on investigation of 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act, 1981
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Internal memorandum from Dalton, Transport & General Workers Union, on a women’s health and safety at work reading list. Encloses ‘Occupational safety and health concerns of Canadian women’ by Karen Messing.
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Notes written by Dalton in his capacity as Researcher in Health and Safety at the Labour Research Department.
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Correspondence and papers on dispute at Grain Power Station, Isle of Grain, Kent, between Babcock and Wilcox management and staff regarding handling of man-made mineral fibre insulation.
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Notes on groundwater pollution from the Rainbow Factory in Cyprus.
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Correspondence and papers on explosion at Nypro UK Ltd chemical plant at Flixborough in 1974. Includes:
- report of Court of Inquiry into the Flixborough Disaster
- press releases
- text of lecture at Imperial College, London by K. Gugan on Flixborough explosion and inquiry
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- Reports and newsletters of organisations campaigning against Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation Ltd, a worldwide mining company with interests in metals, manufacturing, chemicals, engineering, construction and the exploitation of oil, gas and uranium.
- Report into operation of Rio Tinto plc’s Capper Pass smelting plant, Hull, written by David Russell, Senior Regional Solicitor to the Transport and General Workers Union.
- Copy of chapter on Rio Tinto Zinc's Bristol smelting plant from ' River of Tears: the Rise of Rio Tinto Zinc Mining Company' by Richard West, 1972.
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Correspondence and papers relating to fluoride levels at Anglesey Aluminium, Holyhead. Dalton carried out a study of conditions at Anglesey Aluminium for the Labour Research Department (an independent trade-union sponsored research organization). Includes:
- correspondence with employees
- health questionnaires completed by employees
- press coverage
Restricted in compliance with General Data Protection Regulation.
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- report of review by Health and Safety Executive into management of health and safety and the standards of risk control at premises run by Atomic Weapons Establishment plc
- press cuttings on safety at atomic weapons plants
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Correspondence and papers on noise induced hearing loss in commercial vehicle drivers. Includes transcript of World in Action programme ‘Long Distance Lorry Drivers’.
No access restrictions.
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Research carried out by Dalton for Labour Research Department on merits of hard versus soft toilet paper.
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Academic papers, press releases and fact sheets on silicosis.
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Papers on Substitution of Organic Solvents in Printing project (SUBSPRINT).
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Papers on health risks for quarry workers.
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- Annual report, minutes and papers of the Pesticides Forum, 1999-2000
- Pesticide Action Network UK: Review, 2001; Catalogue of lists of pesticides, 2001
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Correspondence and papers on landfill. Includes lists of landfill site operators in UK.
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Papers on prosecutions of waste disposal/recycling firms over deaths of employees. Inlcudes press coverage and notes by Dalton on Ian Ward who died while working for Norpol Recycling Ltd, Lancashire.
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Papers on trade unions and the environment. Comprises:
- Dalton’s notes from TUC Environment Symposium, 1996
- report and articles on trade unions and the environment, 1992-1998
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Reports on the relationship between industrial relations and the environment in Germany, Spain, Austria, Netherlands, Italy, Denmark and the UK. Also includes details of a textile eco labelling scheme.
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Correspondence and papers on man-made mineral fibres. Research carried out by Dalton for the Labour Research Department.
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Proposal by Dalton for pilot project to form a Centre for Environmental Protection.
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Includes:
- print-outs from ATDSR website
- public health assessment of Woodstock Municipal landfill, Illinois
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Published by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
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Correspondence and papers on Alan Meale, Environment Minister.
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Letter to and press cuttings about Michael Meacher, Environment Minister.
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Correspondence and papers on coroner’s inquest into death of Paul Elvin, window fitter’s mate, who was electrocuted whilst working at Euston Station. This file originated from Dalton's role as Researcher in Health and Safety at the Labour Research Department.
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Correspondence and papers on employment tribunal of Sarah Friday against South West Trains Ltd. Sarah Friday was the National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers health and safety representative at Waterloo railway station. Includes:
• decision of employment tribunal
• photographs
• press coverage
• correspondence and notes
• article by Dalton on Friday for Hazards magazine
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Correspondence and papers relating to conferences and meetings on asbestos (mainly) and other environmental and occupational health topics. Dalton attended many of these events.
In chronological order.
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Includes notes taken by Dalton at the conference.
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Includes agenda, and paper by Philip Barber on asbestos related disorders delivered at conference.
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Includes Dalton’s views on synthetic mineral fibres.
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Includes conference programme.
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Some access restrictions.
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Includes notes for speech by Dalton at the symposium.
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Conference programme and abstracts of talks; notes taken at conference by Dalton.
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Includes:
- notes taken by Dalton at conference
- ‘Clydebank: the unwanted legacy’ discussion paper by West Dunbartonshire Council
- Thompsons Solicitors newsletter
- article by Tommy Gorman in Scottish Review entitled ‘War on asbestos’
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Text of talk given by Dalton at a meeting in Glasgow.
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Organized by Asbestos International Association for environmental and occupational health protection.
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Includes:
- paper by secretary general of Ban Asbestos Network Japan
- conference presentation by president of Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia on asbestos in Australia
- recordings of talks (CD)
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The Workers’ Health Advice Team provided free, independent advice on all aspects of workplace health and safety to workers in the Bradford area. Dalton spoke at the launch.
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Includes programme and lecture abstracts, Dalton’s notes, scientific papers, publications.
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Includes National Society for Clean Air and Environmental Protection information leaflet on asbestos.
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- Press coverage
- Transcript of interview by Sunday Times with Michael Meacher, Environment Minister, about Earth Summit, August 2002
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Includes notes by Dalton.
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Articles, letters to the press and a book review, written by Dalton. Plus one review of a work by Dalton.
In chronological order.
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- ‘Are chemists human?’ Chemistry in Britain, Vol. 11, No.3, March 1975.
- 'Dangerous workplace or dangerous worker?' Nursing. The Add-on Journal of Clinical Nursing, Vol 2, No. 1, May 1982.
- ‘A chemist’s reactions’ Science for People, 60, April 1986.
- Outline of article on factory inspectorate, no date.
- 'Killing off a killer', April 1988.
- ‘Lessons from the United Kingdom: Fightback on Workplace Hazards, 1979-1992’. International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 22, No. 3, 1992.
- ‘Asbestos hazards: past, present and future’ Occupational Health review, September/October 1995.
- 'Homeworking can damage your health', c. 1997.
- Letter from Dalton to the Lancet on the hazards of white asbestos. The Lancet, Vol 352, 1998.
- Flyer for ‘Safety, health and environmental hazards at the workplace’ by A.J.P. Dalton, 1998.
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The article was written in response to an article in the Guardian by John Mullin. Cutting of article included.
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Includes letter to Dalton from John Hare, of Leigh, Day & Co, solicitors, re Dalton’s letter to the New Scientist.
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The article was written in response to an article in the Observer by John Collee. Cutting of article included.
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The letter was written in response to an article entitled ‘Monitoring sickness and absence in the workplace’. Cutting of article included.
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Includes copy of article.
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The article was written partly in reply to an article by Tim Carter. Includes copy of articles by Dalton and Carter.
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Includes correspondence between Dalton and the editor of the Health and Safety Bulletin about the review.
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The letter was written in response to ‘Asbestos Revisited’ by Alleman and Mossman in Scientific American, July 1997. Article included. Also included is letter from Joseph LaDou to Scientific American on the same article.
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The letter was written in response to articles in both newspapers on asbestos dumping in the West Midlands. Article included. Also included is related correspondence between Dalton and Nick Tofiluk, Superintendent, West Midlands Police.
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The letter was written in response to an article in The Observer on illegal use of asbestos waste. Cutting of article included.
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The letter was written in response to an article in the Evening Standard on dust in the London Undergound. Cutting of article included.
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The letter was written in response to an article in the Journal on asbestos in council homes in the Peckwater Estate, Kentish Town. Cutting of article included.
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The letter was written in response to an article in Ham & High. Cutting of article included.
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Article is entitled ‘Asbestos: banned but not dead’. Includes two photographs.
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Croner commissioned Dalton to write several articles for its Asbestos Risk Management newsletter and its Management of Contract Work newsletter. Included are copies of the following articles by Dalton:
- ‘Asbestos in the environment’
- ‘Focus on asbestos’
- ‘High risk activities’
- ‘Why is 3000 asbestos deaths a year not news?’
- ‘What progress on a global ban on asbestos?’
- ‘The duty to survey buildings for asbestos’
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Includes Dalton’s notes for the article.
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Includes emails to Dalton in response to his letter.
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Includes review by David Hodgkinson in Health and Safety at Work.
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Correspondence, reports and notes originating from Dalton's consultancy work, mostly concerning asbestos.
In chronological order.
One file is restricted in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation. Otherwise there are no access restrictions.
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Includes photographs of Dalton inspecting roof.
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Restricted in compliance with General Data Protection Regulation.
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Published works on asbestos and other environmental and occupational health issues collected by Dalton. Includes several works by Dalton.
No access restrictions.
All the works in this series are catalogued on SUPrimo the University of Strathclyde Library's integrated search service.
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Correspondence and papers relating to Dalton's involvement in the production of television and radio programmes on asbestos, together with a series of video recordings and transcripts of documentaries and other programmes collected by Dalton on asbestos and other environmental and occupational health and safety topics.
In chronological order.
Access restrictions on all the videos in this series:
No access to VHS cassette for preservation reasons.
Strathclyde staff and students only - we can arrange to supply them with a digitised copy, which they can use for personal research and play in class.
External researchers - we can't supply them with a digitised copy, therefore no access to external researchers.
Some access restrictions.
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Annotated [by Dalton].
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Copyright: Granada Television Ltd.
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Booklet of practical advice for those concerned about exposure to asbestos and for those wanting to claim compensation. It was written following Yorkshire Television’s programme on asbestos ‘Alice: A Fight for Life’.
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- transcript of Yorkshire Television documentary ‘Alice: A Fight for Life’ about asbestos, 1982
- statement by John Willis, producer and director of the documentary, 1984
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The oil industry replies to Danish evidence on brain damage caused by exposure to solvents.
English subtitles.
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Copyright: ITV plc
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Documentary about asbestos disaster in Armley, Leeds.
Some access restrictions.
Copyright: ITV plc
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Copyright: BBC
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Four episodes of 'Dangerous Lives' documentary series made by Yorkshire Television for Channel 4. Broadcast in 1989.
- episode about coal miners and health and safety
- 'The silent sufferers' about noise in the workplace
- 'Don't tell the workers' about cancer risks in the workplace
- episode about stress in the workplace
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Documentary following the lives of tenants living on the Kingswood Estate in Hackney, East London. This episode is about a tenant who alerts other tenants on the estate to the dangers of living with asbestos in the flats.
Some access restrictions.
Copyright: ITV
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Documentary about health and safety of coal miners.
Some access restrictions.
Copyright: BBC
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Documentary on asbestos. Presented by John Waite, transmitted January 1994.
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- Channel 4 Undercover Britain episode 'Preying on hope' about miracle cures for the terminally ill
- BBC Panorama episode 'Battling for air' about asthma and pollution
Some access restrictions.
Copyright: Channel 4, BBC
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Documentary about coroners' inquests.
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Copyright: BBC
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Copyright: Mediehuset Svendborg
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Copyright: Open University
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Programme investigating allegations that homeless families were moved into asbestos-ridden Westminster Council flats as part of an attempt to influence the 1990 local elections.
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Copyright: BBC
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Documentary investigating wages and conditions of work.
Some access restrictions.
Copyright: BBC
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Meridian and BBC news reports about Gary Coomber, sheep farmer, a victim of exposure to organophosphates in sheep dip. Features interview with Dalton.
Some access restrictions.
Copyirght: ITV Meridian, BBC
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Documentary about factories which moved from Denmark to Poland, England and China.
Copyright: Mediehuset Svendborg
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Documentary about four individuals who spoke out against malpractice and mismanagement in their workplaces.
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Copyright: Channel 4
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Copyright: Clydeside Action on Asbestos
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Copyright: Public Broadcasting Service
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Copyright: Health and Safety Executive
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Documentary looking at work of Environment Agency's inspectors tackling pollution and illegal waste.
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Copyright: BBC
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Copyright: Channel 4
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Produced on behalf of the Merseyside Port Shop Stewards Committee.
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Copyright: Merseyside Port Shop Stewards Committee.
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Copyright: Old Street Films
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Documentary about genetically modified food.
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Copyright: Channel 4
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Documentary about Simon Jones who was killed on his first day as a casual worker at the Shoreham dock of Euromin.
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Copyright: Conscious Cinema.
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Documentary about the men who lived and worked routinely with asbestos in Victoria's La Trobe Valley power industry, Australia
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Copyright: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Copyright: BBC
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Documentary about compensation for sufferers of asbestos-related disease.
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Copyright: BBC
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Documentary about Salford's environmental health team dealing with asbestos released into a local neighbourhood by a garage fire.
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Copyright: BBC
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Press cuttings collected by Dalton on asbestos and other environmental and occupational health issues.
Grouped in two sequences:
1. Press cuttings on asbestos
2. Press cuttings on environmental and occupational health topics other than asbestos
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Press cuttings on asbestos collected by Dalton.
In chronological order.
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Press cuttings collected by Dalton on environmental and occupational health issues other than asbestos.
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Academic papers, theses and reports on asbestos and other environmental and occupational health issues, collected by Dalton.
Grouped in two sequences:
1. Academic papers on asbestos
2. Academic papers on environmental and occupational health topics other than asbestos
Within each sequence, the papers are in chronological order.
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Academic papers, letters to journal editors, theses and reports on asbestos collected by Dalton. Many of the works are annotated by Dalton.
In chronological order.
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Academic papers and reports collected by Dalton on a variety of environmental and occupational health topics other than asbestos. Topics include factory inspectors, environmental health risk assessment and risk management, environmental regulation, health and safety regulation, dust control, ventilation, local exhaust systems, compressed air spraying, respiratory protection, asthma, cardiovascular disease, industrial lead poisoning, manual handling, musculoskeletal disorders, repetitive strain injuries, work-related stress, shiftwork and long working hours, sickness absence, work-related deaths, noise, cleaning agents, dry-cleaning solvents, hazardous waste treatment, municipal waste management, recycling, man-made mineral fibres, organophosphates, ethics in occupational medicine, MRSA, air pollution, and the health of oil workers, miners, paper-recycling workers and workers in sewage treatment works.
Many of the works are annotated by Dalton.
In chronological order.
No access restrictions.