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The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) is an independent statutory body which advises the Government on the industrial injuries scheme.

Discussions of consultation papers on key issues of personal injury law.

OEDA created dedicated press coverage files, the largest of them a multi-volume series of press cuttings 1976-2007. This is followed by smaller aggregations.

More press coverage can be found throughout the OEDA papers. In the early years the charity monitored the anglophone press (chiefly British national dailies, but also trades magazines and local papers) for information with potential relevance for its mission, and continued to gather news reports until 2006. Some press cuttings came to OEDA from asbestos activists, personal injury lawyers, and well-wishers. Through its international network, OEDA also received media reports from North America, sporadically also from Australia and South Africa.

Some of these holdings are catalogued in the OEDA collection of printed material (see link below), among them incomplete sets of the following titles:

• ‘Engineering Safety’ July 1970-March 1978
• ‘Caution magazine’ vol 7.5 (1981) – vol 12.1 (1986)
• 'Safety practitioner' May + June 1985 and ‘Safety & health practitioner’ May 1991-June 1994 (both Institution of Occupational Safety and Health)

In reverse chronological order.

Relates to Nancy Tait's efforts to bring about and implement a prohibition on the importation, manufacture, use and sale of asbestos-containing products in the UK.

Elsewhere in the archive there is documentation of Nancy Tait's involvement in the foundation of 'Ban Asbestos' in Strasbourg on 14 June 1991, at the initiative of the Green Group of Members of the European Parliament. See http://atom.lib.strath.ac.uk/oeda-maureen-wards-reference-files-on-key-actions

Nancy Tait and her organisation actively engaged with the Disability Alliance in the early 1980s. In 1989 they let membership lapse but continued to purchase the 'Disability Alliance handbook' each year until 2006.

Disability Alliance is a London-based charity currently named Disability Rights UK.

Documentation on asbestos on the London Underground.

Documentation on asbestos in schools and buildings.