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Nancy Tait's office diary for the year 1999.

Black cover, 21.8 x 15 cm.

Copy of 'Occupational safety & health' August 1988, featuring photos from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) International Safety and Health Exhibition and Congress, Birmingham, 24-26 May 1990.

Includes a photograph of Nancy Tait receiving a cheque from Kimberley-Clark, manufacturers of the 'Kleenguard' range of coveralls.

Correspondence and papers re Nancy Tait's presentation at the 8th Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Annual International Safety and Health Exhibition and Congress, Birmingham, 22-24 May 1990.

Includes drafts of the paper, conference guide.

The latter contains notes on speakers, with photographs. Tait was the only female speaker, as the conference organisers found important to point out.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme. Includes extensive application for refunding, containing detailed financial information, an anonymised listing of new OEDA cases in the London region, self assessment, samples of OEDA policies and forms, etc.

Correspondence and papers re Shaw’s parachute jump 2006, to raise funds for OEDA.

Personal injury lawyer Andrew Shaw of Higgs & Son Solicitors served on the OEDA Management Committee 2005-2007.

Deposition of Dr Allen Robert Gibbs (18 February 1999), in Haas v. Raybestos-Manhattan, no further details.

Includes:

• Nancy Tait's notes on a condensed transcript of the deposition
• annotated copy of the condensed deposition
• clean copy plus index

Possibly recording of a seminar organised by the HSC & the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Belfast, 12 June 1995, whose principal objective was to look at problems arising from work-related respiratory disorders, including asthma and asbestos-related diseases.

Asbestos victims in Northern Ireland were greatly disadvantaged by the lack of a local support network for sufferers; reportedly the possibility of establishing a victims-led group was discussed.

Case register arranged alphabetically by surname with columns for name/address/disease. In address field, date of SPAID-contact. No case numbers.

Further includes a ‘Special interest’ section containing:

• list of British ships (25 October 1994), alphabetized by last name
• (partial) list (case-numbered) of ?mesothelioma? cases, with information on settlement, press coverage; some aggregated by ‘short exposures’, ‘special interest’
• press items, list of MRSA sufferers, list lung cancer cases, bronchiectasis, cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis etc.

Further includes

• list of overseas cases 1988-2007, in chronological order
• medical reports by Dr R M Rudd, 2000

Mrs J Bryant was a long-serving member of staff.

2 personal letters to Nancy Tait:
-letter from 'Kitty', discussing family matters, 16/12/97
-letter from 'Anne and Ted', discussing family matters, Christmas 1999

Correspondence. Somewhat sketchy.

Correspondence and papers re enquiries resulting from 'Asbestos - killer they all want us to forget', Sunday Mirror, 6 October 1996. Includes:

• copy of the article
• correspondence with inquirers, in alphabetical order
• also correspondence and papers re a projected article (by Tim Kelsey) for The Sunday Times, July 1996

Correspondence with John Pickering & Partners LLP, organised by topic:

• shipping
• compensation (including re compensation bill 2005)
• Cape plc (re group action against the company on behalf of South African miners)
• fibre counts
• the Fairchild judgement
• Association of British Insurers (ABI); includes copy of ABI's ‘Guidelines for apportioning and handling employers liability mesothelioma claims’ (2003)
• restructuring of Zurich Insurance Company
• T&N, including correspondence with the administrators of T&N

Overseas correspondence, primarily re asbestos-related diseases. In reverse chronological order.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) chiefly between Maureen Ward and Jack Raeburn of the DTLR/DETR, in the earlier years with Mr D Meredith and Mr T Brownlee at the Department of Employment. Covers orders for forms PWC1, PWC2, etc., discussions on the ‘Pneumoconiosis etc (Workers’ Compensation) Act 1979’, the ‘Pneumoconiosis etc (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 1991’ and ‘… 1996’, ‘Draft code of practice on tracing employers’ liability insurers: consultative document’ (1999), information on how to calculate mesothelioma payments, etc.

Also a little correspondence and (few) papers re compensation claims from Department of Employment.

DTLR/ DETR = Department for Transport, Local Government & the Regions/Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions.

Correspondence and papers (including drafts) re SPAID publication on 'Asbestos and dockers', c.1985-1988, including earlier materials c.1966-1982.

• version of 'Asbestos and dockers', dated 1988
• photocopy of Martin Stower (April 1985) 'Dockworkers and asbestos-related diseases' ('Health and safety at work', pp. 36, 38) and typescript draft
• typescript of SPAID note 17b 'Asbestos kills husband and wife'
• documentation from the Turner & Newall Archive relating to asbestos widow Molly Fisher, whose husband Samuel Fisher had been an asbestos spinner; also press coverage re safety limits