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Monochrome poster visualising the presence of asbestos in the home environment. Includes drawings of household appliances that may contain asbestos and schematic drawing of house and garage, identifying where asbestos may be present.

Papers relating to health and safety in construction.

• correspondence with and re T&N 1976-1986
• press coverage on T&N, 1975-1986, including news on the company's search for alternatives to its asbestos products 1977, and on the reintroduction of white asbestos by Eternit TAC Ltd, 1986
• material relating specifically to the Shabani mine (since 1983: Zvishavane), Zimbabwe, including copy of an offer of employment dated 1981
• photocopies of various undated typescripts on T&N and public health risk, T&N research on asbestos substitutes, assessment of health & safety equipment, copy of T&N shop steward Norman Pollard’s report ‘Unsafe at any level: asbestos as a hazard to health’
• photocopy of T&N ‘Q&A: the Asbestos Regulations, 1969’ (1969)

Originals of Turner & Newall 'Report and accounts' 1976-1981 and some other company performance reports.

Set of SPAID notes (master & copies), originally housed in plastic document sleeves (each labelled), summarising information for claimants and solicitors. Includes

• inventory / table of contents
• some correspondence 1986-1987
• sheets (for solicitors) on the Pneumoconiosis etc (Workers' Compensation) Act 1979, the "Old Cases" scheme, war pensions, provisional damages, late claims
• sheets (for claimants) on the Department of Employment, the Pneumoconiosis etc (Workers' Compensation) Act 1979, 'What should you expect from a solicitor?', deductions from damages, late claims, 'Compensation: how much can you expect to recover?'
• sheets (for advisors only) on 'Change of diagnosis', deductions from damages, late claims
• sheets on the modern industrial injuries scheme and on the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977

Also various drafts for a SPAID case support manual, summarising the meaning of relevant terms, regulations, processes re industrial injury compensation and benefit claims. Appears to have subsequently evolved into numbered SPAID notes on each topic; see link below.

SPAID information packs D (for compensation from former employers and weekly benefits from DSS/DHSS) and E (industrial death benefit).

Virtually complete set of SPAID notes 1-56.

Various versions of SPAID/OEDA note 25 ('Asbestos cement - the current situation'), c.1981-c.1997. Also copies of SPAID note 23 ('News release: mesothelioma and asbestos cement').

Correspondence and papers (including drafts) re SPAID notes on statistics, including:

• correspondence with the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) re death records mentioning mesothelioma, 1986-1987
• versions of SPAID note 43 (‘Statistics – number of deaths and death rates per million of mesothelioma, by age, 1968 to 1985 England and Wales. Figures provided by OPCS')
• materials relating to SPAID note 44a (‘Statistics – population: cause of death and estimate industrial diseases notification’), 23 September 1987
• materials relating to SPAID note 44b (‘New form for medical certificate of cause of death, Industrial Disease Notification (Act) 1981’), including correspondence with OPCS and samples of newly designed forms for medical certificates of the cause of death, c.1985

Yellow document wallets, each originally with nearly 100 copies of the asbestos information sheet it contained. As follows:

• ' (a) DSS boards and problems | (for mature students – thesis and projects) | Dec 87': containing document ‘SPAID secretary's report' 1 December 87
• '(b) For mature students only | Help for asbestos victims | Meeting Sponsored by Frank Field MP and John Hunt MP Nov ‘87': containing document ‘Help for asbestos victims … Nov 1987’
• '(c) Check with NT before sending| "Introduction to asbestos related disease" by Dr Hanson)': containing document as described, by Dr Audrey Hanson MD FRCP
• '(d) Check with NT before sending | "Current situation regarding compensation for asbestos induced diseases" by Dr Rudd) | 1-12-87': containing document as described, by Dr Robin Rudd, consultant physician at the London Chest Hospital
• '(e) The asbestos disease - prevention and care | by Nancy Tait. | Oct 87': as described

Correspondence re enquiries resulting from a Meridian Television ‘Serve you right’ programme on asbestos.

Response to a request for information from Mr B Zapata, 1987.

Photocopy of Johns Manville Corporation's response to the US Department of Labour, April 1976, re the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) proposed rulemaking on occupational exposure to asbestos.

Includes extensive appendices (A-F).

Press cuttings.

Copies of statutory instruments relating to coroners.