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Networking

Networking was a core activity for Nancy Tait's organisation, and one she pursued through the so-called 'SPAID Fellowship' (imagined as a supporters' club), through an extensive series of conferences and meetings, and through information exchange and the development of professional contacts and alliances with a range of organisations and individuals, notably unions, victims support groups, and legal experts. Primarily these were based in the UK. But Tait also maintained a North American correspondence, in particular with personal injury lawyers and with asbestos critics, and she avidly followed news on European health & safety regulation.

Three series:

  • materials relating specifically to Nancy Tait and her charity
  • corporate records including SPAID trustee correspondence, OEDA management committee correspondence and minutes of meetings
  • assessments of the organisation, business plans and measures of improvement

The section closes with a file relating predominantly to SPAID / OEDA's status as a charity.

SPAID Trust Deed is at "Early correspondence with SPAID trustees" (OEDA/A/2/1/1). OEDA Memorandum & Articles of Association is at "Correspondence with L B Horam, 1988-1995" (OEDA/A/2/3), January 1994.

Providing information

Six series, each of them representing a type of information service provided by SPAID / OEDA. As follows:

  • fielding occupational and environmental health enquiries
  • publications by the organisation
  • display boards and posters generated for use at meetings, conferences and around the office
  • responses to requests for information from solicitors
  • responses to requests for information from the media

The section concludes with a small series relating to compensation claims against the Johns-Manville Corporation / the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust.

Case support
  • registers and other finding aids for the extensive OEDA case file series (OEDA CF); see link below
  • information resources on employers and insurers and other materials for supporting compensation claims
  • some case correspondence, medical appeals correspondence, correspondence with the medical appeal administration, and with the social security commissioner
  • standard forms authorising Nancy Tait to access her clients' medical records