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Press coverage, January to December 2005. In reverse chronological order. Some of the original cuttings mounted.

Predominantly on asbestos (including re IIAC report reviewing the prescription of asbestos-related diseases, Cm 6553), but also covers other themes, notably the health threats posed by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Includes press cuttings on Nancy Tait receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), and her welcoming Cm 6553. Also obituaries of Sir Richard Doll.

The IIAC report (Cm 6553), which was presented to Parliament in February 2005 and published in July 2005, admitted that asbestos can lead to lung cancer without asbestosis being present. It was taken to signal UK Government changes to the compensation scheme for asbestos-related lung cancer.

Correspondence with GMBATU Health & Safety officers (in particular David Gee), and papers. Includes:

• questionnaire for survey of health hazards and chemical substances in the food industry 1986
• typescript summarising GMBATU's take on R Doll & J Peto (1985) ‘Asbestos: effects on health of exposure to asbestos - the risk of asbestos in buildings’ (Doll/Peto Report)
• typescript summarising GMBATU's view of the consultative document (1985) ‘Control of asbestos at work: draft regulations and draft approved code of practice’
• typescript article ‘How self-regulation fails to protect workers – the asbestos story’ (1984)
• GMBATU (1984) ‘Progress report on fibrous dust campaign 1980-1984’
• drafts of HSE leaflet on asbestos brake linings, 1984
• draft GMBATU guide (1984) ‘The extent and characteristics of asbestos diseases – a guide for doctors, solicitors, union officials & exposed workers’ (1984)
• draft GMBATU 'TIE pamphlet', 1984; TIE being thermal insulation engineers, also known as laggers
• typescript GMBATU (1984) 'Draft TUC leaflet on asbestos'
• press coverage
• a little case correspondence

Correspondence and papers (including reports and press cuttings).

Chiefly

• 'Visitors from America and information they were interested in': correspondence, chiefly with Terry Richardson of Blatt & Fales, South Carolina, and papers relating mainly to Dr R Doll, among them copy of a letter from Doll and a photocopy of the HSC-commissioned report by Doll with J Peto, ‘Asbestos: effects on health of exposure to asbestos’ (1985)
• 'Information from American visitors': photocopies of court papers from actions against Turner & Newall Ltd, left by Terry Richardson

Correspondence and papers re various editions of the information pack 'Problems arising from the use of asbestos in buildings: papers assembled by SPAID'.

Includes copies of various SPAID notes from the pack, as well as SPAID note 22A ('Asbestos in buildings: effects on health and exposure'), reproducing the Health & Safety Commission publication on the topic by Richard Doll and Julian Peto, 1985. Further, former note 49 ('Industry information: the mineral asbestos'), from 'Asbestos - its special attributes and uses' of the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC), 1975.

Notes on a selection of literature on lung cancer, c.1992. Also includes copies of case correspondence and copy of R Doll and J Peto (1985) 'Asbestos: effects on health of exposure to asbestos', with Nancy Tait's instruction to SPAID colleague Martin [Stower]: 'Please list the parts you consider most important or most easily challenged'.

Correspondence with and papers and correspondence relating to Sir Richard Doll and his research.
Richard Doll was a doctor and pioneering researcher with a particular focus on lung cancer. Doll published the first research showing the link between smoking and lung cancer. Nancy Tait and SPAID did not always agree with Doll's research findings and sometimes disputed his calculations in relation to the environmental risk from asbestos.

Papers include:
-copies of Richard Doll articles and research
-copies of some articles by Richard Doll and Julian Peto
-reports and papers about SPAID's comments on Doll's research
-correspondence and copies of correspondence with Richard Doll about his research
-handwritten notes commenting on Doll's research
-statistics on asbestos-related deaths
-copies of press clippings mentioning Doll's research
-correspondence about interactions with Richard Doll
-a transcript of 'smoke gets in your eyes' 'Brass Tacks' BBC programme, 17 November 1987
-correspondence about US and Canadian research on asbestos
-correspondence with newspapers about misleading articles
-correspondence contradicting Doll's research into asbestos in break linings
-correspondence discussing the shortcomings of Doll and Peto's report: 'Asbestos- Effects on Health of Exposure to Asbestos- the Risk from Asbestos in Buildings', 1985.