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Letters to Dalton from Dieter Helm, New College, Oxford, 1999, enclosing copies of his papers on sustainable development (1998) and British environmental regulation (1992).

The communications are on environmental and occupational health issues (mainly asbestos-related).

Dalton was a community representative on the board of the Environment Agency from 1999 to 2001 when he was fired. The bulk of this series originates from that role.

Includes correspondence between Dalton and Sir John Harman, chairman of the Environment Agency.

Academic papers and reports collected by Dalton on a variety of environmental and occupational health topics other than asbestos. Topics include factory inspectors, environmental health risk assessment and risk management, environmental regulation, health and safety regulation, dust control, ventilation, local exhaust systems, compressed air spraying, respiratory protection, asthma, cardiovascular disease, industrial lead poisoning, manual handling, musculoskeletal disorders, repetitive strain injuries, work-related stress, shiftwork and long working hours, sickness absence, work-related deaths, noise, cleaning agents, dry-cleaning solvents, hazardous waste treatment, municipal waste management, recycling, man-made mineral fibres, organophosphates, ethics in occupational medicine, MRSA, air pollution, and the health of oil workers, miners, paper-recycling workers and workers in sewage treatment works.

Many of the works are annotated by Dalton.

Series of files on environmental and occupational health topics other than asbestos. Some files were created by Dalton in the course of a single role, eg as Researcher in Health and Safety at the Labour Research Department, whereas other files span more than one role.

Letter to Dalton from Eva Delgado, Alianza Frente al Asbesto, on asbestos in Peru. Encloses Alianza Frente Al Asbesto bulletins, 1994, and photograph of interior of asbestos fibre factory in Peru.

Annotated by Dalton.

Correspondence between Dalton and Professor F.D.K. Liddell on research by Liddell on asbestos.

Correspondence between Dalton and fellow activists, occupational health experts, historians, scientists, doctors, solicitors and others.

Correspondence and papers on explosion at Nypro UK Ltd chemical plant at Flixborough in 1974. Includes:

• report of Court of Inquiry into the Flixborough Disaster
• press releases
• text of lecture at Imperial College, London by K. Gugan on Flixborough explosion and inquiry