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Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and papers re enquiries from individuals affected by asbestos ('Z-files' No 1-555). In reverse chronological order. Includes

• instructions on new OEDA office procedures for processing 'First reports' to 'Z-cases'
• printout of listing Z4 to Z292, dated March 1999
• colour photograph of asbestos victim at Z264

• manuscript draft 'The interest of WSL in asbestos', dating this back to a survey of the use of asbestos including crocidolite in Mintech (Ministry of Technology) establishments, January 1967
• typescript 'Work of WSL on asbestos' n.d.
• typescript notes on a visit to MRC Air Pollution Unit, Medical College St Barts, 17 July 1967
• photocopy of report (by M J Sanders) of British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) conference, Newcastle, 12 September 1967
• BOHS Committee on Hygienic Standards draft 'A hygienic standard for chrysotile asbestos dust' (September 1967, for discussion at BOHS EC meeting 28 September 1967)
• M J Sanders' minutes of a discussion of the Mintech Sub-Committee of the Asbestos Working Party, London School of Hygiene, 25 October 1967. Further includes Sanders' personal aide memoir of a discussion at Tilbury House, Treasury Medical Service (TMS), 25 October 1967. The members of the Sub-Committee were A Mendoza, Gerard Lorriman of the TMS, Dr Chambers, J Parker (AP Division WSL) and Sanders
• typescript paper (by M J Sanders) 'Sampling and measurement of asbestos in air', outlining the Mintech Safety Officers' interest in the problem and the WSL's activities regarding asbestos sampling
• manuscript minutes (by M J Sanders) of a discussion at the Chemistry Department, Reading University, 8 November 1967. Participants included P F Holt (head of the Chemistry Department, University of Reading), Gerard Lorriman, J Parker and Sanders
• manuscript note 'Draft asbestos regulations', 28 November 1967
• typescript summary (by J Parker), 'Sampling techniques for asbestos dust', 8 December 1967

Three volumes, for years 1965, 1967, 1968, used during years 1965, 1968, 1969.

Manuscript notes of undergraduate lectures attended at the University of Strathclyde.

Includes:

• account by Jackson of his exposure to asbestos and campaign work
• papers on industrial disease compensation claims supported by Jackson

Telephone memoranda, copies of news items, follow-up on news items of interest, OEDA news releases, management of contact information/media contacts.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda), mainly with lawyers and occasionally with claimants, 1987-2004. Includes SPAID standard reply to potential claimants, c.1990. Papers includes press coverage.

Among correspondents are Marc P Weingarten of Greitzer & Locks, Philadelphia; Jane B Cantor of Garruto Cantor Trial Lawyers, East Brunswick NJ; also Brigitte Chandler of Townsends, Swindon; Reid Minty & Co, Solicitors, London; and Terry E Richardson of Blatt & Fales Law Offices, Barnwell, South Carolina.

Photocopies of correspondence and papers (including press cuttings), in reverse chronological order. Includes

• Nancy Tait's call, in March 1977, for an Asbestos Protection Trust to be set up with the aim of providing "information and sympathetic advice [to those] who develop asbestos diseases and their families", and "information and encouragement [to] individuals and organisations working to ensure the safety of those using asbestos and its substitutes"
• correspondence with future trustees of SPAID, among other things seeking advice on the Health & Safety Commission's (HSC) reluctance to accept Tait's evidence
• correspondence with experts (Prof. P C Elmes of the MRC Pneumoconiosis Unit at Penarth, Prof. I Selikoff, Prof. P E Enterline (biostatistician at the University of Pittsburgh), Barry Castleman, Prof. Patrick Lawther of the MRC Air Pollution Unit); with the asbestos industry (Turner & Newall, the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC), Cape Industries); with trade union representatives including the Irish Transport & General Workers Union, and re Judge Rene Beaudry's 393-page preliminary report on the Thetford asbestos mines, Canada; according to Beaudry the provincial asbestos limit to be enforced in 1978 was inadequate
• correspondence relating to a television appearance during which Tait showed a cooking mat with an asbestos warning label, transmitted late January / early February 1977, and correspondence arising from a radio broadcast featuring Tait on asbestos (BBC 'World this weekend', 30 January 1977)
• a little correspondence with families of individuals suffering from asbestos-related disease
• copy of Tait's 'Asbestos press release', spring 1977

Committee papers (agendas and minutes of meetings, circulated material) and correspondence.

Correspondents include MPs Nigel Spearing and Max Madden, as well as sundry legal experts among them Julian Fulbrook, Rodney Nelson-Jones, and John Pickering.

Contains case correspondence.

A noteworthy achievement of the early work of the Legal Working Party was the Industrial Diseases (Notification) Bill, read twice in January 1981, which led to the introduction of a new form of death certificate, asking medical practitioners to consider whether or not the death might have been due to or contributed to by the employment followed at some time by the deceased. The form also listed categories of death with potentially industrial origin, including asbestos as a cause of lung cancer.

Correspondence and papers re the work of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Ban Asbestos Working Group, 1996-1998, of which Nancy Tait was an active member.

Includes:

• minutes of the TUC Ban Asbestos Working Group 1998
• draft of Nancy Tait's information document ‘Asbestos – past and present’ c.1997
• press coverage, news releases of OEDA, Labour, TUC etc.
• copy of OEDA Newsletter 3/4 (autumn 1997) with cover letter to MPs
• letter to Tony Blair PM urging him to ban all imports of asbestos

Among the Ban Asbestos Working Group members were also Laurie Kazan Allen, Laura Willard, Margaret Sharkey of UCATT, and the TUC's Selina Fairclough, Owen Tudor and Alan Grant.

One email and copy of newsletter of the June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund.

Papers and correspondence with and re asbestos victims support in Wales.

Correspondence and papers re policy and regulations covering war pensions, compensation from the Ministry of Defence for asbestos-related diseases, and exemption from inheritance tax in case of death from conditions attributable to war service.

Includes listing of 'Forces cases' with asbestos-related diseases, including diagnosis.

Further includes copies of 'Veterans world: newsletter for all those who serve the ex-Service community', 2006, and press coverage 1982-2006.