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Printouts of news items distributed through the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) Newswatch e-list.

Originally filed "Jonathan Bennett" after the Public Affairs Director of NYCOSH.

Copy of brochure written by Carolynne Radcliffe, training consultant & welfare benefits advisor.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) with Robert Pointer, Tyne & Wear Asbestos Support Group / Barrow Asbestos-related Disease Support Group, re awareness-raising concerning the dangers of asbestos. Starts with request Pointer for information to be used at TUC annual conference, later foundation asbestos victims support group.

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 and papers re application for a £43,500 grant from the Balance Charitable Foundation.

Colour photographs of Nancy Tait celebrating with her fellow asbestos critics at St Barnabas, London, ?2005.

Correspondence and papers re production of leaflet ‘Asbestos in your home’, 2005 and 2006. Includes background material, drafts, correspondences with sponsors.

• copy of programme
• list of delegates
• Nancy Tait's notes on the event

Emails and very occasional letters re news items on asbestos.

Rory O’Neill is the editor of Hazards magazine and a professor of Occupational Health Policy Research at the University of Stirling.

Correspondence and papers re application to Comic Relief, for £5,000 for core funding support.

Declined.

Correspondence and papers (chiefly papers) relating to the Cape Asbestos Fund. Includes successive proposals 'for a scheme of arrangement in respect of asbestos liabilities’.

Outgoing correspondence, May to December 2005, in reverse chronological order.

Correspondence and papers re application for a grant from the Rayne Foundation, to improve access to OEDA's services, notably for the distribution of an updated issue of the OEDA pamphlet 'Asbestos facts', for deployment of a feedback system to evaluate the benefits of OEDA's services on all cases, and for producing and distributing topical information sheets and to maintain the organisation's website.

The application was for £ 17,400 over two years.

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

Papers and correspondence with and re HSE consultative document for revised Asbestos Regulations and an Approved Code of Practice (CD 205), in particular re the proposal to remove asbestos-containing textured decorative coatings from the licensing regime. Includes

• extensively annotated copy of Kevin Walkin and Geoff Lloyd (2006) 'A comparison of risks from different materials containing asbestos'
• copy of response to CD 205 by Adrian K Watson
• copy of summary of responses to CD 205 received
• copy of Asbestos Removal Contractors Association (ARCA) document 'Questions raised and HSE's response following consultation on the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006'
• summary of responses to CD 205 to be discussed at a stakeholder meeting on 4 April 2006
• Nancy Tait's comments and response to CD 205
• minutes of meeting of the All Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health Asbestos Sub-Committee, 22 November 2005
• various versions of minutes of stakeholder meeting to discuss HSE proposals to implement the amendments to the Asbestos Worker Protection Directive (AWPD), 11 August 2005
• Nancy Tait's comments on the stakeholder meeting of 11 August 2005