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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

Photocopy of Code of federal regulations (revised 1 July 1997), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763 - Asbestos (Subpart E - Asbestos-containing materials in schools).

Photocopy of Federal Register (13 May 1992), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763.

Public service message from the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Copy of the publication, by the Asbestos Institute / Institut de l'amiante [1986].

Copy of a booklet from the Canadian Asbestos Information Centre's 'Health facts' series.

Copy of a report by the Subcommittee on Environmental Health of the Environmental Health Directorate, Canada, 15 February 1976.

Intercalated cross reference to 'Beaudry inquiry', presumably Judge Rene Beaudry's inquiry into the Thetford asbestos mines, Canada.

Card index of SPAID/OEDA cases, in alphabetical order (by surname of individual afflicted and family member). In some cases cross-referenced to case number or 'Q' file (OEDA/C/1/2); see link below.

Table of cases 946-1332 (18 December 1990-14 May 1992), largely in chronological order.

Capturing name, disease, date contacted SPAID, solicitor (name and date contacted), SMB (Special Medical Board) decision awarded/refused, notice to appeal given (ACK), appeal papers received, SPAID's submission sent, hearing date, comments. Of these, columns chiefly used are the first 3-4 and the last.

Printout of the OEDA case database in the form of a table, 28 July 2003. 171 pp, listing cases 2-3650 (with gaps) and cases 4001-10,000 (with extensive gaps), followed by a few rows with anomalous case numbers. This and other indicators suggest that there may have been a technical problem with the database.

The printout appears to have been generated to support OEDA's case for continued funding from Association of London Government (ALG; formerly the London Boroughs Grant Unit, LBGU), the organisation's main source of funding since 1983.

Includes:

• note from Nancy Tait proposing to use this printout, rather than the electronic database, to record important updates henceforth
• overview of codes and what each column in the database is intended for

Poster reporting on six of the 42 new cases handled by SPAID since October 1983:

• 48 year old maintenance fitter diagnosed with mesothelioma, after only three years occasional contact with asbestos in naval dockyards
• 69 year old mesothelioma patient who worked for Turner & Newall, Manchester, for one year, 30 years ago
• 48 year old mesothelioma patient who came in contact with asbestos during an apprenticeship with ICI, likewise 30 years ago
• 42 year old former merchant seaman and cargo inspector at Plymouth docks, on severe pain medication for his mesothelioma
• 45 year old electrical engineer diagnosed with mesothelioma

Display board featuring news re G E Rushworth's complaint concerning the demolition of a former warehouse at Robertson Street, Glasgow. Includes colour photographs of the site and extract from the article 'Procurator Fiscal takes up asbestos demolition complaint','Health and safety at work' (September 1984).

Includes SPAID and OEDA label.

Display board visualising do's and don't's for the handiman, adequate protective clothing for interaction with asbestos, appropriate disposal methods.

Display board featuring colour photographs of diseased organs: mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis - pleural thickening.

1 poster, two colours.

In addition to Nancy Tait, speakers included Prof. Lorenzo Tomatis (International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon), Prof. Franco Berrino (Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan), Prof. Henri Pézerat (CNRS, Paris), Bianca Guidetti Serra (lawyer, Turin), Yves Frémion (member of the French Green Party & member of the European Parliament), Prof. Annie Thébaud-Mony (Inserm, Paris), Dr Emanuele Lauria (USL Grugliasco, Turin), Maria Wojtowicz (USL Grugliasco, Turin), Dr Vito Totire (USL 28 Bologna), Richard Jackson (Ban Asbestos, UK) and Elisabeth Ramat (Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL) Nazionale).