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Concerns attempts to end employers’ liability insurance system in UK.

Annotated by Dalton.

Includes consultative document 129, 1998.

Includes correspondence between Dalton and the editor of the Health and Safety Bulletin about the review.

• Reports and newsletters of organisations campaigning against Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation Ltd, a worldwide mining company with interests in metals, manufacturing, chemicals, engineering, construction and the exploitation of oil, gas and uranium.
• Report into operation of Rio Tinto plc’s Capper Pass smelting plant, Hull, written by David Russell, Senior Regional Solicitor to the Transport and General Workers Union.
• Copy of chapter on Rio Tinto Zinc's Bristol smelting plant from ' River of Tears: the Rise of Rio Tinto Zinc Mining Company' by Richard West, 1972.

Letter to Dalton from Robin Rudd, consultant physician, London Chest Hospital, recommending Nancy Tait of SPAID as a contact.

Academic papers on asbestos in Russia.

Correspondence and papers on employment tribunal of Sarah Friday against South West Trains Ltd. Sarah Friday was the National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers health and safety representative at Waterloo railway station. Includes:
• decision of employment tribunal
• photographs
• press coverage
• correspondence and notes
• article by Dalton on Friday for Hazards magazine

Report by Tony Bingham, elastomers chemist, on Scandura [an asbestos product].

Includes press cuttings about asbestos.

Academic papers, press releases and fact sheets on silicosis.

Papers on removal of social security benefits from asbestos-related disease sufferers awarded compensation. Includes:

• report by Clydeside Action on Asbestos, 1994
• fourth report of House of Commons Social Security Committee on compensation recovery, 1995

Includes:

• letters from Nancy Tait, founder of SPAID, to Dalton
• correspondence on Nancy Tait’s husband, who died of mesothelioma
• SPAID/OEDA publications