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Correspondence and papers on asbestos in South Africa, including compensation claims against Cape plc by South African workers. Includes:

• photographs of demonstration
• press cuttings
• Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) leaflets and newsletters

Correspondence between Dalton and Pauline Bonney, Southeast Asbestos Awareness and Support. Includes account of Pauline Bonney’s husband, John Bonney, who died of mesothelioma after exposure to asbestos.

Email from Laurie Kazan-Allen on ban of asbestos in Spain.

Correspondence and papers on Stanley Trenholm, policeman and asbestosis sufferer. Trenholm died as the result of industrial disease due to exposure to asbestos during his employment. Includes notes of evidence at coroner’s inquest.

Letter to Dalton from Stephen Hughes, MEP, on opinion of European Commission’s Committee on Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment with regard to banning chrysotile.

Letter to Dalton at the Labour Research Department from Steve Coleman, Senior Orthopaedic Registrar, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Australia, about power saw hand injuries. Includes photographs of hand injuries.

Correspondence between Dalton and Steve Tombs, sociologist, Wolverhampton Polytechnic, on industrial accidents in the chemical industry. Includes two academic papers, 1990 and 1991, written by Tombs.

Papers on Substitution of Organic Solvents in Printing project (SUBSPRINT).

Report produced for the T&G by the Labour Research Department. The survey was conducted as part of the launch of the inaugural issue of the union's magazine 'Health and Safety Record'.