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Soft-bound set of industry brochures, compiled for the '1983 building industry convention', London, 25-29 April 1983.

Board bearing this caption, with four black and white photographs arranged to reproduce one single view through the microscope.

'UICC chrysotile standard' presumably refers to Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) reference chrysotile. Not all types of chrysotile appear to have the same capacity to cause mesothelioma.

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Board bearing this caption, with three black and white photographs showing amosite (x5k), chrysotile (x15k) and crocidolite (x15k).

Copy of Federal Register (4 November 1983), OSHA, 29 CFR Part 1910.

A photocopy of this inscribed (in Nancy Tait's hand) 'Is it on America file?' and 'Copy needed for work on GI cancers' was in a research file on gastrointestinal cancer among asbestos workers (q v).

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

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 the gradual decline of asbestos imports into the UK, 1968-1983.

Labelled 'SPAID'.

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

Table of cases 1-411 (2 January 1986-21 March 1986) and 1-58 (2 June 1987-6 September 1987), 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.

Includes inscription (on cardboard backing): 'Overseas cases on the back of sheet one' and 'Donations to be invited also 1986-1987'.

Mounted drawing of ground floor office space at Mitre House, 66 Abbey Road, Enfield, with photographic documentation.

This appears to have been produced by Architects' Co-Partnership (ACP) of Potters Bar, the architectural firm commissioned by SPAID.

Photocopy of Federal Register (30 October 1987), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763. Includes a note by Nancy Tait to L Hawkins and J B Kirkham, 17 December 1989, and heavy annotations re "counting of environmental monitoring samples by TEM".

Brian Kirkham, an expert on electron microscopy, was based at the Biological Electron Microscope Unit, Queen Mary College, and at the London Chest Hospital. In the early days of the SPAID Electron Microscope (EM) Unit, SPAID retained Kirkham as an EM consultant. He also trained SPAID's subsequent EM expert Lawrie Hawkins.

'TEM' stands for Transmission Electron Microscopy / Microscope.

Poster of news coverage in response to the proposal to build a private hospital on derelict industrial land on the north bank of the River Clyde between Clydebank and Dalmuir.

The SPAID caption reads: 'Old asbestos waste dumps are a hazard, men wore respirators and protective overalls when clearing Clydebank site where children have played. Thousands of tons of asbestos waste were dumped there during the thirty three years that Turner and Newalls factory operated.'

The hospital complex, a project of Health Care International, opened in June 1994 and incorporated a four star hotel so that family could travel with patients. Reportedly it cost £ 7m to decontaminate the site, which had previously been used by Turner Asbestos Cement (TAC) Co Ltd / TAC Construction Materials Ltd.

Table of cases 1-945 (4 September 1987-3 December 1990), 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.

Overseas cases inscribed on cardboard backing of the register.

Post-it note 'Third schedule'.

Photocopy of Federal Register (25 February 1987), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763.