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

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).

Copy of the booklet.

Poster announcing a seminar on occupational disease, 13-14 September 1979, Chicago.

Issued by the US Department of Labour.

Poster issued by the US Department of Labour.

Prepared by the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers (OCAW) International Union, and designed by Joseph Jacobs, written by Molly Coye MD and produced by Dorothy Cochrane.

OSHA No. 3038.

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

Copy of the booklet

Copy of typescript (ring-bound) Expert Panel report, prepared at the request of Royal Society of Canada.

INSERM = Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, i.e. the French biomedical and public health research institution created in 1964.

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

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

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

Copy of a report published by the Commission des accidents du travail du Québec, Montréal.

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.

• copy of ‘UK asbestos – the definitive guide’ (2004), produced by a working party under chairmanship of Julian Lowe of Norwich Union
• Nancy Tait's notes on the text and correspondence with Rodney Nelson Jones of Field Fisher Waterhouse

The guide discusses the estimated future cost to the UK insurance industry of asbestos-related claims (£4-£10 billion), November 2004. Nelson-Jones suspected that the insurance industry exaggerated these costs.

Papers and correspondence, chiefly with David Gee, re asbestos-induced diseases in shipyard workers (1982), reforms of the industrial injuries scheme 1982, World in Action documentary on mining practices in South Africa (‘Dust to dust’, 1981), an extended exchange re the GMWU questionnaire on production, employment and employee protection in asbestos manufacturing plants (including various drafts, 1979-1980), etc. Includes

• minutes of a meeting between Nancy Tait, David Gee, Tess Gill and Jane Welsh 23 November 1983
• summary of contribution from David Gee to inaugural meeting of SPAID, 10 March 1979 (incomplete)

David Gee was national Health & Safety officer for the GMB Union.