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Correspondence including a mailshot to all GMWU Thermal Insation Engineer (TIE) Officers in the regions inquiring what advice they give re stripping of asbestos, 29 July 1982.

Correspondence including SPAID comment ‘Work with asbestos insulation and sprayed coatings: draft approved code of practice and draft guidance notes’ (November 1979) and photocopy of Nancy Tait's typescript ‘Thermal insulation materials and cancer’, 22 February 1977

• Cases, 1982-1988: incidental case correspondence

Includes

• Nancy Tait’s notes for her presentation; also notes of the conference
• copy of Tait et al. (1979) ‘National priorities in occupational disease: the family and the community’, originally presented at Dubrovnik
• copy of The Greens in the European Parliament (1993) ‘The dark side of the asbestos story: presented within the frame of “Bastamiantos“ international symposium on asbestos Milan, April 1993’

Also earlier correspondence with Italian and French anti-asbestos activists (among them Italo Busto) and correspondence arising, re asbestos in railway carriages, work of the ‘Ban Asbestos’ Federation, etc.

Reportedly the conference proceedings were published as 'Atti del Convegno internazionale Bastamianto organizzato da BAEF – Ban Asbestos European Federation, Milano 17-18 aprile 1993', Ban Asbestos European Federation, S. E., Milan, 1994. It is unclear whether Nancy Tait's paper is included.

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).

Correspondence arising from the conference ‘The third wave of asbestos disease’ (referred to by Nancy Tait as "Selikoff's conference") and papers. Includes:

• conference programme, annotated
• report of the exchange between Nancy Tait and Dr Abida Haque at the conference
• Tait's news release on her return from New York and alerts to press contacts
• photocopies of scientific papers 1974-1996 exploring transfer of asbestos to unborn children
• copy of conference proceedings' table of content

There also is a video recording of the conference; see link below.

Recording from the conference 'The third wave of asbestos disease: exposure to asbestos in place. Public health control', Collegium Ramazzini, New York, 7-9 June 1990.

Copy of the remarks of Alex A. Cross, Chairman of the Standing Committee, International Asbestos Information Conference, and Philip E. Enterline, Professor of Biostatics at the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, at the Asbestos Information Association Third Annual Industry-Government Conference, 8-9 September 1976.

Copy of London Hazard Centre (1995) 'Asbestos hazards handbook'. Nancy Tait was one of the five invited speakers at the press conference to launch this publication.

Poster listing where asbestos may be present at home, with instructions to proceed with caution.

Shows Harts Lane area, Barking.

Monochrome poster visualising the presence of asbestos in the home environment. Includes drawings of household appliances that may contain asbestos and schematic drawing of house and garage, identifying where asbestos may be present.

Organisatorial correspondence and papers.

Display board on SPAID's 'Tackle a tiddler' competition, 1993. Labelled 'SPAID'.