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Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) and papers relating to OEDA application for certification against the Community Legal Service (CLS) Quality Mark (at the General Help Level). As of March 2000, OEDA was listed as an entity in the 13-volume CLS Directory, prompting the organisation to decide against a proposal to outsource its telephone line to Rowley Ashworth solicitors. From 2002, OEDA actively worked with the Inclusive Quality Project (IQP) to comply with the quality standard.

Includes

• various drafts of OEDA business plan, OEDA referral and signposting procedure, OEDA confidentiality policy, 2002-2003
• correspondence with and outputs from collaboration with the North London Business Consulting Group (Albert Wright) on the OEDA business plan 1999

The Legal Aid Board/Legal Services Commission (LSC) developed a range of quality marks in the late 1990s and early 2000s. These covered all levels of information, advice and legal representation services. The CLS Quality Marks provided a range of compatible quality marks that could be applied through all levels of information and advice provision. The concept came to an end with the introduction of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act 2012.

Correspondence and papers, predominantly re SPAID / OEDA's status as a charity. Includes copy of registration, annual returns (incomplete series) including updates on trustees, very occasionally also copies of OEDA annual reports.

Copies of earlier correspondence with the Charity Commission can be found intercalated with the trustee correspondence at OEDA/A/2/1 and OEDA/A/2/2; see links below.

Photographs and images of the discovery and removal of asbestos and images of a Reserve Power Station in Melbourne.
Photographs as follows:
-1 black and white photograph of 4 men in hazard suits on a rocky outcrop by the sea, handling what is likely to be asbestos deposits, c1980s
-8 colour photographs of the asbestos removal in the charity's Cuffley Office, mounted on A4 paper, c1970s
-1 photocopy of a photograph of a warning sign for asbestos found in ceiling tiles, with a transcription of the sign
-image of ceiling containing asbestos with the asbestos labelled and the legend 'Parts of Ceiling', on acetate and a paper copy
-12 colour photographs mounted on two sheets of A4 paper, labelled 'Edwards Ipswich, Damages Asbestos Insulation' and one photograph labelled 'Reynolds 1975' on the reverse of the second A4 sheet of paper
-4 black and white prints of 'figures', with captions, illustrating the removal of asbestos and the dust it creates
-11 colour photographs of different views, mainly interior views, of what looks like a group visit to a power station. Found within an envelope labelled: 'Reserve Power Station, Melbourne'
-1 colour postcard showing a lump of asbestos held in a hand. Postcard is captioned on the reverse: 'Crude Asbestos. Thetford Mines, Qubec, Canada, World's Largest Asbestos Center'

Photographs, negatives and other images of asbestos-related research and scientific equipment.
Photographs as follows:
-4 strips of negatives, mainly images of scientific samples (found within envelope labelled 'Wall & Condensors')
-4 transparencies mounted on A4 paper of a lung scan, labelled 'Sneddon Scan. Confidential?'
-photocopy of an image of a tissue sample labelled 'Mesothelioma'
-mounted black and white photograph of a grassy yard area, next to a fence, with detritus on the grass. (Found next to the scientific images), c1970s
-black and white photograph depicting the electron microscope at 'TBA Industrial Products Ltd, Rochdale' mounted on A4 paper with explanatory caption underneath
-2 back and white photographs of the Asbestosis Research Council Land Rover, both with explanatory captions on the reverse, c1977
-1 black and white photograph of the 'Test Rig at TAC Construction Materials Ltd Ditton factory', with explanatory caption on the reverse, c1977
-5 colour photographs mounted on A4 paper, with the captions: 'Personal air sampling in a factory'; 'Photo micrograph of filter showing asbestos fibres with other dust'; 'photo micrograph of filter showing low concentration of asbestos fibres' (2 copies); 'photo micrograph of filter showing high concentration of asbestos fibre', c1970s
-12 black and white photographs mounted on two A4 sheets of paper depicting scientific samples, with captions such as 'Sample D' etc
-7 strips of transparencies, of microscopic slides, sent to Nancy Tait from the University of Reading Department of Botany with cover letter, 1983
-6 black and white photographs of equipment used for handling hazardous substances: a frame with plastic sheeting and arm-coverings, providing controlled access to material
-photocopy of illustrations of the fibres of different types of asbestos
-3 pages of photocopies of lung tissue samples and a newspaper clipping relating to a case of asbestos related cancer, 1986
-photocopy of an image of an electron microscope

Photographs of individuals, some named.
Photographs as follows:
-black and white group photograph, depicting a meeting, with caption on the reverse: 'Mr Bill Simpson, Chairman of the Health and Safety Commission and the Advisory Committee on Asbestos starts the proceedings at the first of the Advisory Committee's three open meetings'
-2 mounted colour photographs of a man in a factory setting, and a view of a factory floor, both labelled 'Mr A G Emberton', c1970s
-2 black and white portrait photographs mounted on either side of A4 paper: one labelled 'Roy Slattery Hebden Bridge' and the other labelled 'Brian Schnacke "Sometimes we stood a foot deep in the dust"'
-1 colour and 1 black and white photograph mounted on A4 paper. Colour photograph depicts an employee driving a fork lift truck, unlabelled. The black and white photograph depicts a gentleman operating a table saw and is labelled 'Mr O'Neill, June 1959'
-black and white portrait photograph mounted on A4 paper labelled 'Mereweather, H' S Ex'

Photographs of events organised or attended by SPAID.
Photographs as follows:
-2 colour photographs, of a race, mounted on A4 paper labelled 'Marathon Bird Cage Walk 1985'
-9 colour photographs, of a SPAID exhibition, mounted on both sides of A4 paper and labelled 'First exhibition, Highlands Hospital, 1981', also includes the negatives of the photographs
-colour photograph of a SPAID exhibition stand, mounted on A4 paper and labelled 'First Wembley, 1981', also includes the negative
-5 strips of negatives of SPAID informational display boards, found in a packet labelled 'SPAID, 11/3/84', 1984

Miscellaneous images found within the ring binder labelled 'Photographs':
-3 items mounted onto both sides of A4 paper: two greetings cards sent to Nancy from the House of Commons with illustrated views of Westminster Palace on the front, and an image of the Yacht 'Britannia' on the reverse, with the caption: 'Asbestos Removed Britannia, House of Commons'

Case register arranged alphabetically by surname with columns for name/address/disease. In address field, date of SPAID-contact. No case numbers.

Further includes a ‘Special interest’ section containing:

• list of British ships (25 October 1994), alphabetized by last name
• (partial) list (case-numbered) of ?mesothelioma? cases, with information on settlement, press coverage; some aggregated by ‘short exposures’, ‘special interest’
• press items, list of MRSA sufferers, list lung cancer cases, bronchiectasis, cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis etc.

Further includes

• list of overseas cases 1988-2007, in chronological order
• medical reports by Dr R M Rudd, 2000

Mrs J Bryant was a long-serving member of staff.

Set of case summary sheets, some of them print-outs of electronic case sheets, others manually populated photocopies of database entry mask. In reverse numerical order, counting backwards from 3730 to 43.

There are occasional gaps throughout and considerable gaps c.2200-43. Annotations suggest that some cases may have been excluded on the grounds that the database was reserved for cases of asbestos-related diseases.

Includes:

• covering note inscribed 'Meena's computer sheets'. The reference is to SPAID staff Mrs Meena Patel
• overview of cases by region, 31 December 1995
• address sheets 'new cases, April '01-March '02'

Set of manually filled out forms summarising case information, presumably generated for database entry. In alphabetical order.

Fields include:

• 'computer programmes' (used to record date of data entry)
• region
• name
• case number
• alive / deceased
• DOB, DOD
• Ref[erred] to SPAID by
• sportsman yes/no
• smoker from/to, ex smoker from/to, never smoked
• cigarettes: commercial, rolled, cigars, pipe
• diagnosis, consultant, date
• relevant employment, employers
• exposure to blue/brown/white/other
• date of first exposure
• date of last exposure
• solicitor
  ...

Card index of employers, matching each employer with individual(s) diagnosed with asbestosis or related condition.

Instructions on how to use the computer in the OEDA office and the databases used by the organisation, in particular 'Spaidbas', a database mapping company information (employers) to their insurers. Includes

• results of several queries dated October 1995
• also instruction for using the fundraising table in a database referred to as 'OEDABASE'

The computer in question was donated by Rowley Ashworth Solicitors.

Correspondence with Rodney Nelson-Jones of Field Fisher Waterhouse, Solicitors, re their asbestos companies/insurers database Coda, its transfer to OEDA, updates to the database, etc. Includes

• copy of ‘Asbestos database specifications’
• 188pp print-out of ‘List of companies linked by change of name’

Company queries and replies, including invoices for searches conducted.

Correspondence relating to OEDA cases referred to John Pickering & Partners, Solicitors. In alphabetical order by surname of client. Includes

• listing of OEDA cases by case number, client name, John Pickering & Partners solicitor, and date made into a compensation case

Also contains a copy of UK statutory instrument ‘Pneumoconiosis, byssinosis and miscellaneous diseases benefit scheme 1983’.