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Recording of White Lung Association ‘We have a right to breath’.

Correspondence with SPAID trustee Ralph Watson.

Nancy Tait's proof of evidence, including extensive appendix. Also Tait's handwritten notes on the meeting.

Further includes

• papers marked 'Papers referred to not appended', among them parts of Alex Cross, '[Presentation at] Asbestos Information Association third annual industry-government conference, 8-9 September 1976'
• copy of SPAID's extensive critical commentary on the final report of the Health & Safety Commission (HSC) Advisory Committee on Asbestos (Simpson Report, 1979)
• HSC/HSE correspondence and papers 1975-1977

Proof of evidence Councillor Kevin Nilan, G E Rushworth and Peter William Wilson (Group Planning Officer of the Borough of Langbaurgh).

Further includes

• testimony of David Stephen Cooke, Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• correspondence between Nancy Tait, G E Rushworth, Kevin Nilan, the Borough Secretary of the Borough of Langbaurgh, and others; includes draft proof of evidence Nilan, Rushworth and Wilson

• correspondence with the Department of Health & Social Security (DHSS) 1970-1981, intercalated with transcripts of House of Commons debates and correspondence with MPs
• correspondence and papers relating to recent cases, 1976, 1978-1981

The first component includes a copy of 'Comments from SPAID on diagnosis of asbestosis by Pneumoconiosis Medical Panels' [1979] and correspondence of Max Madden MP, 1974, among others with members of a Hebden Bridge group practice proposing to undertake an asbestosis study including retrospective survey using semistructured interviews, retrospective death certificate survey, and prospective asbestotic survey.

Originals of Turner & Newall 'Report and accounts' 1976-1981 and some other company performance reports.

Outgoing correspondence, January to September 1981, in reverse chronological order.

Testimony of Dr Julian Peto before the Royal Commission on matters of health and safety arising from the use of asbestos in Ontario, 29 and 30 July 1981, 2 vols.

Recording of Yorkshire Television documentary transmitted 20 July 1982.

2 copies.

Papers and correspondence relating to the Langbaurgh public inquiry, 28 April 1981.

In 1980 Langbaurgh District Council adopted an anti-asbestos policy, refusing planning permission in six cases on the grounds that the projects involved asbestos use. Langbaurgh's policy was unusual at the time in that it was applied to both public and private building projects.

Appeals were lodged against the refusals. Four of the appeals came from local builder C & J Buckley and were backed by the Cement Manufacturers Association. During the ensuing public inquiry, Langbaurgh District Council was represented by QC Peter Boydell and called on evidence from Nancy Tait (SPAID) and G E Rushworth of the Glasgow-based Cancer Prevention Society.

SPAID's testimony at the inquiry, it was later asserted, "brought to light a lot of new information not available at the time of the Simpson Report in 1979" (House of Lords Debate 1 December 1981, vol 425 cc1008-31).

Langbaurgh was a borough in North East England.

• photocopy of (1982) ‘Dust in the London underground: a report by London Transport’
• photocopy of (March-April 1978) ‘International environment & safety: asbestos monitoring’
• photocopy of A Jackson and D F Croome (1962) ‘Rails through the clay: a history of London’s tube railways’

SPAID leaflets prepared specifically for distribution at the H&S exhibition at Wembley Conference Centre, November 1982. Further includes correspondence with the librarian of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), 1981, about access to literature needed to prepare for the Wembley meeting.

Correspondence elsewhere in the OEDA archive (e.g. in the organisation's collection of building industry brochures) suggests that from at least 1980, Nancy Tait regularly attended the 'Health and Safety at work' conferences at Wembley and similar convention, at times accompanied by SPAID staff or volunteers. The organisation regularly had stands at these events and created information displays for the occasion.

Press coverage, January to December 1982. Roughly in reverse chronological order. Original cuttings mostly mounted.

Mainly on asbestos (all aspects - impact on health, state of the industry, regulation, accountability of lawyers, etc) but also covers other themes. Very extensive on Yorkshire Television documentary ‘Alice - a fight for life’ (broadcast 20 July 1982).

Includes a copy of Thames Television's 'Asbestos (Some questions and answers)', compiled by Peter Moore and Alan Dalton in association with the HELP! Programme [1982]. Also copy of the ‘New statesman’ 27 August 1982, with cover story on Alice Jefferson / ‘Asbestos: licence to kill renewed’.

Correspondence with William (Bill) James Simpson, chairman of the HSC, following on from the final report of the HSC Advisory Committee on Asbestos (Simpson Report, 1979).

Correspondence and papers re airborne dust (in particular asbestos) in the London underground system. Key correspondents include MPs Anthony Berry and Max Madden, as well as the Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR), J J McMorrow.

Includes:

• correspondence on low toxicity cables, 1978 (and 1982), between Nancy Tait and Berry, Madden, McMorrow, Sidney Weighell (General Secretary of the NUR) and various suppliers of low toxicity cable
• press coverage 1976-1980
• circulars of the NUR, 1980
• typescript of a report by McMorrow on a meeting of SPAID held at the Friends’ House, Euston, 10 March 1979
• correspondence with Victor Platt of Chingford, December 1978 and January 1979; Platt edited a health and safety bulletin “for trainmen on the east end of the Piccadilly Line”
• London Transport press information, April-July 1978
• Nancy Tait’s research notes and correspondence with Berry and Madden, May-June 1978
• photocopies of correspondence between McMorrow and the Department of Transport, the Health & Safety Commission, etc.
• copies of London Transport Executive’s notes of two meetings between the Management and the representatives of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, the NUR, and the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association, 13 December 1977 and 24 April 1978
• announcement of British Society for Responsibility in Science press conference on asbestos dust in the London underground, 28 November 1977
• photocopies of leaflet ‘Killer dust on the tube’, prepared by McMorrow and the London Work Hazards Group, published by British Society for Responsibility in Science, 1977
• correspondence re the death of railwayman Charles Maurice Hayward, 28 May 1977
• photocopies of correspondence between McMorrow and Prof. E J Shellard re glass fibre dust, 1976

A letter from Nancy Tait to McMorrow, September 1976, originally contained an extensive enclosure: Johns Manville Corporation's response to the US Department of Labour, April 1976, re the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) proposed rulemaking on occupational exposure to asbestos. This duplicated material elsewhere in the collection. See link below.