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Four episodes of 'Dangerous Lives' documentary series made by Yorkshire Television for Channel 4. Broadcast in 1989.

• episode about coal miners and health and safety
• 'The silent sufferers' about noise in the workplace
• 'Don't tell the workers' about cancer risks in the workplace
• episode about stress in the workplace

Papers on banning asbestos in India.

Letter to Dalton from Nick Wikeley, Professor of Law, University of Southampton enclosing the following academic papers on asbestos:

• Peter Bartrip, ‘Too little too late? The Home Office and the Asbestos Industry Regulations, 1931’. Medical History, 1998, 42.
• Nick Wikeley, ‘The first common law claim for asbestosis: Kelly v. Turner & Newall Ltd (1950)’ Journal of Personal Injury Litigation, 1998, Issue 3/98.
• Nick Wikeley, ‘Turner & Newall: Early organizational responses to litigation risk’. Journal of Law and Society, 1997, Vol 24, No 2.

Correspondence and papers on noise induced hearing loss in commercial vehicle drivers. Includes transcript of World in Action programme ‘Long Distance Lorry Drivers’.

Papers on removal of social security benefits from asbestos-related disease sufferers awarded compensation. Includes:

• report by Clydeside Action on Asbestos, 1994
• fourth report of House of Commons Social Security Committee on compensation recovery, 1995

Claim for damages by widow of man who died from mesothelioma.

Documentary following the lives of tenants living on the Kingswood Estate in Hackney, East London. This episode is about a tenant who alerts other tenants on the estate to the dangers of living with asbestos in the flats.