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Includes:

• scientific papers
• press cuttings
• health and safety publications
• COSLA Asbestos Working Group on Asbestos report, June 2002
• correspondence and papers on death of Shirley Gibson, teacher at Plumstead Manor School
• Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) Asbestos Joint Working Party reports

Includes:

• transcript of coroner’s inquest into death of Shirley Gibson, teacher at Plumstead Manor School, 1994
• certificates of air monitoring tests at Plumstead Manor School, 1993
• notes by Dalton of meetings of parents of children at Plumstead Manor School
• press cuttings
• transcript of BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Face the Facts’ broadcast in 1994
• specification for asbestos removal from Dog Kennel Hill School
• programme and papers from ‘Asbestos and public health’ conference in York, 1984 (includes paper by Dalton)
• report by The Asbestos Institute entitled ‘Ban asbestos zealotry – a gross deception but at what cost to society?’, 1994

Includes statement by Dalton as expert witness.

Correspondence and papers on the asbestos register, a national public database of asbestos in buildings, created by Ross Udall, Chief Executive, AsbestosRegister.com

Correspondence and papers on white asbestos hazards. In response to articles by Christopher Booker in The Sunday Telegraph and John Bridle in The Safety and Health Practitioner claiming white asbestos is harmless. Includes:

• scientific papers on chrysotile asbestos, 1996-2001
• letter by Dalton to The Sunday Telegraph
• press cuttings

Correspondence and papers on Court of Appeal ruling preventing compensation to workers exposed to asbestos dust by more than one employer. Includes letter from Nancy Tait, Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (OEDA).

Minutes and notes of meetings of Asbestos Sub-committee of All Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health.

Includes statements by Health and Safety Executive, article by Robin Howie and notes by Dalton.

Papers on World Trade Organization’s upholding of ban of asbestos by France.

Series of files on environmental and occupational health topics other than asbestos. Some files were created by Dalton in the course of a single role, eg as Researcher in Health and Safety at the Labour Research Department, whereas other files span more than one role.

Folder entitled ‘H&S History II’ on the history of health and safety at work. Includes:

• transcript of proceedings at Labour Research Department Speakers' School, 1942
• account of proceedings at open meeting of National Union of Railwaymen, 1943
• Amalgamated Engineering Union first report on health and welfare enquiry, 1944
• report of Labour Research Department conference on accidents and ill health at work, 1960
• press release by Health and Safety Executive announcing first health and safety prosecution on indictment for alleged infringement of health and safety legislation, 1975
• Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs special report on Vinyl Chloride Monomer, 1980
• 'Reagan in the workplace: unravelling the health and safety net' by Philip J. Simon, 1983
• academic papers on various health and safety at work issues, 1948-1991

• report of review by Health and Safety Executive into management of health and safety and the standards of risk control at premises run by Atomic Weapons Establishment plc
• press cuttings on safety at atomic weapons plants