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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

Letter to Dalton from Mark Piney enclosing copy of University of Aston in Birmingham PhD thesis by Piney entitled ‘The development of chemical exposure limits for the workplace’, October 1989.

Notes on groundwater pollution from the Rainbow Factory in Cyprus.

Includes press coverage.

• Correspondence and papers on John Macpherson, Glasgow shipyard worker who won compensation case in 1985 against Alexander Stephen and Sons and Upper Clyde Shipbuilders for exposure to asbestos
• ‘Clydeside Action on Asbestos: aims and outline’ booklet, 1992

The article was written in response to an article in the Guardian by John Mullin. Cutting of article included.

Includes letter to Dalton from John Hare, of Leigh, Day & Co, solicitors, re Dalton’s letter to the New Scientist.

Documentary about health and safety of coal miners.