Correspondence and papers on landfill. Includes lists of landfill site operators in UK.
Papers on prosecutions of waste disposal/recycling firms over deaths of employees. Inlcudes press coverage and notes by Dalton on Ian Ward who died while working for Norpol Recycling Ltd, Lancashire.
Correspondence and papers on article by Professor Julian Peto of The Institute for Cancer Research in the Lancet in 1995 entitled ‘Continuing increase in mesothelioma mortality in Britain’.
Includes notes for speech by Dalton at the symposium.
Papers on asbestos in USA. Includes:
- emails and article on asbestos in California and Montana, 2000
- email on levels of asbestos in New York City after terrorist attack on World Trade Center, 2001
Correspondence between Dalton and Alex Reid, Donisthorpe and Co Ltd, on asbestos and railway workers. Includes correspondence between Dalton and British Railways Board.
Croner commissioned Dalton to write several articles for its Asbestos Risk Management newsletter and its Management of Contract Work newsletter. Included are copies of the following articles by Dalton:
- ‘Asbestos in the environment’
- ‘Focus on asbestos’
- ‘High risk activities’
- ‘Why is 3000 asbestos deaths a year not news?’
- ‘What progress on a global ban on asbestos?’
- ‘The duty to survey buildings for asbestos’
Letters to Dalton from Professor Paul Holt, Department of Chemistry, University of Reading on calcium silicate. Includes summary of study at Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, into toxicology of calcium silicate.
Papers on trade unions and the environment. Comprises:
- Dalton’s notes from TUC Environment Symposium, 1996
- report and articles on trade unions and the environment, 1992-1998
Papers on testimony in 1907 of Dr. Montague Murray, senior physician at Charing Cross Hospital, to Departmental Committee on Compensation for Industrial Diseases.
Concerns Michael Ryan’s campaign against workplace stress at the Environment Agency.
Correspondence between Dalton and Patrick Herman, co-ordinator of Ban Asbestos Network. Includes article by Dalton entitled ‘Fighting asbestos hazards in the UK’ for Ban Asbestos Network’s ‘Black Book on Asbestos’.
Communications and leaflets from Clydebank Asbestos Group. Includes paper about Chester Street financial scandal.