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Display board with reproduction of floor plan of the SPAID Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU), November 1987, and colour photographs of EMU equipment. Also features the EM technician, presumably Lawrie Hawkins.

The board is labelled 'OEDA', which would date it 1993 or after. However, it looks as if this was not the original labelling.

Photocopy of Code of federal regulations (revised 1 July 1997), EPA, 40 CFR Parts 61 to 62 (Subpart M - national emission standard for asbestos)

Photocopy of OSHA 'Asbestos standard for the construction industry' (OSHA 3096, 1995 [Revised])

Poster issued by the US Department of Labour.

Prepared by the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers (OCAW) International Union, and designed by Joseph Jacobs, written by Molly Coye MD and produced by Dorothy Cochrane.

OSHA No. 3038.

Table of cases 1333-3000 (19 May 1992-8 August 1997), largely in chronological order.

Capturing name, disease, date contacted SPAID, solicitor (name and date contacted), SMB (Special Medical Board) decision awarded/refused, notice to appeal given (ACK), appeal papers received, SPAID's submission sent, hearing date, comments. Of these, columns chiefly used are the first 3-4 and the last.

Display board alleging that 'cowboy operators' are putting the community at risk, featuring colour photographs of the Turner Asbestos Cement (TAC) Co Ltd / TAC Construction Materials Ltd, Dalmuir. Includes a black and white photograph captioned ‘Clydeside Turner and Newall’s old factory’.

Includes SPAID and OEDA label.

Includes

• Nancy Tait’s notes for her presentation; also notes of the conference
• copy of Tait et al. (1979) ‘National priorities in occupational disease: the family and the community’, originally presented at Dubrovnik
• copy of The Greens in the European Parliament (1993) ‘The dark side of the asbestos story: presented within the frame of “Bastamiantos“ international symposium on asbestos Milan, April 1993’

Also earlier correspondence with Italian and French anti-asbestos activists (among them Italo Busto) and correspondence arising, re asbestos in railway carriages, work of the ‘Ban Asbestos’ Federation, etc.

Reportedly the conference proceedings were published as 'Atti del Convegno internazionale Bastamianto organizzato da BAEF – Ban Asbestos European Federation, Milano 17-18 aprile 1993', Ban Asbestos European Federation, S. E., Milan, 1994. It is unclear whether Nancy Tait's paper is included.

Correspondence arising from the conference ‘The third wave of asbestos disease’ (referred to by Nancy Tait as "Selikoff's conference") and papers. Includes:

• conference programme, annotated
• report of the exchange between Nancy Tait and Dr Abida Haque at the conference
• Tait's news release on her return from New York and alerts to press contacts
• photocopies of scientific papers 1974-1996 exploring transfer of asbestos to unborn children
• copy of conference proceedings' table of content

There also is a video recording of the conference; see link below.

Poster listing where asbestos may be present at home, with instructions to proceed with caution.

Correspondence including SPAID comment ‘Work with asbestos insulation and sprayed coatings: draft approved code of practice and draft guidance notes’ (November 1979) and photocopy of Nancy Tait's typescript ‘Thermal insulation materials and cancer’, 22 February 1977

• Cases, 1982-1988: incidental case correspondence