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• Circular letter to national asbestos institutions, 1994
• Print--outs from Asbestos Institute website about chrysotile asbestos, 1998
• Copy of 'What is the logic being applied by anti-asbestos activists?' published by Asbestos Institute, 2003

Includes notes taken by Dalton at the conference.

Subjects include two medical workers who were mesothelioma sufferers. Also includes Irwin Mirchell newsletter, c. 1998.

Correspondence and papers on Lloyds of London and asbestos. Includes:

• minutes of evidence taken before Treasury and Civil Service Committee on financial services regulation relating to Lloyd’s of London, February 1995
• press cuttings
• letter from Dalton to The Independent, May 1995

Correspondence and papers on asbestos in Australia. Includes:

• press cuttings, mostly about sufferers of asbestos-related disease
• ‘Asbestos Kills’ - guide to standards for asbestos removal published by Construction and General Division of Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU)
• copy of Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia booklet

Concerns Southwark Council’s handling of removal of asbestos from houses on the estate.

Internal memorandum from Dalton, Transport & General Workers Union, on a women’s health and safety at work reading list. Encloses ‘Occupational safety and health concerns of Canadian women’ by Karen Messing.

Correspondence and papers on asbestos in Brazil. Includes:

• correspondence with Fernanda Giannasi, Brazilian labour inspector and safety engineer and co-ordinator of Ban Asbestos Network
• academic papers by Fernanda Giannasi, Annie Thébaud-Mony, Barry Castleman

Correspondence and papers from the TUC. Includes:

• press releases and newsletters on asbestos
• evaluation of Health and Safety Executive’s asbestos awareness campaign, 1996
• report on seminar on synthetic mineral fibres held at Health and Safety Executive, 1997
• briefing re Workers’ Memorial Day, 2001
• 'Asbestos. Survey and manage asbestos in buildings now. No hiding place.'. Hazards Campaign/TUC guide, c. 2002.

Includes copy of article.

Communications to Dalton from Charles Wolfson, Department of Social and Economic Research, University of Glasgow, enclosing a conference paper and article by Wolfson on the Piper Alpha disaster.