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Copy of program and a few other papers relating to the xixth International Congress on Occupational Health ‘Organisational and Social Aspects of Occupational Health’, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 25-30 September 1978.

Includes abstract of joint presentation by Nancy Tait and patient activist Jean Robinson on the inadequacies of then present methods of compiling statistics for occupational disease and on how regulations governing the award of industrial injury benefits inhibit the investigation of occupational risks that affect workers and their families.

Jean Robinson (b. 1930, née Lynch) was one of the original SPAID trustees. She was a patient activist and had been a member of several patient groups when she became the chair of the Patients Association in 1973. In 1979 she became a lay member of the General Medical Council (GMC).

Copy of brochure, originally comb-bound, containing the following seminar papers:

• William Evans (partner at Dibb Lupton Broomhead) 'The future for claims covered by insurance'
• Phil Bell (liability insurance manager, Sun Alliance) 'Lessons learned by underwriters?'

Two further presentation - Prof. Julian Peto on 'The future incidence and causes of asbestos related disease' and Prof. Andrew Newman-Taylor on 'The increase in the incidence of asthma and implications for the future' - are missing.

Papers and correspondence (including telephone memoranda) re Westminster Council's management of the Elgin Estate (Chantry and Hermes Points), in particular whether the Council took appropriate action in response to information about asbestos at the blocks and complaints from people who lived in them. Includes

• documentation of local campaigning subsequent to the Barratt report (see below), including a discussion between former tenants and Dr Julian Peto, February 1997
• copy of John Barratt (24 January 1996) ‘Report of a documentary review into the use by Westminster Council of Hermes and Chantry Points, Elgin Estate, Westminster, for housing purposes, given the presence of asbestos' ("Barratt Report")
• copies of Westminster Council papers (including minutes), relating to the management of the estate 1983-1991
• copies of 'WECH [Walterton & Elgin Community Homes] News', 1996 and earlier

The Barratt report coincided with a press conference to launch the 'Asbestos hazards handbook', at which Nancy Tait was one of five invited speakers.

Correspondence with and papers and correspondence relating to Sir Richard Doll and his research.
Richard Doll was a doctor and pioneering researcher with a particular focus on lung cancer. Doll published the first research showing the link between smoking and lung cancer. Nancy Tait and SPAID did not always agree with Doll's research findings and sometimes disputed his calculations in relation to the environmental risk from asbestos.

Papers include:
-copies of Richard Doll articles and research
-copies of some articles by Richard Doll and Julian Peto
-reports and papers about SPAID's comments on Doll's research
-correspondence and copies of correspondence with Richard Doll about his research
-handwritten notes commenting on Doll's research
-statistics on asbestos-related deaths
-copies of press clippings mentioning Doll's research
-correspondence about interactions with Richard Doll
-a transcript of 'smoke gets in your eyes' 'Brass Tacks' BBC programme, 17 November 1987
-correspondence about US and Canadian research on asbestos
-correspondence with newspapers about misleading articles
-correspondence contradicting Doll's research into asbestos in break linings
-correspondence discussing the shortcomings of Doll and Peto's report: 'Asbestos- Effects on Health of Exposure to Asbestos- the Risk from Asbestos in Buildings', 1985.

'Z files' were part of a new workflow for triaging queries on asbestos-related disease, implemented in the OEDA office from June 1998. The majority of Z-cases closed with a standard reply. However, a number of them grew into more substantial exchanges including coroner's and/or postmortem reports, clinicians' notes, and compensation and benefits claim information.

The workflow came with instructions on office procedures for processing 'First reports' to 'Z-cases'.

Response to a request for information from Mr B Zapata, 1987.

Correspondence with and about safety and environment campaigner Alan Dalton.
Includes:
-Papers about the TUC Safety Convention 1997
-Correspondence about the death of Alan Dalton, on 11 Dec 2003, and his funeral
-A document: 'A Tribute to Alan Dalton'
-Minutes of a meeting of the National Hazards Campaign, 15 July 2002
-Papers and correspondence about a joint Hazards Campaign/TUC conference, 23 April 2001, at which Nancy Tait spoke
-Invitation to Alan Dalton's 50th Birthday Party
-Press Releases
-Some copies of Dalton articles
-Correspondence about Alan's involvement in and his leaving the 'Transport and General Workers' Union' (T&G)
-Correspondence about the OEDA 'balloon release', 1998
-Dalton's comments on the 'Peto Report', 1997
-Correspondence about fibre levels
-Copy of booklet 'Fighting Asbestos at work & at home'
-Copies of various articles about asbestos
-Copy of an article about John McPherson's story: 'Gleswegians fight asbestos'

Nancy Tait and her organisation actively engaged with the Disability Alliance in the early 1980s. In 1989 they let membership lapse but continued to purchase the 'Disability Alliance handbook' each year until 2006.

Disability Alliance is a London-based charity currently named Disability Rights UK.

A little correspondence, including OEDA's response to the Breathe Easy Survey, 1998, and a sample gift that accompanied the BLF gift appeal in December of that year.

Correspondence and papers, among them news coverage, press reports, scientific papers. Includes:

• correspondence with Belgian journalist Salvatore Nay (with copy of Nay’s contribution to the special issue of the ‘International journal of occupational and environmental health’ (IJOEH), ‘War on asbestos’ vol. 9(3) (2003) on floppy disc); further includes photocopy of a note by Étienne Auribault, Health & Safety Inspector, re asbestos, published in ‘Bulletin de l’inspection du travail’ 1906
• correspondence re the European Union Directive on exposure to asbestos at work and other European health & safety measures
• a little material relating to German Green politician and activist Petra Kelly; the Tait-Kelly correspondence can be consulted in the Petra-Kelly-Archive, Archive, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin
• extract from proceedings of the IFF/WHO-EUROPE workshop ‘Cultural factors in worksite health promotion’, ?Linz, Austria, 31 May - 5 June 1987

Salvatore Nay was director of Francophone radio television in Belgium (RTBF) and one of the first in Belgium to reveal the asbestos scandal.

Copies of the 'British asbestos newsletter' (or 'BAN') 1990-2007, with intercalated material including correspondence.

Incomplete set; the following numbers are missing:

• ?2, ?4, 6, 9, 27, 37, 43, 44, 50, 51, 54, 55, and 66

BAN was founded and edited by global anti-asbestos advocate Laurie Kazan-Allen.

Correspondence, in reverse chronological order. Nearly all of it email and email attachments.