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Outgoing correspondence, May to September 2001, in reverse chronological order.

Correspondence and papers re the OEDA fundraising and remembrance event ‘Balloon race’, 31 October 1998, which netted £ 239.

Includes colour photographs and draft of the balloon launch order, which featured Nancy Tait, Alan Dalton, Bangladeshi-born British singer Gouri Choudhury, father Fred of St Barnabas Bethnal Green, London. The event took place in Mile End Park opposite St Barnabas, Bethnal Green, London.

Correspondence and papers re the OEDA BBC 4 radio appeal, 14 March 2004. The appeal was presented by playwright and novelist Michael Frayn, whose sister had died of mesothelioma. After deduction of BBC costs, donations totalled £ 7210.

Includes

• colour photographs of Michael Frayn with Nancy Tait, from the recording session in February 2004
• appeal script in various stages
• letters accompanying donations
• materials from an earlier application for an OEDA BBC 4 radio appeal, 1998, with a list of all BBC 4 radio appeals 1996, including name of presenter and amount raised (exceeding £ 880,000)

There were extensive records of donations including photocopies of all VISA card transactions and cheques received. These have been disposed of in line with the appraisal policy.

• HSC Discussion Document (2005) ‘The review of the reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations 1995 (RIDDOR)’
• HSC Consultative Document (2002) ‘Proposals for amendments to the existing two approved codes of practice which support the control of asbestos at work regulations’
• HSC Discussion Document (2002) 'Preventing workplace transport accidents' [this may be from Dalton Papers]
• HSC Consultative Document (2002) 'Consultative proposals to amend the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997' [this may be from Dalton Papers]
• HSC Consultative Document (2001) ‘Proposals for reducing the incidence of occupational asthma, including an approved code if practice: control of substances that cause occupational asthma’
• HSC Discussion Document (2000) ‘Employee consultation and involvement in health and safety’
• HSC Consultative Document (1999) ‘Proposal for an approved code of practice on passive smoking at work’
• HSC Discussion Document (1999) ‘Managing stress at work’
• HSC Consultative Document (1999) ‘Proposals for the radiation (emergency preparedness and public information) regulations implementing council directive 96/29/Euratom, title IX, section I’
• HSC Consultative Document (1999) ‘Proposals for the health and safety (miscellaneous modifications) regulations 1999 and the amendment of the management of health and safety at work approved code of practice’
• HSC Consultative Document (1998) ‘Proposals for revised ionising radiations regulations and approved code of practice’
• HSC Consultative Document (1998) ‘Proposals for amendments to the asbestos regulations and supporting approved codes of practice’. Includes intercalated OEDA comments on the proposals
• HSC Consultative Document (1997) ‘Proposals for new control of lead at work regulations and approved codes of practice: control of lead at work and control of substances hazardous to health in the production of pottery’
• HSC Discussion Document (1996) ‘The future of the lead and asbestos regulations’. Much annotated, by Nancy Tait?
• HSC Consultative Document (1992) ‘Asbestos: worker protection and further prohibitions: proposals for regulations and guidance’ [no annotations or intercalations]
• HSC document (1980) ‘Approved code of practice: control of lead at work’ [no annotations, one intercalations]

Printouts of news items distributed through the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) Newswatch e-list.

Originally filed "Jonathan Bennett" after the Public Affairs Director of NYCOSH.

Poster visualising the organisation's areas of enduring interest: fellowship, legislation, fair compensation, protection for workers, an asbestos-free environment, fund raising.

The poster's title line is 'Can we help you?'.

Correspondence (including telephone memoranda) re OEDA management matters, in particular the transition from SPAID to OEDA and the OEDA strategic plan. Includes

• copies of OEDA strategic plan in various stages
• staff questionnaires and HR correspondence

Owen Tudor (b.1961) became a member of the OEDA Management Committee in 1995. Tudor represented the Trades Union Congress (TUC) on the Health and Safety Commission, the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council, and the Social Security Advisory Committee.

Materials relating to the production of Nancy Tait's ‘The role of SPAID (the Society for the Prevention of Asbestosis and Industrial Diseases) in the prevention of disease and the welfare of sufferers’, chapter 2 in ‘Asbestos: properties, applications and hazards’ vol. 2 ed. Seymour S Chissick and Robert Derricott (Wiley: 1983, 9-62). In reverse chronological order.

Includes

• correspondence including invitation to the book launch
• offprint of the chapter and various draft versions
• appended documents used by Tait to substantiate her claims
• John Wiley & Sons Ltd leaflets

Board showing mainly fibres under the ?electron microscope, from crocidolite, amosite, anthophyllite and chrysotile asbestos to glass micro-fibre, aluminium silicate, ceramic fibre, rock wool, glass wool, slag wool, carbon fibre and human hair.

Display board featuring black and white photographs from an unidentified text on naval dockyards.

Labelled OEDA.

In chronological order.

Correspondence with Paul Cooper of Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU) York. Includes an autopsy report and other medical information. Among topics covered are issues with York pathologists and coroners, and concerns over exposure to asbestos of British Rail passengers. Also a little correspondence re foundation of the York Asbestos Support Group in 2006. Papers include testimony by former British Rail coach builders and asbestos sprayers, and photocopies of confidential J W Roberts Ltd communications re fibre levels produced by the 'Limpet' asbestos cement spray process, 1962.

Paul Cooper long campaigned on behalf of former carriageworks employees who suffered from asbestos-related illnesses. He retired as secretary of the TGWU York branch c. 2010.

Correspondence and papers re continuation of grant through the London Boroughs Grant Scheme. Includes anonymised printout of special interest cases from OEDA case database, 1 July 1997, and copy of grant application, 1 November 1996.

Correspondence and papers re an application for core funding through a Department of Health Section 64 grant. The application was for over £100,000, spread out over a three year period. The named objective was to find a successor for Nancy Tait who would 'work with her to expand the organisation and eventually take over its day to day management'. Includes a draft of the application.

The application was unsuccessful.

S64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 provided power for the Secretary of Health to make grants to voluntary organisations in England whose activities support the Department of Health's policy priorities.