Set of industry brochures on protective clothing, including respirators, clean air helmets, protective textiles. Includes fabric samples of Firotex and samples of Strentex disposable clothing.
Set of industry brochures on paints, waterproofing substances for roofs and walls, damp-proofing and similar.
Set of industry brochures on packings.
Set of industry brochures insulation. Includes a sample of 'Insul'-tube.
Set of industry brochures including samples on asbestos-free gaskets.
Set of industry brochures including samples on flooring, in particular flooring tiles.
Includes a sample sheet of asbestos free tiles from the Marley Onyx (marble reinforced asbestos tiles) range.
Originally included several sets of Marley vinyl tile samples. These were scanned prior to being disposed of for health and safety reasons.
Set of industry brochures on equipment for airborne particle measurement, extraction and air cleaning, and pulmonary function studies.
Set of industry brochures from Cape Boards and Panels Ltd and Cape Universal Claddings Ltd.
Set of industry brochures on roofing products
Set of industry brochures on construction materials and occasional correspondence. Includes copies of 'CEM-FIL news' spring 1980 to spring 1983 (incomplete set). Further includes brochures on asbestos encapsulation material Firecheck.
Possibly recording of a seminar organised by the HSC & the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Belfast, 12 June 1995, whose principal objective was to look at problems arising from work-related respiratory disorders, including asthma and asbestos-related diseases.
Asbestos victims in Northern Ireland were greatly disadvantaged by the lack of a local support network for sufferers; reportedly the possibility of establishing a victims-led group was discussed.
VHS recording of BBC South programme 'First sight: a handful of dust' on asbestos in schools.
'Asbestos newsletter' reported: "This thirty minute documentary examined the on-going problem of asbestos in London schools, apartment and civic buildings. It highlighted the pioneering work of Mrs Nancy Tait, founder of SPAID (the Society for Prevention of Asbestosis and Industrial Diseases), who has been warning since 1982 of the mesothelioma epidemic only recently identified by British epidemiologist Professor Julian Peto. The program was followed by a one hour discussion and phone-in on local radio in which Mrs. Tait, Professor Peto and Nigel Bryson of the General Municipal and Boilermakers Union answered callers' queries and debated the issues raised. The radio 4 BBC series: Face the Facts broadcast a special forty minute program on March 4 which looked at the history of asbestos in the UK."
Papers and correspondence. Correspondence is with Sylvia Collier, BBC South. Papers document SPAID's pioneering role in warning of the mesothelioma epidemic ahead, long before the Health & Safety Executive's joint press announcement (with Julian Peto) on 3 March 1995 that asbestos is dangerous also to those not involved in its production.
Recording of 'Facing South' programme, probably named 'Working to death' and probably transmitted 18 October 1990.
2 copies.
Recording of 'First Tuesday: the legacy of asbestos’, reportedly a Yorkshire Television documentary six years after 'Alice - a fight for life'.
One of the copies is inscribed 'Armley | First Tuesday. | The Legacy of Asbestos (Refers to Alice - A Fight For Life, six years ago) | 19'.
May be the same as or a sequel/prequel of 'First Tuesday: too close to home', broadcast 6 December 1988, which told the story of the Armley community where mortality from mesothelioma was unusually high due to exposure to asbestos dust from J W Roberts factory, which had closed in 1958.
2 copies.