- copies of HSE news releases (from February 1976 called ‘Health & safety bulletin’) October 1975 – July 1978 with occasional annotations (e.g. ‘Find Rushworth’s comments’, ‘Mines’, ‘Simpson’, ‘p. 4 asbestos’, ‘Simpson Committee’, ‘no asbestos’, ‘Petra [Kelly]’ /’sent’ etc.)
- also copy of news release 24 August 1983, 'Asbestos'
Copies of HSC / HSE leaflets including
- 'Writing a safety policy statement: advice to employers' (1996)
- 'Good health is good business: employers' guide' (1996)
- 'Health and Safety at Work etc Act: advice to employees' (1995)
- 'Women HM specialist inspectors' (1994)
- 'Guidance to employers whose employees are not members of recognised trade unions'
- 'Health and safety law: what you should know' (1989)
- 'Review your occupational health needs: employers' guide' (1988)
- 'Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974: advice to employers' (1976)
- 'Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974: advice to employees' [?1976]
- 'Short guide to the Employers Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969' (1976)
- 'An introduction to the Health and Safety Commission and the Health and Safety Executive' (1976)
- copies of 'HSC newsletter', incomplete set; some annotations
- 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]
Very partial set of index cards of research papers.
Deposition of Dr Kevin Browne (29 May 1988), in Highline School District No 401 v. Turner & Newall plc. et al., Superior Court of the State of Washington in aid for the County of King.
Includes:
- correspondence between Nancy Tait and Edward J Westbrook of Ness Motley, Loadholt, Richardson and Poole (attorneys in South Carolina), 1991
- much annotated 'Index of deposition' [= summary of Dr Browne's position] and clear copy
- copy of the deposition
Deposition of Professor Richard Selwyn Francis Schilling (12 January 1994, London), in Chase Manhattan Bank v. T&N plc et al., United States District Court, Southern District of New York. Includes:
- copy of the deposition
- plaintiff’s exhibits, 1954-1993, among them Schilling's cv and correspondence substantiating Schilling’s claim that the Director of Turner Brothers Asbestos attempted to suppress the publication of Richard Doll’s study on mortality from lung cancer among asbestos workers, published in ‘British journal of industrial medicine’, 1955
Schilling was an authority on occupational health.
Includes:
- typescript list of judgements (two versions), c.1997, in alphabetical order (by name of plaintiff)
- handwritten list of judgements to 2007, in no particular order
- typescript list of legal opinions, c.1997, in alphabetical order (by name of plaintiff), and edited version c.2004
- list of solicitors
Set of photocopies of press cuttings on asbestos, March-August 1997 and March-April 1998. Received from Thompson solicitors via Laurie Kazan-Allen.
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.
Recording of Yorkshire Television documentary transmitted 20 July 1982.
2 copies.
Recording issued by Institute for Environmental Health.
Recording of BBC Advice Shop programme transmitted on 1 February 1988 and featuring Nancy Tait on the topic of fighting the DHSS on industrial injury claims.
2 copies.
Recording of Carlton TV 'Peak practice: the ghost in the machine', transmitted 16 March 1998.
2 copies.
Recording of BBC 'Watchdog', 8 March 1999.