Papers on World Trade Organization’s upholding of ban of asbestos by France.
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 white asbestos hazards. In response to articles by Christopher Booker in The Sunday Telegraph and John Bridle in The Safety and Health Practitioner claiming white asbestos is harmless. Includes:
- scientific papers on chrysotile asbestos, 1996-2001
- letter by Dalton to The Sunday Telegraph
- press cuttings
West Yorkshire Asbestos Action Group poster.
Notice from West of Scotland Hazards Group about Workers’ Memorial Day.
Papers on prosecutions of waste disposal/recycling firms over deaths of employees. Inlcudes press coverage and notes by Dalton on Ian Ward who died while working for Norpol Recycling Ltd, Lancashire.
- Channel 4 Undercover Britain episode 'Preying on hope' about miracle cures for the terminally ill
- BBC Panorama episode 'Battling for air' about asthma and pollution
Documentary about asbestos disaster in Armley, Leeds.
Meridian and BBC news reports about Gary Coomber, sheep farmer, a victim of exposure to organophosphates in sheep dip. Features interview with Dalton.
Four episodes of 'Dangerous Lives' documentary series made by Yorkshire Television for Channel 4. Broadcast in 1989.
- episode about coal miners and health and safety
- 'The silent sufferers' about noise in the workplace
- 'Don't tell the workers' about cancer risks in the workplace
- episode about stress in the workplace
Documentary following the lives of tenants living on the Kingswood Estate in Hackney, East London. This episode is about a tenant who alerts other tenants on the estate to the dangers of living with asbestos in the flats.
Programme investigating allegations that homeless families were moved into asbestos-ridden Westminster Council flats as part of an attempt to influence the 1990 local elections.