GB 249 OEDA
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Collection
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1969-2009
- early correspondence and papers relating to Nancy Tait’s fact-finding mission regarding asbestos
- minutes of meetings of the SPAID/OEDA Trustees, annual reports, strategic plans
- registers and other finding aids for the extensive OEDA case file series (OEDA CF); see link below
- information resources on employers and insurers and other materials for supporting compensation claims
- some case correspondence, medical appeals correspondence, correspondence with the medical appeal administration, and with the social security commissioner
- documentation of the different types of information services provided by SPAID / OEDA, among them series relating to occupational and environmental health enquiries; SPAID / OEDA publications and display boards; responses to requests for information from solicitors; and responses to requests for information from the media
- records relating to SPAID/OEDA's research into asbestos related diseases, mortality statistics, latency periods; also testimony before commissions, consultancy reports
- SPAID/OEDA's extensive advocacy work over four decades
- interactions with victims support groups, unions, fellow activists, occupational health experts, historians, solicitors and legal scholars
- conferences and meetings to which Nancy Tait and her organisation contributed or which she attended
- information files compiled on specific topics
- series of correspondence and telephone memoranda
- SPAID/OEDA accounts; also fundraising activities including grant applications
- some documentation of the creation and running of the Electron Microscope Research Unit
- instructions and manuals relating to office procedures and information management in the organisation
- reference library (OEDA/K) including the organisation's collection of scientific papers, deposits and judgements, statutory instruments, DSS claims forms 1969-2007, clusters of press coverage, etc
Further,
- OEDA collection of printed material; see link below
- ten series of case files (OEDA CF, see link below)
- OEDA's copies of the Chase Manhattan Turner & Newall papers (OEDA CM, see link below)
- several standalone collections accepted to the OEDA archive during the 1990s, including the research papers of M J Sanders, records of Cancer Prevention Society, Glasgow, and the papers documenting refrigeration management worker W H Knight's compensation claim; see links below