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Copy of the booklet.

• copy of ‘UK asbestos – the definitive guide’ (2004), produced by a working party under chairmanship of Julian Lowe of Norwich Union
• Nancy Tait's notes on the text and correspondence with Rodney Nelson Jones of Field Fisher Waterhouse

The guide discusses the estimated future cost to the UK insurance industry of asbestos-related claims (£4-£10 billion), November 2004. Nelson-Jones suspected that the insurance industry exaggerated these costs.

Copy of the booklet

Testimony of Dr Julian Peto before the Royal Commission on matters of health and safety arising from the use of asbestos in Ontario, 29 and 30 July 1981, 2 vols.

Correspondence including SPAID comment ‘Work with asbestos insulation and sprayed coatings: draft approved code of practice and draft guidance notes’ (November 1979) and photocopy of Nancy Tait's typescript ‘Thermal insulation materials and cancer’, 22 February 1977

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?'.

Shows Harts Lane area, Barking.

Correspondence re obtaining a copy of the commission’s report, excerpts from the report, copy of Terence G Ison (1982) ‘Workers’ compensation and asbestos in Ontario: a commentary on the report [to the Royal Commission …] of Peter S Barth’

Recording from the conference 'The third wave of asbestos disease: exposure to asbestos in place. Public health control', Collegium Ramazzini, New York, 7-9 June 1990.

Papers and a little covering correspondence re the proposed US Senate bill ‘to amend the Toxic Substance Control Act to reduce the health risks posed by asbestos-containing products’ and the contemporary asbestos compensation crisis in the US. Includes

• copy of Senator Murray’s proposed bill
• copies of Judge Griffin B Bell’s June 2002 speeches on asbestos litigation and judicial leadership

In Nancy Tait's circles, people monitoring these developments included Own Tudor, Laurie Kazan-Allen and Adrian Budgeon.

Public service message from the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Poster reporting on six of the 42 new cases handled by SPAID since October 1983:

• 48 year old maintenance fitter diagnosed with mesothelioma, after only three years occasional contact with asbestos in naval dockyards
• 69 year old mesothelioma patient who worked for Turner & Newall, Manchester, for one year, 30 years ago
• 48 year old mesothelioma patient who came in contact with asbestos during an apprenticeship with ICI, likewise 30 years ago
• 42 year old former merchant seaman and cargo inspector at Plymouth docks, on severe pain medication for his mesothelioma
• 45 year old electrical engineer diagnosed with mesothelioma

Poster of news coverage in response to the proposal to build a private hospital on derelict industrial land on the north bank of the River Clyde between Clydebank and Dalmuir.

The SPAID caption reads: 'Old asbestos waste dumps are a hazard, men wore respirators and protective overalls when clearing Clydebank site where children have played. Thousands of tons of asbestos waste were dumped there during the thirty three years that Turner and Newalls factory operated.'

The hospital complex, a project of Health Care International, opened in June 1994 and incorporated a four star hotel so that family could travel with patients. Reportedly it cost £ 7m to decontaminate the site, which had previously been used by Turner Asbestos Cement (TAC) Co Ltd / TAC Construction Materials Ltd.

Poster featuring the electron microscope used at the SPAID / OEDA Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU). Subtitled 'A new name for an exciting microscope providing TEM, SEM and STEM modes, plus elements analysis - that's TEMSCAN'. Additional labels were added by SPAID / OEDA: 'asbestos body' and 'chrysotile'.