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Outgoing correspondence, October 2006 to November 2007, in reverse chronological order.

Correspondence and papers re regular donations to OEDA from John Pickering & Partners Solicitors.

The quarterly revenue from this source was £5,000.

Copies of the Russell Jones & Walker Solicitors’ 'Occupational disease group bulletin', 3.1999-31.2007.

Incomplete set: Nos 1, 2, 5, 7, 11, 12, 22, 25, 29 are missing.

Includes

• RoSPA training programme leaflets, 1982-2007
• copy of RoSPA magazine 'Occupational safety and health' (January 1997), which makes reference to SPAID's name change to OEDA
• copy of RoSPA monthly 'Safety express' (March/April 1996)
• copy of RoSPA monthly 'Wrap: health and safety for all working people' (February 1994, August 1992)
• copy of ROSPA 'Occupational safety poster catalogue 1981-1982'

Correspondence and papers re entries for the organisation in relevant directories. In alphabetical order by name of directory or organisation compiling it.

Front matter includes

• listing of all directories
• sample texts describing the organisation
  Descriptions shifted over time and varied with the focus of the directory and the permitted length of the entry. Typical change requests concerned the organisation's name (from SPAID to OEDA in January 1996), Nancy Tait's epithets (MBE, Dr), and shifts in organisational activity caused by fluctuations of funding, such as e.g. the closure of the Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU) after OEDA lost its main source of funding in 2003.

Tables of compensation suits aggregated by employer, in alphabetical order (by name of employer). Capturing employer’s name, previous names, address, still trading yes/no, insurer’s name and address, followed by a table capturing case name, age, address, alive/dead, solicitor’s name, and compensation paid.

Further includes

• correspondence chiefly with solicitors asking for employer information, occasionally photocopies of employer index cards (possibly the previous filing system?)
• lists of case names compiled by disease with cross reference to case number
• photocopies from literature on 'Substances used by plumbers obtained for Murray case' and re sprayed asbestos and other asbestos news in the magazine 'Insulation review', 1959-1965 etc.

Correspondence and papers re meetings of the Tribunal User Group (TUG), 1996-2007.

The TUG appears to have been set up by the Independent Tribunal Service (ITS), London. Following reforms of the appeals procedures, 1999, the ITS came to be replaced by The Appeals Service.

Correspondence (occasionally just covering letter) with individuals affected by asbestos. Includes telephone memoranda, occasionally sensitive personal data, copies of death certificates, etc.

In reverse chronological order by receipt of inquiry. Each inquirer received an Asbestos Facts (AF) number,1324 in toto.

Correspondence.

The Communication Workers Union alone purchased 5000 copies of "Asbestos in your home", reporting in its 'Letter to branches' (8 March 2007) that "demand for the leaflet has been such that additional print runs had to be organised by OEDA ...".

Papers and correspondence including

• copy of HSE booklet (2002) 'Work with asbestos which does not normally require a licence (Fourth edition)'
• HSE news release re HSE guidance on new legislation on managing asbestos, and transcript of Radio 4 programme with Bill MacDonald, head of Asbestos Policy at the HSE, 16 December 2002
• OEDA's critical response to HSE (2003) 'A short guide to managing asbestos in premises'
• draft historic time table on the regulatory control of asbestos dust in Great Britain, 1931 to 1990
• press coverage

Correspondence and papers, including copies of the charity's newsletter 2006 and 2007.

Papers and correspondence with and re asbestos victims support in Wales.

Predominantly incoming emails, covering news, conference information, also Hazards minutes.

Correspondence mainly with Adrian Budgen, at the time Head of the Asbestos Disease Litigation Unit at Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, and papers. Covers current cases, legal developments, specific issues (e.g. preservation of tissue in asbestos cases / PRO instructions to destroy coroners’ record after 15 years), conferences, fibre counts, OEDA fundraising, etc.

For earlier correspondence with Budgen, see link below.

Papers and correspondence with and re HSE consultative document for revised Asbestos Regulations and an Approved Code of Practice (CD 205), in particular re the proposal to remove asbestos-containing textured decorative coatings from the licensing regime. Includes

• extensively annotated copy of Kevin Walkin and Geoff Lloyd (2006) 'A comparison of risks from different materials containing asbestos'
• copy of response to CD 205 by Adrian K Watson
• copy of summary of responses to CD 205 received
• copy of Asbestos Removal Contractors Association (ARCA) document 'Questions raised and HSE's response following consultation on the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006'
• summary of responses to CD 205 to be discussed at a stakeholder meeting on 4 April 2006
• Nancy Tait's comments and response to CD 205
• minutes of meeting of the All Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health Asbestos Sub-Committee, 22 November 2005
• various versions of minutes of stakeholder meeting to discuss HSE proposals to implement the amendments to the Asbestos Worker Protection Directive (AWPD), 11 August 2005
• Nancy Tait's comments on the stakeholder meeting of 11 August 2005