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Table of cases 1-646, in rough chronological order (with significant exceptions).

Capturing name, disease, date contacted SPAID, solicitor (name and date contacted), SMB (Special Medical Board) decision awarded/refused, notice to appeal given (ACK), appeal papers received, SPAID's submission sent, hearing date, comments. Of these, columns chiefly used are the first 3-4 and the last.

Display board featuring news re G E Rushworth's complaint concerning the demolition of a former warehouse at Robertson Street, Glasgow. Includes colour photographs of the site and extract from the article 'Procurator Fiscal takes up asbestos demolition complaint','Health and safety at work' (September 1984).

Includes SPAID and OEDA label.

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’

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

Display board visualising the gradual decline of asbestos imports into the UK, 1968-1983.

Labelled 'SPAID'.

Display board alleging that 'cowboy operators' are putting the community at risk, featuring colour photographs of the Turner Asbestos Cement (TAC) Co Ltd / TAC Construction Materials Ltd, Dalmuir. Includes a black and white photograph captioned ‘Clydeside Turner and Newall’s old factory’.

Includes SPAID and OEDA label.

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including SPAID comment ‘Work with asbestos insulation and sprayed coatings: draft approved code of practice and draft guidance notes’ (November 1979) and photocopy of Nancy Tait's typescript ‘Thermal insulation materials and cancer’, 22 February 1977

Copy of a booklet from the Canadian Asbestos Information Centre's 'Technical facts' series.

Papers and correspondence, chiefly with David Gee, re asbestos-induced diseases in shipyard workers (1982), reforms of the industrial injuries scheme 1982, World in Action documentary on mining practices in South Africa (‘Dust to dust’, 1981), an extended exchange re the GMWU questionnaire on production, employment and employee protection in asbestos manufacturing plants (including various drafts, 1979-1980), etc. Includes

• minutes of a meeting between Nancy Tait, David Gee, Tess Gill and Jane Welsh 23 November 1983
• summary of contribution from David Gee to inaugural meeting of SPAID, 10 March 1979 (incomplete)

David Gee was national Health & Safety officer for the GMB Union.

Copy of a booklet from the Canadian Asbestos Information Centre's 'Health facts' series.

Soft-bound set of industry brochures, compiled for the '1983 building industry convention', London, 25-29 April 1983.

Correspondence including a mailshot to all GMWU Thermal Insation Engineer (TIE) Officers in the regions inquiring what advice they give re stripping of asbestos, 29 July 1982.

Copy of Federal Register (4 November 1983), OSHA, 29 CFR Part 1910.

A photocopy of this inscribed (in Nancy Tait's hand) 'Is it on America file?' and 'Copy needed for work on GI cancers' was in a research file on gastrointestinal cancer among asbestos workers (q v).

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.