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Correspondence with and re Justice for Asbestos Victims (JAV) Northern Ireland and the BBC Northern Ireland, 2003-2006. Also earlier historic documentation on asbestos in Belfast.

Correspondence (chiefly with Tony Whitston) and papers relating to Greater Manchester Hazards Centre and Greater Manchester Asbestos Victims Support Group; among them minutes of the Greater Manchester Hazards Centre, 1996-2001. Further includes

• letter to Margaret Hodge (Minister of State for Benefits and Welfare Reform) following a meeting with the Asbestos Support Groups' Forum on 25 January 2006
• notes on 'Extrinsic allergic alveolitis: report by the Industrial Advisory Council in accordance with Section 171 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 reviewing the prescription of extrinsic allergic alveolitis for work involving exposure to mists from metalworking fluids' (Cm 6867)
• material relating to the asbestos victims groups in the North's Asbestos Support Groups' Forum, 2005, and the Research Working Group of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council and the T&N Asbestos Victims Meeting 25 October 2002
• copy GMAVSG publication (2004) ‘Asbestos: legislative bars to benefits and compensation: a charter for reform of benefits legislation’ (with an introduction by Michael Clapham MP)
• photocopies of SPAID index cards of T&N workers who suffer from asbestos-related disease
• correspondence re interpretation DSS rules on prescribed diseases
• excerpts from publications on cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA)

Correspondence with Owen Tudor, TUC Senior Policy Officer & TUC Health and Safety Officer, and papers. Includes TUC briefings, TUC asbestos leaflets, reports, conference information, draft reports.

Covers discussions of draft OEDA publication ‘Asbestos: more facts why body counts’ (2001) (the precursor of 'Asbestos: to challenge "fibre counts"'), work of the TUC ban asbestos working group, setting up an OEDA parliamentary panel of MPs with particular interest in compensation for asbestos victims (1998), how a database of insurance companies as potential defendants in asbestos compensation cases could be used, compensation for mesothelioma, TUC official support for safety charities such as OEDA and the RSI Association, access for OEDA to RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) litigation database, etc.

Includes copies of

• TUC briefing documents for Workers' memorial day 2001
• TUC / Jacqueline Paige (1999) 'Women's health and safety at work: a woman's work is never safe'
• OEDA (1996) notes on 'Repetitive strain injury (RSI)' for TUC
• TUC (1995) 'Registering asbestos in public buildings' and annotated draft version
• TUC (1995) 'The future of union workplace safety representatives'

In chronological order.

• conference announcements and booking forms, 1999, 2001-2006.
• copies of ‘Conference news’ 2005-2006, annotated on front cover

• Issue 3 (2006)

Papers relating to health and safety in construction.

Correspondence with Rodney Nelson-Jones of Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP. Covers current cases, legal developments, expert testimony, the OEDA newsletter, Coda (the asbestos companies' database) and OEDA fundraising. Also correspondence re Philipp Lockwood, who briefly acted as executive director of OEDA during 1994.

Papers include

• copy of judgement in James Kelly (administrator of the estate of Patrick John Kelly deceased) v. Smith & Partners Ltd, High Court of Justice (Queen’s Bench Division), 9 November 2000
• pp. 1-8 of judgement in Alan Ford v. Clarbeston Ltd and Walter Lawrence Construction Ltd, Bristol County Court, 23 May 1997
• copy memorandum Andrew Morgan re ‘Legal aid: the problem of “rich widows” and interim payments’, 4 August 1997
• overview of cases, personal injury limitation law (cases were: re Advance Insulation Ltd, Arnold v. Central Electricity Generating Board, Brooks v. J&P Coates (UK) Ltd, Buck v. English Electric Co Ltd, Clarkson v. Modern Foundries Ltd, Cotton v. General Electric Co Ltd, Guidera v. NEI Projects (India) Ltd, Keenan v. Miller Insulation Ltd, Lea v. Armitage Shanks Group Ltd, McCaul v. Elias Wild & Sons Ltd, McLaren v. Harland and Wolff Ltd, Newton v. Cammell Laird & Co Ltd, Price v. Dannimac Ltd, re Regent Insulation Co Ltd, Reynolds v. Spousal (London) Ltd, Rule v. Atlas Stone Co, Tatlock v. GP Worsley & Co Ltd)
• copy of judgement in Jennifer Catherine Charles v. Preston Thomas Ltd, High Court of Justice (Queen’s Bench Division), 13 May 1993

Press coverage, January to December 2006. In reverse chronological order. Some of the original cuttings mounted.

Mainly on asbestos but also covers other themes.

Correspondence with Canadian contacts (1979-1999) and re asbestos in Canada (to 2006), in reverse chronological order. Also papers including research papers, press coverage, news releases, sample death reporting forms. Themes covered include workmen’s compensation in Canada and the Canadian government’s resistance to banning asbestos.

Papers include

• copy of Canadian report on French chrysotile ban (in French, with a summary in English), 1999
• copy of OEDA newsletter (autumn 1998), discussing Canadian attitudes to asbestos
• Canadian regulations on chrysotile, 1998
• photocopies of articles by asbestosis victim and historian Ray Sentes, who had worked as an insulation worker in Canada prior to studying the Canadian asbestos industry and becoming an historian and activist
• Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety press releases 1989-1990, probably incomplete set
• copy of typescript G Atherley and R Whiting (1981) ‘Basic concepts of occupational cancers’, presented to the Canadian Labour Congress Conference on Cancer in the Workplace, Montreal, 23 February 1981
• copy of S Graham et al. [?1974] ‘Cancer in asbestos mining and other areas of Quebec’

One of Nancy Tait's earliest Canadian correspondents was Margaret R Becklake of McGill University. They met during Tait's visit to North America, 1977.

Over time this dossier changed from a correspondence with Canada file into a Canada-themed aggregation in which everything pertaining to the subject of asbestos in Canada accumulated.

Mainly correspondence (including telephone memoranda) re asbestos-related queries re claims against the Ministry of Defence (MOD); also re Australian cases. In reverse chronological order. Includes

• photocopies of SPAID / OEDA "Claims advisory service" sheets
• copies of DSS/DHSS correspondence, solicitors' correspondence
• correspondence with investigative journalists
• photocopies of index cards listing Armed Forces SPAID clients
• press coverage

Telephone memoranda and correspondence in response to enquiries on a wide range of occupational and environmental health issues. In reverse chronological order.

Front matter includes SPAID/OEDA guidance sheets ‘Caring for mesothelioma’ and ‘Worried because you have handled asbestos?’, several versions.