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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'

Conference programme, list of participants, Nancy Tait's handwritten notes on the sessions.

Correspondence, telephone memoranda and papers (conference programmes, invitations) re events Nancy Tait and her staff considered attending, including events such as OEDA Fellowship group meetings at St Barnabas Church.

Correspondence and papers. Includes National Hazards Conference announcements, minutes of meetings of the National Hazards Campaign, occasionally minutes of the European Work Hazards Network Steering Group, successive versions of Hazards Campaign Charter.

Predominantly papers including

• copy of Disability Alliance (1988) 'Severe disablement allowance: hard to claim, impossible to live on'
• papers relating to the review of attendance allowance 1983-1984
• copies of an exchange between Peter Townsend (chairperson of the Disability Alliance) and representatives of federations for the blind, 1983
• SPAID commentary on Command Paper 8420 'Reform of the Industrial Injuries Scheme', March 1982
• typescript 'Comments and recommendations regarding an employment policy for the disabled' and copy of Manpower Services Commission (1981) 'Review of the quota scheme for the employment of disabled people: a report' (1981)
• copies of correspondence between Nancy Tait and speakers at a fringe meeting in Llandudno, September 1981
• typescript Disability Alliance (1980) 'How many disabled people are there?'
• copy of DHSS discussion document (February 1980) 'Industrial injuries compensation'
• typescript Disability Alliance (1978) 'Memorandum to the DHSS about the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury' [Pearson Commission]
• listing of Disability Alliance publications held in SPAID's Cuffley office

Correspondence discussing provisional damages, conditional fees and access to justice. Includes

• Association of Personal Injury Lawyers' (APIL) responses to The Lord Chancellor's 1998 Consultation Paper 'Access to justice with conditional fees', and copy of the text in question
• SPAID summary of what the then new conditional fee rules involve, 1995
• sample provisional fees agreement Field Fisher Waterhouse and copy of the firm's client guide on provisional fees
• photocopy of draft statutory instrument ‘Conditional fee agreement order' (1995)
• correspondence with several law firms, among them Gadsby Wicks Solicitors (Chelmsford), Field Fisher Waterhouse and Rowley Ashworth, re Law Commission Consultation Paper on provisional damages (1992) and re conditional fees.
• extract from the Law Commission's 1992 Consultation Paper on provisional damages (presumably 'Structured settlements and interim and provisional damages', Consultation Paper No 125)

Correspondence and press coverage on the London underground and asbestos dust, 1982-2000. Includes photocopy of House of Commons ‘Written answers, London Tube Railways (Asbestos Lining) (1932)’.

Correspondence and papers (including press coverage) arising from articles by Christopher Booker, in particular the article in The Sunday Telegraph, 17 March 2002, discussing the debate on health & safety at work (especially asbestos) in the House of Commons, 14 March 2002. Includes:

• OEDA letters/faxes to the editor of The Sunday Telegraph
• letter to Dr Alan Whitehead MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
• section with copies of Booker's articles re asbestos, January-October 2002

Indicates that OEDA at that stage had a website.

Recording and transcript of Rosie Priest in conversation with Tam Mooney, mesothelioma sufferer, in 2019.

Includes correspondence relating to the establishment, provision and withdrawal of the following prizes and scholarships:

• Samuel Dow Ltd Wine Awards, sponsored by Samuel Dow Ltd
• Harvey Wine Award, sponsored by John Harvey and Sons Ltd
• Claire Randall Award for special business subjects, sponsored by former Scottish Hotel School student, Claire Randall
• Compass Services/Grandmet Catering Services Award for management subjects (originally established as the Eglinton Hotels Prize)
• More's Hotel Prize for reception practice
• Grand Metropolitan Hotel Prizes, including the Grand Metropolitan Scholarship (travelling award)
• Savarin Award for hotel operations, sponsored by Calor Gas Ltd
• Medaille Culinaire Award for catering practical work, sponsored by Scottish Gas
• Merite Culinaire Award for catering laboratory work, sponsored by the South of Scotland Electricity Board
• Scottish Society of Epicureans Awards for culinary ability and for food and beverage service, sponsored by the Scottish Society of Epicureans

Includes interviews of representatives from the following companies:

• ABN Bank
• AMRO bank
• Bank of America
• Allied Irish Banks
• Bank of Ireland
• Investment Bank of Ireland
• Bank of Scotland
• Barclays Bank
• Citibank
• Continental Corporation
• Alexander Howden
• Irish Life
• Associated Banks in Ireland
• Lloyds Bank
• Marsh and McLennan
• Marine Midland
• Midland Bank
• NMB Bank
• National Bank of North America
• Western Bancorp
• National Westminster
• Provident Financial Group
• Royal Bank of Scotland
• Salomon Brothers
• Standard Chartered
• Stenhouse Holdings
• Union Bancorp
• Union Bank

With original index. Includes an annotated copy of the summary of Committee decisions relating to the Scottish Hotel School (see OF/26/1/8).

Recording and partial transcript of conversation between Callum Brown and Terry and Ann Johnson (pseudonyms), 23 August 1997. Ann Johnson was originally from Central Scotland and moved to Lerwick with husband Terry in 1985. They discuss moving to Lerwick and first impressions of Up-helly-aa festival. They also describe 'hamefarins' where people with connections to Shetland return to the island. Terry describes his lasting impressions of the festival, the preparations undertaken by squads for the festival, the secretive nature of the preparations, and the festival's connection to drinking alcohol. The make-up of Up-helly-aa squads is discussed as well as the costume preparations and the role of women in costume creation. Terry describes Up-helly-aa's place in the school curriculum, the role of the Jarl throughout the year, and discusses the content of the sketches performed by the squads.

Set of industry brochures on construction materials and occasional correspondence. Includes copies of 'CEM-FIL news' spring 1980 to spring 1983 (incomplete set). Further includes brochures on asbestos encapsulation material Firecheck.