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Includes consultative document.

Dalton accused the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) of a lack of openness about its enforcement record and requested information under its open-government policy. He subsequently complained about the HSE to the Ombudsman. This series includes correspondence and papers about those requests and complaints.

The series also includes correspondence and papers resulting from other interactions between Dalton and the HSE. There is, for example, correspondence between Dalton and the HSE on asbestos-related topics. There are also papers on the proposed amendments to the control of asbestos at work regulations, papers on the HSE campaign to increase awareness of duty to manage risks from asbestos in the workplace as well as various HSE circulars, press releases and leaflets, mainly on asbestos.

Includes:

• Correspondence between Dalton and Health and Safety Executive
• Report by Parliamentary Ombudsman of investigation into complaint by Dalton against Health and Safety Executive, 1997. The complaint concerned request for information from the Health and Safety Executive under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.
• Report by Parliamentary Ombudsman of investigation into complaint by Dalton, T&GWU, against Health and Safety Executive,1998. Dalton complained that HSE refused to disclose information on the Health and Safety Executive’s enforcement of stress law in the workplace which should have been made available under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.
• Press cuttings and letter on special monitoring by Health and Safety Executive of persistent enquirers for information (including Dalton), 1997-1998
• Letters from Dalton on survey of TUC nominated members of HSC/HSE committees.

Letter to Dalton from Colin Lambert, National Director, Health and Safety Branch, Canadian Union of Public Employees, enclosing Canadian Labour Congress policy paper on just transition for workers during environmental change, April 1999.

'Asbestos - still a risk!' Unison health and safety information sheet.

Includes:

• press releases from Environment Agency about prosecutions
• email announcements from London Hazards Centre about prosecutions
• list produced by Environment Agency of all prosecutions between 1 April 2000 and 31 March 2001

Visit by Alan Dalton, as Environment Agency North East Region board member, to project in Walker, Newcastle designed to stop contamination seeping into the Tyne. Includes comments by Dalton on the structure and practices of the Environment Agency.

Correspondence and papers from the TUC. Includes:

• press releases and newsletters on asbestos
• evaluation of Health and Safety Executive’s asbestos awareness campaign, 1996
• report on seminar on synthetic mineral fibres held at Health and Safety Executive, 1997
• briefing re Workers’ Memorial Day, 2001
• 'Asbestos. Survey and manage asbestos in buildings now. No hiding place.'. Hazards Campaign/TUC guide, c. 2002.

Asbestos guide photographic supplement. Shows examples of asbestos in poor condition in different situations.

Leaflet entitled 'Asbestos - the killer' published by the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions.

Includes correspondence between Dalton and Sir John Harman, chairman of the Environment Agency.

Includes 1 floppy disk.