Affichage de 400 résultats

Includes:

• press coverage
• Brunel University MSc thesis by G.B. Farrant on potential release of asbestos affecting residents of Elgin Estate, October 1986
• report of independent commission, January 1996
• report by Professor Julian Peto, January 1997
• photographs, 1997
• papers on removal of asbestos from Winterton House and Gelston Point, Tower Hamlets
• publication by Walterton and Elgin Community Homes Ltd, 1998

Correspondence and papers on article by Professor Julian Peto of The Institute for Cancer Research in the Lancet in 1995 entitled ‘Continuing increase in mesothelioma mortality in Britain’.

Correspondence between Dalton and Barry Castleman, environmental consultant, on asbestos-related issues. Subjects include Turner & Newall (including copies of Turner & Newall correspondence, 1938-1964), Richard Doll, Irving Selikoff, World Trade Organization asbestos case.

Includes letter to Dalton from John Hare, of Leigh, Day & Co, solicitors, re Dalton’s letter to the New Scientist.

Correspondence and papers on asbestos in South Africa, including compensation claims against Cape plc by South African workers. Includes:

• photographs of demonstration
• press cuttings
• Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) leaflets and newsletters

Includes:

• account by Jackson of his exposure to asbestos and campaign work
• papers on industrial disease compensation claims supported by Jackson

Published works on asbestos and other environmental and occupational health issues collected by Dalton. Includes several works by Dalton.

Dalton was Health and Safety Co-ordinator at the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) from 1995 to 1998. This subseries comprises TGWU papers and correspondence from this period as well as some earlier and later material.

Includes:

• transcript of coroner’s inquest into death of Shirley Gibson, teacher at Plumstead Manor School, 1994
• certificates of air monitoring tests at Plumstead Manor School, 1993
• notes by Dalton of meetings of parents of children at Plumstead Manor School
• press cuttings
• transcript of BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Face the Facts’ broadcast in 1994
• specification for asbestos removal from Dog Kennel Hill School
• programme and papers from ‘Asbestos and public health’ conference in York, 1984 (includes paper by Dalton)
• report by The Asbestos Institute entitled ‘Ban asbestos zealotry – a gross deception but at what cost to society?’, 1994

Series of files on asbestos-related topics. Some files were created by Dalton in the course of a single role, eg as Researcher in Health and Safety at the Labour Research Department, whereas other files span more than one role.

Dalton was Research Fellow in Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety at the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS) from 1974 to 1978 and subsequently on the editorial board of Hazards magazine, the magazine on health and safety in the workplace produced by the BSSRS. This series comprises papers and correspondence originating from both these roles, including an incomplete run of Hazards magazine.

Correspondence between Dalton and fellow activists, occupational health experts, historians, scientists, doctors, solicitors and others.