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Papers on World Trade Organization’s upholding of ban of asbestos by France.

Includes statements by Health and Safety Executive, article by Robin Howie and notes by Dalton.

Minutes and notes of meetings of Asbestos Sub-committee of All Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health.

Correspondence and papers on Court of Appeal ruling preventing compensation to workers exposed to asbestos dust by more than one employer. Includes letter from Nancy Tait, Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (OEDA).

Correspondence and papers on white asbestos hazards. In response to articles by Christopher Booker in The Sunday Telegraph and John Bridle in The Safety and Health Practitioner claiming white asbestos is harmless. Includes:

• scientific papers on chrysotile asbestos, 1996-2001
• letter by Dalton to The Sunday Telegraph
• press cuttings

Correspondence and papers on the asbestos register, a national public database of asbestos in buildings, created by Ross Udall, Chief Executive, AsbestosRegister.com

Includes statement by Dalton as expert witness.

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

Includes:

• scientific papers
• press cuttings
• health and safety publications
• COSLA Asbestos Working Group on Asbestos report, June 2002
• correspondence and papers on death of Shirley Gibson, teacher at Plumstead Manor School
• Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) Asbestos Joint Working Party reports

Letter from Dalton to the secretary of the Enquiry into the Health and Safety Executive Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee about bricklayers sacked for complaining about asbestos hazards.

Correspondence and papers on Stanley Trenholm, policeman and asbestosis sufferer. Trenholm died as the result of industrial disease due to exposure to asbestos during his employment. Includes notes of evidence at coroner’s inquest.