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Soft-bound set of industry brochures, compiled for the '1983 building industry convention', London, 25-29 April 1983.

• copy of ‘UK asbestos – the definitive guide’ (2004), produced by a working party under chairmanship of Julian Lowe of Norwich Union
• Nancy Tait's notes on the text and correspondence with Rodney Nelson Jones of Field Fisher Waterhouse

The guide discusses the estimated future cost to the UK insurance industry of asbestos-related claims (£4-£10 billion), November 2004. Nelson-Jones suspected that the insurance industry exaggerated these costs.

Copy of a booklet from the Canadian Asbestos Information Centre's 'Technical facts' series.

Testimony of Dr Julian Peto before the Royal Commission on matters of health and safety arising from the use of asbestos in Ontario, 29 and 30 July 1981, 2 vols.

Correspondence re obtaining a copy of the commission’s report, excerpts from the report, copy of Terence G Ison (1982) ‘Workers’ compensation and asbestos in Ontario: a commentary on the report [to the Royal Commission …] of Peter S Barth’

Copy of the publication, by the Asbestos Institute / Institut de l'amiante [1986].

Copy of typescript (ring-bound) Expert Panel report, prepared at the request of Royal Society of Canada.

INSERM = Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, i.e. the French biomedical and public health research institution created in 1964.

Copy of the booklet

Copy of a report by the Subcommittee on Environmental Health of the Environmental Health Directorate, Canada, 15 February 1976.

Intercalated cross reference to 'Beaudry inquiry', presumably Judge Rene Beaudry's inquiry into the Thetford asbestos mines, Canada.

Copy of a report published by the Commission des accidents du travail du Québec, Montréal.

Copy of a booklet from the Canadian Asbestos Information Centre's 'Health facts' series.

Photocopy of Federal Register (25 February 1987), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763.

Photocopy of Federal Register (30 October 1987), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763. Includes a note by Nancy Tait to L Hawkins and J B Kirkham, 17 December 1989, and heavy annotations re "counting of environmental monitoring samples by TEM".

Brian Kirkham, an expert on electron microscopy, was based at the Biological Electron Microscope Unit, Queen Mary College, and at the London Chest Hospital. In the early days of the SPAID Electron Microscope (EM) Unit, SPAID retained Kirkham as an EM consultant. He also trained SPAID's subsequent EM expert Lawrie Hawkins.

'TEM' stands for Transmission Electron Microscopy / Microscope.

Photocopy of Federal Register (13 May 1992), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763.

Photocopy of OSHA 'Asbestos standard for the construction industry' (OSHA 3096, 1995 [Revised])