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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.

Case register 1
GB 249 OEDA/B/1/1/2 · Item · c.1978-c.1985
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Table of cases 1-646, in rough chronological order (with significant exceptions).

Capturing name, disease, date contacted SPAID, solicitor (name and date contacted), SMB (Special Medical Board) decision awarded/refused, notice to appeal given (ACK), appeal papers received, SPAID's submission sent, hearing date, comments. Of these, columns chiefly used are the first 3-4 and the last.

GB 249 OEDA/C/3/3/3 · Item · c.1987-c.1990s
Part of Occupational and Environmental Diseases Association (William Ashton Tait) Archives

Poster of news coverage in response to the proposal to build a private hospital on derelict industrial land on the north bank of the River Clyde between Clydebank and Dalmuir.

The SPAID caption reads: 'Old asbestos waste dumps are a hazard, men wore respirators and protective overalls when clearing Clydebank site where children have played. Thousands of tons of asbestos waste were dumped there during the thirty three years that Turner and Newalls factory operated.'

The hospital complex, a project of Health Care International, opened in June 1994 and incorporated a four star hotel so that family could travel with patients. Reportedly it cost £ 7m to decontaminate the site, which had previously been used by Turner Asbestos Cement (TAC) Co Ltd / TAC Construction Materials Ltd.

GMBATU 1984-1987

Correspondence with GMBATU Health & Safety officers (in particular David Gee), and papers. Includes:

  • questionnaire for survey of health hazards and chemical substances in the food industry 1986
  • typescript summarising GMBATU's take on R Doll & J Peto (1985) ‘Asbestos: effects on health of exposure to asbestos - the risk of asbestos in buildings’ (Doll/Peto Report)
  • typescript summarising GMBATU's view of the consultative document (1985) ‘Control of asbestos at work: draft regulations and draft approved code of practice’
  • typescript article ‘How self-regulation fails to protect workers – the asbestos story’ (1984)
  • GMBATU (1984) ‘Progress report on fibrous dust campaign 1980-1984’
  • drafts of HSE leaflet on asbestos brake linings, 1984
  • draft GMBATU guide (1984) ‘The extent and characteristics of asbestos diseases – a guide for doctors, solicitors, union officials & exposed workers’ (1984)
  • draft GMBATU 'TIE pamphlet', 1984; TIE being thermal insulation engineers, also known as laggers
  • typescript GMBATU (1984) 'Draft TUC leaflet on asbestos'
  • press coverage
  • a little case correspondence

Papers and correspondence, chiefly with David Gee, re asbestos-induced diseases in shipyard workers (1982), reforms of the industrial injuries scheme 1982, World in Action documentary on mining practices in South Africa (‘Dust to dust’, 1981), an extended exchange re the GMWU questionnaire on production, employment and employee protection in asbestos manufacturing plants (including various drafts, 1979-1980), etc. Includes

  • minutes of a meeting between Nancy Tait, David Gee, Tess Gill and Jane Welsh 23 November 1983
  • summary of contribution from David Gee to inaugural meeting of SPAID, 10 March 1979 (incomplete)

David Gee was national Health & Safety officer for the GMB Union.