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Includes:

• copies of extracts from Hansard relating to Health and Safety at Work Bill, 1974
• article, possibly by Dalton, for Hazards Bulletin, 1976
• correspondence between Dalton and clerk of Select Committee on Employment, Health and Safety at Work Act Subcommittee on investigation of 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act, 1981

Correspondence and papers relating to fluoride levels at Anglesey Aluminium, Holyhead. Dalton carried out a study of conditions at Anglesey Aluminium for the Labour Research Department (an independent trade-union sponsored research organization). Includes:

• correspondence with employees
• health questionnaires completed by employees
• press coverage

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.

Includes:

• letters from Nancy Tait, founder of SPAID, to Dalton
• correspondence on Nancy Tait’s husband, who died of mesothelioma
• SPAID/OEDA publications

Correspondence and papers originating from Dalton's interactions with various campaign and support groups. Most of the groups were concerned with asbestos.

Articles, letters to the press and a book review, written by Dalton. Plus one review of a work by Dalton.

Correspondence and papers on explosion at Nypro UK Ltd chemical plant at Flixborough in 1974. Includes:

• report of Court of Inquiry into the Flixborough Disaster
• press releases
• text of lecture at Imperial College, London by K. Gugan on Flixborough explosion and inquiry

• ‘Are chemists human?’ Chemistry in Britain, Vol. 11, No.3, March 1975.
• 'Dangerous workplace or dangerous worker?' Nursing. The Add-on Journal of Clinical Nursing, Vol 2, No. 1, May 1982.
• ‘A chemist’s reactions’ Science for People, 60, April 1986.
• Outline of article on factory inspectorate, no date.
• 'Killing off a killer', April 1988.
• ‘Lessons from the United Kingdom: Fightback on Workplace Hazards, 1979-1992’. International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 22, No. 3, 1992.
• ‘Asbestos hazards: past, present and future’ Occupational Health review, September/October 1995.
• 'Homeworking can damage your health', c. 1997.
• Letter from Dalton to the Lancet on the hazards of white asbestos. The Lancet, Vol 352, 1998.
• Flyer for ‘Safety, health and environmental hazards at the workplace’ by A.J.P. Dalton, 1998.

Correspondence and papers on dispute at Grain Power Station, Isle of Grain, Kent, between Babcock and Wilcox management and staff regarding handling of man-made mineral fibre insulation.

Correspondence between Dalton and various contacts, mostly on asbestos. Includes email communications to health and safety listservs to which Dalton belonged.

Issues of Hazards Bulletin (from 1984 Hazards), a magazine on health and safety in the workplace produced by the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS). Incomplete.