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Papers relating to Joe Walker, asbestos lagger and safety representative of General and Municipal Workers Union Heat & Frost Branch. Walker was sacked for calling in a factory inspector.

Includes:

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

Correspondence and papers on trial relating to death in 1995 from mesothelioma of David Emerson, consultant surgeon in Sheffield. It was alleged that Emerson was exposed to asbestos as a student and houseman in the Middlesex Hospital in London in the 1960s and 1970s.

Dalton accused the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) of a lack of openness about its enforcement record and requested information under its open-government policy. He subsequently complained about the HSE to the Ombudsman. This series includes correspondence and papers about those requests and complaints.

The series also includes correspondence and papers resulting from other interactions between Dalton and the HSE. There is, for example, correspondence between Dalton and the HSE on asbestos-related topics. There are also papers on the proposed amendments to the control of asbestos at work regulations, papers on the HSE campaign to increase awareness of duty to manage risks from asbestos in the workplace as well as various HSE circulars, press releases and leaflets, mainly on asbestos.

Correspondence and papers on man-made mineral fibres. Research carried out by Dalton for the Labour Research Department.

Letters to Dalton from Battersea Redevelopment Action Group re asbestos and demolition activities on Morgan crucible site, Battersea.

Correspondence and papers on asbestos contamination in Armley, Leeds. The contamination was caused by fall-out from J.W. Roberts Ltd asbestos processing factory in Armley.

Published by British Society for Social Responsibility in Science.