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Correspondence and papers re enquiries resulting from an article by Andrew Bibby, 'Did your work make you sick?', in 'Choice' November 1993, p.42. Includes:

• copy of the article
• SPAID information pack
• information requests, in alphabetical order

Correspondence on research in China on exposure to chrysotile asbestos. Includes academic paper.

Correspondence and papers on ban of asbestos in Chile.

Correspondence and papers relating to collapse of Chester Street Insurance Holdings Ltd. Concerns scheme of arrangement to pay asbestos compensation claims. Correspondents include: Nancy Tait, Tommy Gorman, Owen Tudor.

Correspondence and flyers.

Annotated copies of ‘Chemicals in progress bulletin’ 1984-1997, incomplete series.

Originally a publication of the US Office of Toxic Substances (OTS), the bulletin was edited jointly with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Press articles on dangerous dyes, among them an article on G E Rushworth’s own compensation claim for occupational cancer of the bladder.

Also includes annotated copy of 'Guidelines for work with chemical carcinogens in Medical Research Council Establishments: provisional statement' (October 1979), and copy of Peter Kirby (c.1982) 'Death in the textile industry: a proportionate mortality study of 952 dyers, bleachers and textile workers who died between 1976-1980' (TGWU Textile Group: Bradford).

Plaintiff's memorandum of law (1989), in Chase Manhattan Bank v. Turner & Newall plc, United States District Court, Southern District of New York. Discusses suppression of asbestos hazard prior to sale of Limpet to Chase Manhattan Bank. Includes a covering letter from Patrick S Guilfoyle of Ashcraft & Gerel, Washington, attorneys of Chase Manhattan Bank.

The lawsuit concerned 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York, the first large multi-storey building with sprayed mineral fibre, mostly Limpet.

Communications to Dalton from Charles Wolfson, Department of Social and Economic Research, University of Glasgow, enclosing a conference paper and article by Wolfson on the Piper Alpha disaster.

Correspondence and papers, predominantly re SPAID / OEDA's status as a charity. Includes copy of registration, annual returns (incomplete series) including updates on trustees, very occasionally also copies of OEDA annual reports.

Copies of earlier correspondence with the Charity Commission can be found intercalated with the trustee correspondence at OEDA/A/2/1 and OEDA/A/2/2; see links below.

Correspondence and papers re application for a Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) grant to cover the costs of a review by the Charities Effectiveness Review Trust (CERT), carried out by CERT consultants Pauline Bibby and Michael Butterfield, July-September 1991.

Includes annotated copies of

• CERT report on the Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood Trust, 1989
• [CERT?] report on LINK: the Neurofibromatosis Association, 1987

Correspondence and papers re application for a Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) Critical Assistance Fund award, to cover the shortfall arising from termination of funding through the London Borough Grants Scheme. Instead of the funds to cover the shortfall, OEDA received a grant for a two day diagnostic to review the organisation's needs. Includes a copy of the diagnostic report.