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GB 249 OEDA CM/3/2/1
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New asbestos regulations (including "evil day" memorandum, 1968)
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- 1965-1972, 1993 (Creation)
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(b. 1953)
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(1920-2001)
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From a lever arch file inscribed 'CHASE 1 | ASBESTOS REGS | The Evil Day Memo| received with big box date ----'
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With a detailed covering letter from Michael O'Connor, 20 July 1993. Correspondence and papers re proposed changes to the Asbestos Regulations and T&N's subsequent steps for compliance.
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- minutes of T&N Chairman's Committee meetings, meetings of Advisory Panel on Problems Arising from the Use of Asbestos, meetings between the Ministry of Labour (renamed Department of Employment and Productivity in 1968) and the Asbestosis Research Council (ARC)
- also records re first prosecution of T&N for breaching the new regulations, 1971
- and what Michael O'Connor (and Nancy Tait with him) termed the "evil day" memorandum of 12 August 1968. This came from the manager of J W Roberts Railways and Insulation Department, advising the Chairman of J W Roberts (A N (‘Sandy’) Marshall) on the probable impact of the provisions made in the draft Regulations on Asbestos re sales of sprayed and other asbestos.The memorandum includes the comment: “If … we demonstrate, by a token effort only of ostensible intention to comply with the regulations, it is conceivable that we can ward off the evil day when asbestos cannot economically be applied …”
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- English