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Letter from a ‘destitute’ man to the Poor Law Commission
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Series
Department of Employment and Health and Safety Executive: Directorate of Occupational...
Catalogue reference: LAB 104
What's it about?
LAB 104
This series contains OSH series files (the main general file series) of the Department of Employment's Directorate of Occupational Safety and Health. A number of files concern the Committee on Safety and Health at Work (Robens Committee), the...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LAB 104
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Employment and Health and Safety Executive: Directorate of Occupational Safety and Health: Registered Files (OSH Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1965-1984
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains OSH series files (the main general file series) of the Department of Employment's Directorate of Occupational Safety and Health. A number of files concern the Committee on Safety and Health at Work (Robens Committee), the papers of which are in LAB 96; other files deal with the development and passage through parliament of the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974, and its implementation; the explosion at Flixborough in 1974; and the Health and Safety Commission/Executive.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- OSH file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department of Employment, Directorate of Occupational Safety and Health, 1972-1974
- Health and Safety Commission, Health and Safety Executive, 1975-1975
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 661 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2000 Health and Safety Commission, Health and Safety Executive
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is not accruing.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10219/
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