Other Honours and Awards

• Reference:GB 249 OEDA/A/1/3/2
• Dates of Creation:1996-2006
• Physical Description:
  1 folder

• Scope and Content

  Documentation relating to Nancy Tait's:
  - MBE (1996); includes a copy of ‘ACADemy: the journal of ACAD – TICA Asbestos Control and Abatement Division’, issue 10 (winter 1996-1997), containing a 2-page article honouring Nancy Tait's achievements
  - nomination for a Beacon Prize 2003 in the category lifetime achievement, in which Nancy Tait was awarded a high commendation
  - Nationwide award for voluntary endeavour 2004 and 2005
  - Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) Sypol Lifetime Achievement Award, 16 November 2005; the award honours individuals who have furthered the status and practice of occupational health and safety
  - correspondence and papers re Tait being selected as a woman of achievement by a member of the Nominating Council of the Woman of the Year Lunch, 2006
  Tait also won a fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust in 1976 and the Andrew Lees Memorial Award, 2001, for fighting "a lonely battle with extraordinary persistence and grace to bring about a Europe-wide ban on asbestos". Andrew Lees (1949-1994) was a former Friends of the Earth Campaigns Director.
  In 1987 Tait was invited to the 'Women of the Year Luncheon'.

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• Archivist's Note

  Created by Anna-K Mayer, 2 June 2016. Updated by Rachael Jones February 2019.

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