Assessing the protection of the nanomaterial workforce

Schulte, Paul A.; Iavicoli, Ivo; Rantanen, Jorma H.; Dahmann, Dirk; Iavicoli, Sergio; Pipke, Rüdiger; Canu, Irina Guseva; Boccuni, Fabio; Ricci, Maximo; Polci, Maria Letizia; Sabbioni, Enrico; Pietroiusti, Antonio; Mantovani, Elvio

doi:10.3109/17435390.2015.1132347

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Assessing the protection of the nanomaterial workforce

Published Date:

Feb 10 2016

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http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/17435390.2015.1132347 New Site Icon

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Nanotoxicology. 10(7):1013-1019.

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26865347

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PMC4928025

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Responsible development of any technology, including nanotechnology, requires protecting workers, the first people to be exposed to the products of the technology. In the case of nanotechnology, this is difficult to achieve because in spite of early evidence raising health and safety concerns, there are uncertainties about hazards and risks. The global response to these concerns has been the issuance by authoritative agencies of precautionary guidance to strictly control exposures to engineered nanomaterials (ENMs). This commentary summarizes discussions at the "Symposium on the Health Protection of Nanomaterial Workers" held in Rome (25 and 26 February 2015). There scientists and practitioners from 11 countries took stock of what is known about hazards and risks resulting from exposure to ENMs, confirmed that uncertainties still exist, and deliberated on what it would take to conduct a global assessment of how well workers are being protected from potentially harmful exposures.

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