Controlling health hazards when working with nanomaterials : questions to ask before you start

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Nanotechnology Research Center
• Description:
  "Listed in the publication are some questions employees should ask themselves before starting work with nanomaterials. The questions are based on these fives criteria: (1) Form
  
  (2) Work Activity
  
  (3) Engineering Controls
  
  (4) Administrative Controls
  
  and (5) Personal Protective Equipment. Questions of concern: (1) What is the physical form of the nanomaterial? (2) How it is going to be used? (3) What engineering controls may be needed to reduce employee exposure? (4) Are administrative controls needed to manage the waste and possible spills of the nanomaterials? and (5) Is personal protective equipment needed when working with certain types of nanomaterials? Also listed are some options they can use to reduce their exposures to nanomaterials in the workplace. These options correspond with the questions. The options presented depend on the form of nanomaterial an employee will be using such as: a) dry powder
  
  b) suspended in liquid
  
  and c) physically bound/encapsulated" - NIOSHTIC-2
  
  NIOSHTIC no. 20051103
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2018103
• Document Type:
  Still Image
• Genre:
  Poster
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 poster
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20051103
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:72cbfbe4f879f5964050f5bd17917d7dcb260ad075fb94ab4116036b334d8e1d16641463b854e5e8d8bbce9a2ab054a604846a22c618b41c51af6d08d2adedb5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/52900/cdc_52900_DS1.pdf
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