Nanotechnology to take the lead at BOHS conference
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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Nov 14, 2005
The BOHS is announcing that its 2006 Annual Conference will be opened by Dr Andrew Maynard delivering the keynote Warner Lecture, 'Nanotechnology: the next big thing, or much ado about nothing?'.
The BOHS is announcing that its 2006 Annual Conference will be opened by Dr Andrew Maynard delivering the keynote Warner Lecture, 'Nanotechnology: the next big thing, or much ado about nothing?'.
Dr Maynard is the chief science advisor for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies which is located at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the USA.
The Project was created in partnership with the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Its aim is to help businesses, governments, and the public anticipate and manage nanotechnology's possible health and environmental implications.
Previously with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Dr Maynard was highly influential in developing its groundbreaking nanotechnology research programme on the health effects and control of occupational ultrafine and nanotechnology-related aerosol exposure.
Originally trained as a physicist at Birmingham University, and after completing a PhD in ultrafine aerosol analysis at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, Dr Maynard joined the HSE's aerosols research group before moving to the USA.
His expertise spans all aspects of aerosol characterisation, from occupational aerosol sampler design to state-of-the-art nanoparticle analysis, as reflected in over 40 peer-reviewed publications.
In addition to the Warner Lecture, Professor Jon Ayres will be giving a talk on the possible health effects from exposure to ultrafine particles and there will be further presentations over the course of the conference, including risk assessment of inhaled particles using a physiologically-based mechanistic model and the measurement of nanoparticles.
Occupational Hygiene 2006 is described as the pre-eminent conference in this field in Europe, bringing together leading UK, European and international researchers, practitioners and regulators.
A three-day programme includes sessions on all the major themes and emerging issues in occupational health and hygiene, as well as a wide choice of topical workshops.
The professionally cosmopolitan environment of the conference provides excellent scope to meet fellow hygienists and peers from related professions throughout all sectors of industry, and the associated exhibition, running alongside, presents a range of suppliers of services and equipment.
The preliminary programme will be available on the BOHS website by the end of November 2005, when the on-line booking facility will also open.
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