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News Release from: British Occupational Hygiene Society
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 09 August 2007
Nanotech seminar aimed at health
professionals
Speakers at BOHS' Open Technical Seminar will provide a perspective on responsible nanotechnology and examples of nanotechnology applications
BOHS is hosting a one-day Open Technical Seminar - open to nonmembers as well as members - on Nanotechnology, which will take place at the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) in Edinburgh on Thursday 27th September 2007 This should be of interest to occupational health professionals working in paint manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology particularly, as well as those in research or working as independent consultants
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 20 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The seminar will be chaired by Professor Anthony Seaton of the IOM, and includes discussion and debating time, and an opportunity for networking.
Speakers from industry will provide a perspective on responsible nanotechnology and examples of nanotechnology applications, HSE presenters will give the regulator's view, and research presentations will cover toxicology and the Safe Nano Initiative.
IOM's Safe Nano Initiative has just officially been named as one of the DTI's 22 Nanotechnology Centres.
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The initiative will provide strategic, independent and impartial advice to stakeholders - including from within industry, academia and the network of Nanotechnology Centres - concerning the potential risks to human health and the environment from nanomaterials.
Safenano.org, was launched in April 2007, taking the form of a web-based information service with helpdesk support, together with a regular bulletin service and comprehensive database of relevant publications.
Emerging scientific evidence concerning the potential risks of nanoparticles and nanotubes, together with information about health and safety, occupational hygiene, toxicology and risk assessment will be interpreted and delivered to the audience in an integrated way, to support effective risk management.
Nanotechnology is expected to be the basis of many of the main technological innovations of the 21st century.
Research and development in this field is growing rapidly throughout the world.
A major output of this activity is the development of new materials in the nanometre scale, including nanoparticles.
These are usually defined as particulate materials with at least one dimension of less than 100nm .
By comparison, a human hair is approximately 70,000nm in diameter, a red blood cell is approximately 5000nm wide and simple organic molecules have sizes ranging from 0.5 to 5nm.
The Nanotechnology seminar can be booked on-line via the BOHS website, where the programme is also available.
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