The UCD nanosafety workshop (03 December 2018): towards developing a consensus on safe handling of nanomaterials within the Irish university labs and beyond – a report

Autor:	Ravi Yadav, Hugh E. Giffney, Marc Farrelly, Aisling Fleming, Bridget V. Hogg, Meritxell B. Cutrona, Krutika Singh, Fergal O Meara, Colm Delaney, Caroline Twarog, Alison L. Reynolds, Niamh Geoghegan, Gwyneth MacMaster, Shreyas Phadke, Jacek K. Wychowaniec, Shada Ali Alsharif, Ayana Anandan, Sumesh Erikandath, Fiona McCartney, Samir A. Belhout, Sourav Bhattacharjee, Jasmin McCaul, Vivien Stuttgen, Jessica Mc-Fadden, Anwar Alabdali, Lucia Podhorska, Mark D Alton, Susan Gaines, Mark O Loughlin, Peter Coulahan, Sarinj Fattah, Nahlah Ahmed Al-Hadhrami
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Safety Management Engineering Universities Consensus Development Conferences as Topic Biomedical Engineering Guidelines as Topic 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Toxicology Safe handling 01 natural sciences Specimen Handling Irish Occupational Exposure Humans 0105 earth and related environmental sciences business.industry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology language.human_language Nanostructures language Engineering ethics Laboratories 0210 nano-technology business Ireland Working environment
Zdroj:	Nanotoxicology. 13:717-732
ISSN:	1743-5404 1743-5390
Popis:	Careful handling of the nanomaterials (NMs) in research labs is crucial to ensure a safe working environment. As the largest university in Ireland, University College Dublin (UCD) has invested significant resources to update researchers working with NMs. Due to sizes often100 nm, the NMs including nanoparticles, harbor unprecedented materialistic properties, for example, enhanced reactivity, conductivity, fluorescence, etc. which albeit conferring the NMs an edge over bulk materials regarding the applied aspects; depending on the dose, also render them to be toxic. Thus, a set of regulatory guidelines have emerged regarding safe handling of the NMs within occupational set-ups. Unfortunately, the current regulations based on the toxic chemicals and carcinogens are often confusing, lack clarity, and difficult to apply for the NMs. As a research-intensive university, a diverse range of research activities occur within the UCD labs, and it is difficult, at times impossible, for the UCD Safety, Insurance, Operational RiskCompliance (SIRC) office to develop a set of common guidelines and cater throughout all its labs conducting research with the NMs. Hence, a necessity for dialog and exchange of ideas was felt across the UCD which encouraged the researchers including early stage researchers (e.g. PhDs, Postdocs) from multiple schools to participate in a workshop held on the 03 December 2018. The workshop tried to follow a pragmatic approach, where apart from discussing both the
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