WORKSHOP 4.1
Encourage practical research on
emerging issues including
nanomaterials and climate change
Outcomes of current projects
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Toxicology of nanomaterials
Information portals
Risk assessment
Occupational health surveillance
Exposure registry
Device to monitor exhaled particles (in
development)
Gaps
• Standardisation – how to measure
nanomaterials?
• Exposure / job matrix
• Simple versus complex measures of
exposure
• Occupational versus environmental
exposures
• Co-exposures
Barriers
• Access to companies
• Ethics & issues of sample collection for
biomarker analysis (e.g. HIV)
• Lack of standards (approaches)
Proposed solutions / new projects
And the results of the VOTE:
• Exposure registry – tiered strategy (12)
• WHO guidance for developing countries
(12)
• Collect details of approaches to measure
NPs in the workplace (tiered project) (10)
• Funding (5)
• Translation of emission data into exposure
(0)
• Biomarkers of exposure (0)
Climate change
• Much work being done
• Need to gather and review existing
projects and data
• Learn from others
• Produce position paper
• Workshop to identify gaps and ways
forward