Best Practices Working Group Projects and Reports

Project: Current practices for occupational handling of nanomaterials

Goal: Facilitate the documentation of current best practice guidelines for identifying, managing and reducing risks for the production, handling, use and disposal of nanomaterials across all lifecycle phases.

Follow-up to Seminal Industry Survey Now Underway: A team at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) is now collecting information about occupational practices from producers and users of nanomaterials. This project is a follow-on to the ICON survey published in 2006. Please consider contributing to this project by agreeing to a brief interview. All information you submit, including your identity, remains strictly confidential. For more information, contact Professor Patricia Holden (holden at bren dot ucsb dot edu).

Reports Issued

1.  A Survey of Current Practices in the Nanotechnology Workplace: Phase 2 
NEW Table of Contents and Index of Terms - updated 10/13/2008

• Press Release
• Webcast
• Executive Summary     (1.2MB)      (350KB)
• Condensed Report     (1.4MB)
• Intel Lauds ICON Survey on Current Workplace Practices

2. Current Knowledge and Practices Regarding Environmental Health and Safety in the Nanotechnology Workplace: Phase 1

Background Documents

• Invitation for Interview
• Scope of Work for University of California - Santa Barbara Survey 
• Press Release: "ICON Funds Survey of Nanotechnology Current Practices" - (March 15, 2006)
• Press Release: "ICON and UCSB Invite Participation in Documenting Current Practices for Nanomaterial Handling" - (June 8, 2006)