Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety
Risks, Regulation and Management
By- Matthew Hull
- Diana Bowman
Hardbound, 352 Pages
Published: November 2009
Imprint: William Andrew
ISBN: 978-0-8155-1586-9
Contents
SECTION 1: Risks: What are Some of the Risks?
1. Toxicological studies with nanoscale materials
2. Are we willing to heed the lessons of the past? Nanomaterials and Australia's asbestos legacySECTION 2: Regulation: How are they Currently Regulated?
3. Global perspectives on the oversight of nanotechnologies
4. A nanotechnology legal frameworkSECTION 3: Management: What is Being Done to Manage them?
5. Nanotechnology risk management: An insurance industry perspective
6. Industry-led initiative for occupational health and safety
7. Nanotechnology risk management and small business: A case study on the nanosafe framework
8. A case study of a nanoscale-research facility safety through design and operation

