Worker Health Surveillance

 

"[B}asic worker health and environmental monitoring consisting of:

1.  Identifying staff (hereafter 'nanoparticle workers') exposed to engineered nanoparticles whose health effects are not well understood.

2.  Conducting workplace characterization and worker exposure assessments.

3.  Providing nanoparticle workers with 'baseline' medical surveillance evaluations and including them in a nonspecific, routine, health-monitoring program as determined appropriate by the local Medical Director. [See, for example, NIOSH Interim Guidance on Medical Screening Of Workers Potentially Exposed to Engineered Nanoparticles.]

4.  Checking wastes for evidence of uncontrolled release of engineered nanomaterials.

5.  Periodic effluent monitoring as appropriate for each facility where nanoparticles may be released in air (reserved pending development of methodologies).")"¹

In June 2011, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, "ACOEM Nanoparticle Task Force," endorsed NIOSH Interim Guidance on Medical Screening Of Workers Potentially Exposed to Engineered Nanoparticles.²

 

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