On behalf of all the sponsors planners and hosts, thank you for attending the Midwest Nano Technology Safety Workshop held at the UW campus May 20th to May 22nd, 2007.  I hope you found the workshop worthwhile and had a great time in Madison.

We had about 90 attendees. It seemed that almost everyone stayed until the final session.

All of the presentations were of a high quality. All of the interactive discussions were open and lively.  It was a meeting of people who face many of the same challenges and are looking for solutions.

One of our goals was to have a website to disseminate information from this workshop and use it to continue to the discussions that were started on the 22nd. Please continue to watch this site for the latest postings.

This workshop featured a mix of nanotech experts and practitioners from select universities and government organizations. Featured speakers included Dr. Andrew Maynard of the Woodrow Wilson Institute, Dr. Gurumurthy Ramachandran from the University of Minnesota, and Mark D. Hoover, PhD of NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center.

To view presentations and slideshows see the Agenda

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Monday morning presentations (video & slide shows)

 

Designing Safe Facilities for Nanotechnology Research John Weaver Purdue

Generation of Pyrophric Material David J. Hathcock and Kevin Fox SRNL

History of Nano Kathryn Cavender Rice EHS

How Do You Know John Wendt UW EHS

NanoWasteDisposal Bill Diesslin Iowa State EHS

Smart Science Andrew Maynard

 

Questions discussed were:

Are engineered nanomaterials handled or created on your campus? How do you know?

What health and safety precautions do you have in place for working with nanoscale materials?

What health and safety precautions do others have in place?

How do you manage and dispose of nano-waste?

What is the status of NIOSH’s nano initiative?

 

These and other questions discussed at the workshop are designed to bring together the collective knowledge and experiences of presenters and attendees.

If your organization has written nanosafety programs or elements of programs, please consider submitting these prior to the workshop so a compilation of current practices can be shared.

We are also gathering any existing health and safety protocols to discuss at the workshop. Some of them are already posted here. Please pass along any others you have.

ABIH will award 1.5 CM points to CIHs/CAIHs attending this workshop

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