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  • Working safely with carbon nanotubes

    So you want to make or use carbon nanotubes, but you are worried about handling then safely.  What do you do?  The good news is that the UK Health and Safety Executive has just published an information sheet that addresses just this question.  Risk management of carbon nanotubes is (according to the blurb) “specifically about the ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on March 17, 2009
  • Nanotechnology risk research, ten years on

    From 2020science: Ten years ago to the month, one of the first research reports detailing the challenges of ensuring the safe use of engineered nanomaterials was delivered to the UK Health and Safety Executive.  The report wasn’t for general release, and you’ll be hard pressed to find a copy of it in the public domain.  But as a ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by bryony@safenano.org on March 3, 2009