Sustainable Development of Nanotechnologies: Risks and Opportunities for Occupational Safety and Health
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health, Well-Being and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 3806
Special Issue Editors
Interests: occupational health and safety (OHS); safety engineering; risk assessment; risk management; nanotechnology; nanomaterials; ultrafine particles; exposure measurement; industrial hygiene; Industry 4.0; responsible innovation; prevention-through-design; systematic review; indoor air quality; COVID-19
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: nanotechnology; engineered nanomaterials; nanocomposites; material characterization; graphene; graphene nanoplatelets; nanostructured strain sensors; piezoresistive sensors; safety engineering; exposure measurement; prevention-through-design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last twenty years, nanotechnology has made a widespread impact on our society in different sectors: from energy to medicine, from automotive to construction, from agriculture and food to personal care and environment.
The growing development, production, and use of nanoscale materials calls for a responsible and sustainable approach to evaluate and prevent health and safety concerns related to such promising new technologies.
Workers are the first to be exposed in the whole life cycle of nanomaterials and key occupational issues are related to investigate the potential adverse health effects and the related strategies for preventing or mitigate the exposure.
Simultaneously, the novel properties of nanoscale materials may offer also new opportunities through the development of new devices and technologies to improve the protection of workers exposed to other already known risk factors (e.g., physical, biological, and ergonomic).
With this in mind, this Special Issue aims to explore research efforts in the field of occupational safety and health to increase the sustainability of nanotechnology processes and the related opportunities, including, but not limited to:
- Prevention-through-Design approaches for exposure in nanotechnology workplaces
- Risk assessment and management including cost-effectiveness analysis
- Risk communication and training tools for responsible manufacturing and use of nanomaterials
- New methodologies and devices to quantify and mitigate the workers’ exposure to nanomaterials
- Innovative nanotechnologies for collective and personal protection of workers
- Nano-enabled approaches to mitigate physical, biological, ergonomic and other risk factors at work
Dr. Fabio Boccuni
Dr. Irene Bellagamba
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanotechnology
- nanomaterials
- occupational safety and health
- exposure
- responsible development
- risks and benefits
- sustainability
