NANOTECHNOLOGY

Safety and Health Organizations and Expert Groups

• American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)
  Participating on working group activities and information exchange and dissemination for nanoparticle characterization and control
• American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH)
• American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
• Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences
  Modifying software for use in lung dosimetry modeling
• Health Physics Society (HPS)
  Participating in working group activities and information exchange and dissemination for nanoparticle characterization and control
• Collaborating on the respirator filter media work being conducted at the University of Minnesota to assess the filtration efficiency against nanoparticles
• International Alliance for Nanotoxicology Harmonization (IAHN)
  Establishing protocols for reproducible toxicological testing of nanomaterials in both cell cultures and animals
• The initiative on Minimum Information Needed for Characterization of Nanomaterials (MINChar)
  Encouraging adoption of a minimum set of physical and chemical material characterization parameters in nanotoxicology studies
• Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM), Edinburgh, Scotland
  Revising rat lung dosimetry models to account for particle size-specific clearance and retention.
• National Safety Council (NSC)

Federal and Other Government Agencies

• Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
• Department of Energy (DOE)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Institut de Recherche Robert-Sauve en Sante et en Securite du Travail (IRSST)
  Exchanging information on approaches to safe nanotechnology
• International Labour Organization (ILO)
  Developing information on nanotechnology for a revised edition of the Encylopaedia of Occupaitonal Health and Safety
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
  Developing international standards for terminology, characterization, and safety practices for nanotechnology
• Karolinska Institute
  Evaluating the effect of nanomaterials on immune cells
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
  Evaluating the toxicity of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs)
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/ National Institute of Health and the Department of Defense on nanotoxicology
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  Evaluating the toxicity of nanoparticles and developing nanoscale reference materials
• Through active participation in NNI's strategic and budget planning processes, and coordination of research into occupational safety and health of nanotechnology with other government agencies
• National Toxicology Program
  Participating in the conduct of field assessments and toxicological research
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  Evaluating the pulmonary toxicity of nanoparticles
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
  Evaluating the effectiveness of workplace control measures
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
  Collaborating on exposure measurement and exposure mitigation
• U.S. Air Force
• U.S. Army
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
  Collaborating with Forest Products Laboratory on exposure assessment and toxicology of nanocellulose
• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  Exchanging information on emerging application and health and safety issues for nanotechnology in the nuclear arena
• World Health Organization (WHO)

Nanotechnology Industries

• Altair Nano
  Understanding and improving the control of ultrafine metal oxides and engineered nanomaterials
• DuPont and the Nanoparticle Occupational Safety and Health industry consortium
  On issues related to the measurement of nanoparticles and the efficiency of filtration materials for engineered nanoparticles
• IBM
  Evaluating the bioactivity of silicon nanowires
• Luna Nano Works
  Understanding and improving the control of fullerenes and other engineered nanoparticles
• Mitsui Co. Inc.
  Evaluating the bioactivity of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs).
• NanoMech LLC
  Collaborating on a proposed EPA phase I SBIR project related to containment of airborne nanoparticles.
• QD Vision
  Understanding and improving the control of quantum dots.

• The Ohio State University
  Evaluating workplaces, controls, and practices in the nanocomposites industry
• University of Cincinnati
  Translating nanotechnology research into occupational and environmental health and safety activities
• University of Dayton Research Institute
  Understanding and improving the control of carbon nanotubes
• University of Iowa
  Measuring airborne concentrations of ultrafine particles
• University of Nevada at Reno (with Altair Nano)
  Understanding and improving the control of ultrafine metal oxides and engineered nanomaterials
• University of Massachusetts at Lowell
  Collaborating on the development of good practices for handling nanomaterials in research laboratories and developing exposure assessment methods
• University of Minnesota
  Measuring airborne concentrations of ultrafine particles
• University of Montana
  Evaluating the toxicity of nanowires
• University of Montreal
  Assessing and characterizing nanoparticles in the workplace
• University of Pittsburgh
  Evaluating the toxicity of nanomaterials
• University of Rochester
  Measuring the ability of nanoparticles to generate radical species
• University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Developing exposure assessment strategies and characterizing nanoparticles in friction stir welding and micromachining
• Virginia Tech University
  Understanding and improving the control of fullerenes and other engineered nanoparticles
• West Virginia University Nanotechnology Center
  Evaluating the toxicity of metal oxide nanowires
• West Virginia University Medical School
  Evaluating the effects of pulmonary exposure to nanoparticles, including the influence of exposure to titanium dioxide (TiO2) on systemic microvascular function