February 15, 2024

Guidance and Publications

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and its partners have a wide variety of nanotechnology health and safety resources for scientists, workers and other interested parties.

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NIOSH guidance

NIOSH publications

Cover of NIOSH Publication 2024-103 -Approaches to safe 3D printing: a guide for markerspace users, schools, libraries, and small businesses. Oicture of a man and women working on a computer. — This report summarizes NIOSH’s findings and recommendations for controls to protect workers using 3D printers.

Keep Reading: Approaches to Safe 3D Printing: a Guide for Markerspace Users, Schools, Libraries, and Small Businesses

cover of NIOSH publication How to Reduce Exposures When 3D Printing with Plastic Filament — How to reduce or avoid exposures when printing by: Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM™), Fused Layer Modelling (FLM)

Keep Reading: How to Reduce Exposures When 3D Printing with Plastic Filament

Cover of NIOSH Publication 2022-153 "Technical Report: Occupational Exposure Sampling of Engineered Nanomaterials" — This document provides a summary of the different nanomaterial sampling techniques.

Keep Reading: Technical Report: Occupational Exposure Sampling for Engineered Nanomaterials

Cover of NIOSH Publication "Approaches to Safe Nanotechnology: Managing the Health and Safety Concerns Associated with Engineered Nanomaterials" — This document describes how to manage the health and safety concerns associated with engineered nanomaterials.

Keep Reading: Approaches to Safe Nanotechnology: Managing the Health and Safety Concerns Associated with Engineered Nanomaterials

Cover of NIOSH Publication "Building a Safety Program to Protect the Nanotechnology Workforce: A Guide for Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises" — This document identifies and describes strategies for the engineering control program for the nanotechnology workforce.

Keep Reading: Building a Safety Program to Protect the Nanotechnology Workforce: A Guide for Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises

Cover of NIOSH Current Strategies for Engineering Controls in Nanomaterial Production and Downstream Handling Processes — Current Strategies for Engineering Controls in Nanomaterial Production and Downstream Handling Processes

Keep Reading: Current Strategies for Engineering Controls in Nanomaterial Production and Downstream Handling Processes

Cover for NIOSH Publication 2008-112 "Safe Nanotechnology in the Workplace" — This brochure addresses the how nanoparticles are hazardous to workers and how to measure and control exposures.

Keep Reading: Safe Nanotechnology in the Workplace

NIOSH posters

This poster from the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center cites health and safety questions with different control options and information to reduce exposure to potential hazards when 3D printing with Filaments. — A poster designed to guide workers on how to prevent exposures when 3D Printing with Filaments.

Keep Reading: 3D Printing with Filaments: Health and Safety Questions to Ask

This poster from the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center cites health and safety questions with different control options and information to reduce exposure to potential hazards when 3D printing with Metal Powders — A poster designed to guide workers on how to prevent exposures when 3D Printing with Metal Powders.

Keep Reading: 3D Printing with Metal Powders: Health and Safety Questions to Ask

A poster designed to guide workers on how to prevent exposures to nanomaterials — A poster designed to guide workers on how to prevent exposures to nanomaterials.

Keep Reading: Controlling Health Hazards When Working with Nanomaterials: Questions to Ask Before You Start

NIOSH workplace design solutions

Cover of NIOSH Publication 2018-122 "Workplace Design Solutions: Protecting Workers during Intermediate and Downstream Processing of Nanomaterials" — This document describes local exhaust ventilation, enclosures around the emission points, and down flow booths for larger scale processes.

Keep Reading: Workplace Design Solutions: Protecting Workers during Intermediate and Downstream Processing of Nanomaterials

Cover of NIOSH Publication 2018-121 "Workplace Design Solutions: Protecting Workers during the Handling of Nanomaterials" — This document describes chemical fume hoods, nanomaterial handling enclosures, biological safety cabinets, and glove boxes.

Keep Reading: Workplace Design Solutions: Protecting Workers during the Handling of Nanomaterials

Cover of NIOSH Publication 2018-120 "Workplace Design Solutions: Protecting Workers during Nanomaterial Reactor Operations" — This document describes how to protect workers during nanomaterial reactor operations.

Keep Reading: Workplace Design Solutions: Protecting Workers during Nanomaterial Reactor Operations

NIOSH Current Intelligence Bulletins

Cover of NIOSH Publication 2021-112 "Health Effects of Occupational Exposure to Silver Nanomaterials" — NIOSH Current Intelligence Bulletin 70

Keep Reading: Health Effects of Occupational Exposure to Silver Nanomaterials

Cover of NIOSH Current Intelligence Bulletin 65: Occupational Exposure to Carbon Nanotubes and Nanofibers — NIOSH Current Intelligence Bulletin 65

Keep Reading: Current Intelligence Bulletin 65: Occupational Exposure to Carbon Nanotubes and Nanofibers

Cover of NIOSH Current Intelligence Bulletin 63: Occupational Exposure to Titanium Dioxide — Current Intelligence Bulletin 63

Keep Reading: Current Intelligence Bulletin 63: Occupational Exposure to Titanium Dioxide

Cover of NIOSH Current Intelligence Bulletin 60: Interim Guidance for Medical Screening and Hazard Surveillance for Workers Potentially Exposed to Engineered Nanoparticles — NIOSH Current Intelligence Bulletin 60

Keep Reading: Current Intelligence Bulletin 60: Interim Guidance for Medical Screening and Hazard Surveillance for Workers Potentially Exposed to Engineered Nanomaterials

Program info

The following NIOSH publications provide useful information about the NIOSH nanotechnology program.

NIOSH Nanotechnology Research and Guidance Strategic Plan, 2018-2025

Cover for NIOSH Publication "Continuing to Protect the Nanotechnology Workforce: NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Plan for 2018-2025" — Continuing to Protect the Nanotechnology Workforce: NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Plan for 2018-2025

Keep Reading: Continuing to Protect the Nanotechnology Workforce: NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Plan for 2018-2025

Cover of NIOSH Publication "Protecting the Nanotechnology Workforce - NIOSH Nanotechnology Research and Guidance Strategic Plan 2013-2016" — Protecting the Nanotechnology Workforce - NIOSH Nanotechnology Research and Guidance Strategic Plan 2013-2016

Keep Reading: Protecting the Nanotechnology Workforce - NIOSH Nanotechnology Research and Guidance Strategic Plan 2013-2016

Cover of NIOSH Publication "Filling the Knowledge Gaps for Safe Nanotechnology in the Workplace" — A Progress Report from the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center, 2004–2011

Keep Reading: Filling the Knowledge Gaps for Safe Nanotechnology in the Workplace A Progress Report from the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center, 2004–2011

Cover of NIOSH Publication "Strategic Plan for NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Guidance" — The strategic plan for the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research and Guidance - Filling the Knowledge Gaps

Keep Reading: Strategic Plan for NIOSH Nanotechnology Research and Guidance - Filling the Knowledge Gaps

Cover of NIOSH Publication "Progress Toward Safe Nanotechnology in the Workplace: A Report from the Nanotechnology Research Center, Project Updates for 2007 and 2008" — This is a report of the progress of the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center (NTRC) from 2007 and 2008

Keep Reading: Progress Toward Safe Nanotechnology in the Workplace - A Report from the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center

Cover of NIOSH Publication "Progress Toward Safe Nanotechnology in the Workplace: A Report from the Nanotechnology Research Center" — This is a report of the progress of the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center (NTRC) from its inception in 2004 through 2006.

A report from the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center

Keep Reading: Progress Toward Safe Nanotechnology in the Workplace - A Report from the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center

Postcards & stickers

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3D Printing Postcard

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3D Circle QR Code 1

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3D Circle QR Code 2

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Other resources

NIOSH/NIOSH funded

NIOSHTIC-2 is a searchable bibliographic database. It contains occupational safety and health publications, documents, grant reports, and journal articles supported in whole or in part by NIOSH. View search results for Nanotechnology

Partners

National Nanotechnology Initiative

NNI 2011 Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Strategy

Occupational Safety and Health Adminstration

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Nanotechnology Programs at FDA

U.S Accountability Office

Nanomanufacturing: Emergence and Implications for U.S. Competitiveness, the Environment, and Human Health

World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO Guidelines on Protecting Workers from Potential Risks of Manufactured Nanomaterials

Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) Edinburgh, Scotland

February 15, 2024

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