Standard Guide for Workforce Education in Nanotechnology Health and Safety

Importancia y uso:

5.1 This guide is to provide, at the undergraduate college level, a basic educational structure in the health and safety aspects of nanotechnology to organizations developing or carrying out education programs for the nanotechnology workforce. This guide helps to describe the minimum knowledge base for anyone involved in nanomanufacturing or nanomaterials research.

5.2 The basic education should prepare an individual for varied roles in the nanotechnology workplace. The material in this guide may require a post-secondary two-year science or technology background to be understood sufficiently. Depth on the topics should be sufficient to transfer between various applications of nanotechnology such as nanomaterial fabrication, nanomaterial characterization, nanolithography, and patterning.

5.3 Nanoscale materials might present unique health and environmental hazards due to their unique properties. The hazards, if any, presented by nanomaterials can be very different from those presented by bulk/macroscopic materials.

5.4 Because nanotechnology is a rapidly developing field, the individual educated in nanotechnology needs to be cognizant of changing and evolving safety procedures and practices. Individuals should be aware of how to keep current on the technology, and have a base education that enables synthesis of emerging safety procedures and practices.

5.5 Workers may transition in their roles in the workplace. Participants in such education will have a broad understanding of the health and safety aspects associated with working in a manufacturing or research setting, thus increasing their marketability for jobs within as well as beyond the nanotechnology field.

5.6 This guide is intended to be one in a series of standards developed for workforce education in various aspects of nanotechnology. It will assist in providing an organization a basic structure for developing a program applicable to many areas in nanotechnology, thus providing dynamic and evolving workforce education.

Subcomité:

E56.07

Referida por:

E3034-20, E3089-22, E3071-22, E3059-22, E3001-20

Volúmen:

14.02

Número ICS:

03.180 (Education), 07.120 (Nanotechnologies)

Palabras clave:

education; health; nano; nanomaterial; nanoparticle; nanotechnology; safety;