Approaches to Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Nanotechnologies
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| Date: | Thu., September 23th, 2010 | |
| Venue: | Austrian Academy of Sciences 1010 Vienna, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2 Conference room ("Sitzungssaal", 1st floor) --> Map of the Area |
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| 09:00 - 10:00 | Registration |
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| 10:00 - 10:10 | Welcome and overview of the day |
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| 10:10 - 12:10 |
Acting under Uncertainty
"Managing Nanomaterials under Uncertainty - What are the Risks?"Jo Ann SHATKIN (CLF Ventures of the Conservation Law Foundation, Boston/USA)
"How to deal with uncertain Risks: The EMF Case"Peter WIEDEMANN (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe/Germany) |
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| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch
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| 13:00 - 15:00 |
Adoption of Risk Management: Occupational Health and Safety
"Risk Management of Nanomaterials at BASF - Concepts and Experiences" Karin WIENCH (Regulatory Toxicology Chemicals II, BASF, Ludwigshafen/Germany)
"Regulating Uncertainty - Performance based Benchmark Limits for Nano-Objects at the Workplace"Markus BERGES (Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (IFA), St. Augustin/Germany) |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break
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| 15:30 - 17:30 |
Adoption of Risk Management: Consumer Protection
"Nanotechnology - Dealing with Uncertainty in Consumer Protection" Astrid EPP (Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin/Germany) Adoption of Risk Management: The European Perspective
"Concepts and Approaches of ECHA in Dealing with Risks of Nanomaterials"Thomas JAKL (Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BM:LFUW); European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)) |
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| 17:30 | End of conference |
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The field of nanotechnology is characterized by lack of knowledge regarding risk assessment and risk management. Certain knowledge gaps are based on unavailable information, others like human toxicological and ecotoxicological data of nanoparticles can be mitigated by research. While the previous NanoTrust-Workshops have concentrate on the identification of knowledge gaps this workshop is focused on decision making under uncertainty.
The workshop addresses the question: How to devise risk management strategies concerning the use of nanomaterials in light of insufficient knowledge?
Further questions which are discussed during the workshop are:
- Are traditional methods in principle applicable to nanomaterials and if not, for what reasons?
- What is the current situation regarding adaptation of traditional methods to the requirements of nanomaterials?
- If the traditional methods can be modified to cover nanomaterials, what do (or will) these modifications pertain to?
- In the case of fundamental problems with traditional approaches: Is it possible to develop new methods and procedures? Have such efforts already been undertaken? In what respect will new methods differ from previous ones?
- If traditional methods are modified: What do these limitations imply for risk management (limited use)?
The workshop is going to address these questions from two sides. The first part of the workshop (morning session) is dedicated to a more general reflection on the situation described above. In the second part (afternoon sessions) we are going to present concrete examples where established risks management systems has been already partly adopted to nanotechnology.