Nanotechnologies. Occupational risk management applied to engineered nanomaterials

Despite wide legislation basis of regulating relations in work safety and workers’ health, one third of workplaces demonstrate exceeded allowable normal levels of workers’ exposure to occupational hazards and present occupational risk for health disorders.In accordance to national legislation acts, evaluation should cover factors of occupational environment and working process, and occupational risk is understood in context of mandatory social insurance. This approach has been formed due to mostly compensatory trend in legal principles of work safety in Russia by now. Implementation of new preventive concept of work safety, based on idea of risk management for workers, necessitates development of legal acts that regulate requirements to evaluation of occupational risk and its reports with consideration of changes in Federal Law on 30 March 1999 №52 FZ “On sanitary epidemiologic well-being of population”.Those acts can include Sanitary Rules and Regulations “Evaluation of occupational risk for workers’ health”, that will contain main principles of risk assessment, requirements to risk assessment, including its characteristics which can serve as a basis of categorizing the risk levels with acceptability.To standardize requirements for informing a worker on the occupational risk, the expediency is specification of sanitary rules “Notifying a worker on occupational risk”. These rules should contain requirements: to a source of data on occupational risk level at workplace, to informational content and to ways of notifying the worker. Specification and implementation of the stated documents enable to fulfil legal requirements completely on work safety — that will provide preservation and increase of efficiency in using work resources.

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Occupational Risk Assessment of Engineered Nanomaterials: Limits, Challenges and Opportunities

Current Nanoscience ◽

10.2174/1573413712666161017114934 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 55-78 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Veruscka Leso ◽

Luca Fontana ◽

Maria Mauriello ◽

Ivo Iavicoli

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Occupational Risk ◽

Engineered Nanomaterials ◽

Challenges And Opportunities

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Proposed Data Driven Approach for Occupational Risk Management of Aircrew Fatigue

Safety and Health at Work ◽

10.1016/j.shaw.2021.06.002 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Benjamin Zhi Qiang SEAH ◽

Wee Hoe GAN ◽

Sheau Hwa WONG ◽

Mei Ann LIM ◽

Poh Hui GOH ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Occupational Risk ◽

Data Driven ◽

Data Driven Approach

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Occupational Risk Management of Engineered Nanoparticles

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene ◽

10.1080/15459620801907840 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 239-249 ◽

Cited By ~ 152

Author(s):

Paul Schulte ◽

Charles Geraci ◽

Ralph Zumwalde ◽

Mark Hoover ◽

Eileen Kuempel

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Occupational Risk ◽

Engineered Nanoparticles

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Working conditions and occupational morbidity as a basis for risk management

10.33920/pro-4-2103-06 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 36-50

Author(s):

N.A. Kostenko

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Working Conditions ◽

Russian Federation ◽

Occupational Diseases ◽

Legal Status ◽

Occupational Risk ◽

Work Related ◽

The Russian Federation

The results of studies are presented, they allow to formulate recommendations on principal problems of unification in the field of statistics of occupational diseases. There are several definitions of occupational diseases in Russia, but they are outdated and do not correspond to the concept of occupational risk recognized in the Labour Code of the Russian Federation. It is proposed to adopt the WHO concept of work-related illnesses and give it a legal status.

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