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SAFENANO provides industry, academia and governments with independent authoritative expertise and state-of-the-art facilities to enable effective risk management.
Managing risk is part of everyday life and particularly crucial to businesses working at the cutting edge with novel materials and processes.
We can help you address the uncertainties and potential risks presented by nanotechnology, nanomaterials and nano-enabled products, to ensure the success and sustainability of using nanotechnology in your business.
Risk Assessment
Risk assessment is a pragmatic and systematic process to identify and manage potential health and safety hazards. The evaluation of risk should be made using the best available information, so that appropriate control strategies can be developed and implemented to eliminate or reduce the risk.
Nanomaterial Risk Assessment
Exposure Monitoring
With increasing concern and uncertainty regarding worker exposure to nanomaterials, an understanding of potential releases and their control is necessary to make informed risk assessments.
Workplace Exposure Monitoring
Lab Services
We offer specialist laboratory services to support the identification and assessment of nanomaterials, including particle aerosolisation and characterisation, simulation of releases from common handling processes, dustiness testing, biodurability assessment, and morphology & elemental analysis by electron microscopy.
Hazard Assessment
Our knowledge and expertise of particle and fibre toxicology can provide the hazard information you need to safely develop and market materials and nanotechnology-enabled products, meeting regulatory requirements.
Hazard Assessment & Toxicology
Research
Emerging technologies and cutting edge science provide opportunities but also carry risk. The full benefits of key technological advances can only be realised with full consideration of the potential risks to workers, consumers, and the environment.
Our Research
