Samantha Hall, Delphine Bard, Cyrill Bussy, Martie Van Tongeren
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Understanding the health risks associated with advanced materials will help with their safe development, use and commercialisation, which will contribute to the future economic needs of the UK and a net zero future. To undertake targeted, relevant research in this field, it is important to first identify the main advanced materials that are commercially manufactured and used in the UK including those at a commercialisation pilot stage. To achieve this, a survey was developed and distributed widely across a network of advanced materials stakeholders between June 2023 and January 2024. The survey asked respondents to identify the category, physical state and scale of advanced materials with which they are working, and the tasks and activities undertaken. Fifty two anonymous responses were received from a broad range of organisations representing all stages of the lifecycle of advanced materials. All surveyed material categories were represented in the responses. Almost 40% said that they worked with composite materials with the single category selected most frequently being fibre-reinforced composites. The most common physical state of the advanced materials handled was "powder" followed by "liquid" and the range of quantities handled per year had a median mass and volume of 1,000 kg and 10,000 L respectively. Many different materials were identified as "soon to become commercially available", with 5 of the 16 responses including graphene.
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Annals of Work Exposures and Health is dedicated to presenting advances in exposure science supporting the recognition, quantification, and control of exposures at work, and epidemiological studies on their effects on human health and well-being. A key question we apply to submission is, "Is this paper going to help readers better understand, quantify, and control conditions at work that adversely or positively affect health and well-being?"
We are interested in high quality scientific research addressing:
the quantification of work exposures, including chemical, biological, physical, biomechanical, and psychosocial, and the elements of work organization giving rise to such exposures;
the relationship between these exposures and the acute and chronic health consequences for those exposed and their families and communities;
populations at special risk of work-related exposures including women, under-represented minorities, immigrants, and other vulnerable groups such as temporary, contingent and informal sector workers;
the effectiveness of interventions addressing exposure and risk including production technologies, work process engineering, and personal protective systems;
policies and management approaches to reduce risk and improve health and well-being among workers, their families or communities;
methodologies and mechanisms that underlie the quantification and/or control of exposure and risk.
There is heavy pressure on space in the journal, and the above interests mean that we do not usually publish papers that simply report local conditions without generalizable results. We are also unlikely to publish reports on human health and well-being without information on the work exposure characteristics giving rise to the effects. We particularly welcome contributions from scientists based in, or addressing conditions in, developing economies that fall within the above scope.
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