This document is intended to provide information on the outcomes and developments of the WPMN related to the safety of manufactured nanomaterials.

In the framework of the objective "Exposure Mitigation In Occupational Settings", one prioritized scope of the OECD’s project on Exposure Measurement and Exposure Mitigation (SG8) was the implementation of the project “Compare exposure mitigation guidance for laboratories”. This document is the outcome of this project covering activities and contributions of several OECD delegations.

The document was first developed by Germany within the German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA, Germany), contributed to the precedent draft version of this document. Considering this background, this document is to be seen as one element within the frame of exposure mitigation in the handling of a wide range of nanomaterials with a large variety of production and manufacturing procedures.

Based on the fact that there is a large amount of literature available, this compilation is carefully focused on different available institutional guidelines.

This document aims to provide an overview over recently published guidelines regarding the usage of nanomaterials in a laboratory scale. It is intended to perform a compilation of exposure mitigation guidelines relating to laboratories that handle nanomaterials. This document focuses on both pointing out publications of primary importance and representing a general overview of the international spectrum of publications in that topic.

This compilation is categorized by:

1) specific nanomaterial guidelines relating to laboratories (herein after referred to as category S(pecific)),

2) general nanomaterial guidelines with regards/ applicable to laboratories (category G(eneral)),

3) general laboratory guidelines with regards/applicable to nanomaterial (category L(aboratories)).