New IOSH-accredited course promotes safe working with nanomaterials

IOSH has funded and given accreditation to a new training course encouraging safe laboratory work with nanomaterials. The course, developed by IOM Singapore, will be taught for the first time in August and aims to give laboratory staff, students and safety and health professionals a good understanding of safe and healthy working in labs where nanomaterials are used or produced. Mary Ogungbeje, Research and Development Adviser at IOSH, gives her thoughts