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http://dx.doi.org/10.5757/JKVS.2010.19.6.415

Safety Management of Nanomaterials and Nanoproducts: Thinking of Ethical Principles and Guidelines for It  

Lee, Jung-Won (Philosophy Department, University of Seoul)
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Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society / v.19, no.6, 2010 , pp. 415-422 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently as the reports on toxicity of some nanomaterials and the nanoproducts containing these nanomaterials are rapidly increasing, the safety management issues about nanomaterials and nanoproducts are emerging hot. Especially safety in the workplace and that of consumers and the protection of environment, in other words safeties throughout the life-cycle of nanomaterials and products become core issues. Despite the importance of such a safety management, however, it is very difficult to construct the hard regulatory framework for safety, owing to uncertainties and potentialities of nano-risk. In this paper I will look around the ethical principles and guidelines for safety management which are preferentially required before going into the discussion on the construction of hard-regulation such as law and something like that. Under the circumstance that hard-regulations for safety management are not implementable, these principles and guidelines are expected to play a leading part in building the responsible risk-governance framework for nanomaterials and nanoproducts, and finally to become a cornerstone of the hard risk-governance framework.
Keywords
Nanomaterials; Safety management; Ethical principles; Codes of conduct; Risk governance;
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