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Workshop Discussions
Summary of questions appropriate
for discussion in the Workshop Session“Controlling Exposure and Prevention”
- 1. Is this outline of Opportunities
for Effective Action a useful guide for the discussion in this Workshop
Session? What are some of the most significant ways in which it can
be improved?
2. From the Opportunity for Effective Action by Individuals/Employers/Supervisors/Insurers/Site
Owners maintaining a safe and healthful site:
a. Are there sources of general information to orient individuals
to the range of control options and the hierarchy of controls? List
at I.E.2.a.i …
b. Are there lists of tools appropriate for non-experts to identify
exposure sources, for example, to identify contamination of environmental
surfaces using colorimetric indicators? List at I.E.2.b.i …
c. Are there sources of information on “best practices” in engineering
controls? List at I.E.2.c.i …
d. Are there guidelines for recommending personal protective equipment?
List at I.E.2.d.i …
e. Are there guidelines for maintaining reusable personal protective
equipment, including decontamination? List at I.E.2.e.i …
f. Are there guidelines for recommending methods to decontaminate
skin? List at I.E.2.f.i …
3. From the Opportunity for Manufacturers/Distributors to take effective
actions to maintain product stewardship:
Are there checklists or other tools to guide identification of all chemicals,
contaminants and reaction products in a manufactured product (may be
industry or process-specific)? List at II.A.2.a.i …
4. From the Opportunity for Clinicians to take effective action to evaluate
and promote the health of individuals or populations: (No separate questions
have been identified, yet.)
5. From the Opportunity for National or International Bodies to take
effective action by outlining technical requirements or recommendations:
a. Substitution – Are there guidelines for deciding whether less hazardous
substitute materials are available? List at IV.E.2.a.i …
b. Engineering Controls – Are there guidelines to aid in designing
and evaluating engineering controls? List at IV.E.2.b.i …
c. Administrative Controls – Are there guidelines for designing, evaluating
and implementing administrative controls? List at IV.E.2.c.i …
d. Personal Protective Equipment – Are there guidelines for implementing
an effective PPE program? List at IV.E.2.d.i …
e. Are the current exposure monitoring methods so cumbersome and expensive
to use and so difficult to interpret that routine dermal exposure
measurements should not be customarily recommended as part of an exposure
control program?
f. Are multi-coated protective gloves the best opportunity for significant
near-term improvements in controlling dermal exposures in most situations?
Is more research needed? If so, what type of research will have the
most impact?
g. Is contamination of the inside of protective gloves, especially
during donning and doffing, often even more significant that glove
permeation in leading to dermal exposure? Is more research needed?
If so, what type of research will have the most impact?
6. What types of education and training should each of the types of
potential actors have in order to be reasonably competent in carrying
out their Opportunity for Effective Action?
7. Within the scope of this Workshop Session, what is the relative importance
of:
a. doing a better job of applying existing data using existing decision-making
procedures,
b. obtaining new data using accepted data-gathering protocols,
c. developing better data-gathering protocols and
d. developing better decision-making procedures - in order to improve the
outputs from each step of an Opportunity for Effective Action?
8. What research is likely to have the most impact on improving the
ability of various actors to take effective actions?
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