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Workshop Discussions
Summary of questions appropriate
for discussion in the Workshop Session “Developing Policy and Communicating
Effectively”
- 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:
Are there checklists or other tools (some may be industry-, occupation-,
task- or chemical-specific) to guide individuals in making a decision
whether an identified exposure may be harmful (after collecting data
about chemicals, tasks, exposure intensities and health effects)? List
at I.D.2.a
3. From the Opportunity for Manufacturers/Distributors to take effective
actions to maintain product stewardship: (No separate questions have
been identified, yet.)
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. Are there guidelines for deciding whether skin exposure to a chemical
or mixture that is occurring at a site is likely to be causing unacceptable
local effects (may be industry, occupation, task or chemical-specific)?
List at IV.D.2.a.i …
b. Are there guidelines for deciding whether skin exposure to a chemical
or mixture that is occurring at a site is likely to be causing unacceptable
systemic effects (may be industry, occupation, task or chemical-specific)?
List at IV.D.2.b.i …
c. Might the Dermal Occupational Exposure Limit approach be as useful
in dermal exposures as the analogous approach has been in inhalation
exposures? If so, what are some of the barriers slowing its acceptance?
d. What is the relative importance of devoting resources to developing
Dermal Occupational Exposure Limits versus developing better guidelines
for managing dermal risk using other approaches?
6. 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?
7. What research is likely to have the most impact on improving the
ability of various actors to take effective actions?
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