ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROJECT CLUSTER MEETING Occupational Health and Safety for AM Fundació CIM C/Llorens i Artigas, 12 Parc Tecnològic de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain 2 May 2016 Prof J du Plessis & Prof DJ de Beer North West University South Africa

Occupational Health and Safety for AM (OHS for AM) Objective: To create value and/or provide social benefits. Background: To enable South African industry to develop world-class products through optimized design methodologies.

OHS for AM : Exploitable Results ER 1 Toolkit: Information and training for AM employers and employees ER2 Toolkit: Physico-chemical characterization of powders and methodology for exposure assessment

OHS for AM : Exploitable Result 1 Description of result and the resulting innovation Compliance with Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) legislation with specific focus on risk assessment, health effects caused by exposure, monitoring of exposure, basic principles of control of exposure (mitigating exposure), personal protective equipment, good housekeeping and safe working procedures, and information and training to be provided to employees. Compliance with OH&S legislation with specific focus on the duty of the employee, information and training (sources of exposure, health risk of exposure, control measures in place, precautions taken by employees for self-protection, medical surveillance and monitoring of exposure, necessity, correct use and maintenance of personal protective equipment, good housekeeping and personal hygiene, and safe working procedures. In the OH field such “products” are either books, CD-toolkits (also webinars – online training sessions) and as ISO standards. Similar “products” as intended for AM are not available. Potential customers Any employer involved in AM (written here with powders in mind, but could be further exploited to polymer-ceramics). Indirectly the AM employee may also be considered a customer. OH&S professionals involved in AM may also be seen as potential customers. Occupational hygiene research activities will generate new knowledge, but per se is considered as rendering a service of social significance (i.e. eventual protection of worker health) with an indirect benefit contributing to cost saving/increased revenue (healthy worker – less medical expenses, absenteeism etc.). Customer Benefits Compliance with OH&S legislation with consequential promotion of worker health.

OHS for AM : Exploitable Result 1 Technological Readiness Level: TRL 1 Milestones in the TRL progression up to TRL9: TRL 3: Execution and results of the current research projects (next 18 months) TRL 5-9: Toolkit development and validation (6 months) Main technical challenges in this result : Execution of the current research projects (next 18 months) will shed more light on “specific” details, without these projects key shortcomings and focus points in the above mentioned toolkits cannot be identified Time to market:. Full implementation:07/2018 IPRs: Possible copyright, know-how, in-house skills, in parallel with licensing opportunities

OHS for AM : Exploitable Result 2 Description of result and the resulting innovation Recommendation of analyses necessary to characterize the physical characteristics (size) and chemical composition of AM powders. Guidance (standardized methodology) documents for the assessment of exposure to AM-powders with consideration of area (work environment sampling) and personal (employee/worker) sampling as well as biological monitoring. Emphasis on when, where, how many samples (Bayesian statistics), what samples, interpretation of results and compliance with OH&S legislation. In the OH field such “products” are either books, CD-toolkits (also webinars – online training sessions) and as ISO standards. Similar “products” as intended for AM are not available. Potential customers Any employer involved in AM (written here with powders in mind, but could be further exploited to polymer- ceramics). OH&S professionals involved in AM may also be seen as potential customers. Occupational hygiene research activities will generate new knowledge, but per se is considered as rendering a service of social significance (i.e. eventual protection of worker health) with an indirect benefit contributing to cost saving/increased revenue (healthy worker – less medical expenses, absenteeism etc.). Customer Benefits Compliance with OH&S legislation with consequential promotion of worker health.

OHS for AM : Exploitable Result 2 Technological Readiness Level : TRL 3 Milestones in the TRL progression up to TRL9: TRL 5: Execution and results of the current research projects (next 18 months) TRL 5-9: Toolkit development and validation (6 months) Main technical challenges in this result: Execution of the current research projects (next 18 months) will shed more light on “specific” details, without these projects key shortcomings and focus points in the above mentioned toolkits cannot be identified. Time to market:. Full implementation:07/2018 IPRs: Possible copyright, know-how, in-house skills, in parallel with licensing opportunities

Expressions of Interest: OHS for AM All AM activities, (Metal Polymer, Sand, cermaics, etc) M2-US-EXOVA M5-SA-FORMING M6-SA-MEDAERO M13-EU-AATID PB2-SA-POLYAM PB3-EU-RAPIDOS GT7-MX-CIATEQ GT8-MX-UASLP GT10-EU-CAXMAN GT11-EU-FOFAM GT13-EU-CASSAMOBILE