To ensure that health-related issues are responsibly addressed for the workplace and 3M products:
- 3M employs medical experts in occupational medicine, industrial hygiene, health science physics and toxicology.
- These experts support 3M's Life Cycle Management effort through health risk analysis during a product's development and throughout its life cycle.
- They monitor scientific and medical developments and offer guidance and education to help 3M and our customers understand and manage any risks associated with 3M products.
- 3M tests most product-related items at independent labs.
- An in-house, strategic toxicology lab helps researchers obtain risk-related information on new materials early in the development process as part of Life Cycle Management.
- 3M medical and industrial hygiene experts also help us create a safer workplace and comply with government regulations.
- Workplace exposures are controlled through hazard communications to employees, noise exposure controls, personal protective equipment, ventilation, and chemical-exposure monitoring and modeling.
