This session will review and describe the basic steps of a biosafety risk assessment for clinical laboratories. The risk of exposure to infectious agents exists in every clinical laboratory.

WHO has launched the Risk Assessment Tool (RAST) for Biosafety and Laboratory Biosecurity, developed to help with laboratory risk assessment. Laboratory workers are reported to be up to 1000 times ...

This course will provide information on performing a detailed biological risk assessment, defining biosafety levels, and implementation of biological containment. A copy of the completed training ...

The Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) can be of great assistance in performing and reviewing the required risk assessment. Source: Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL) ...

All personnel involved in research and teaching activities that are registered with the IBC are required to complete, at least one time, the Environmental Health & Safety Bloodborne Pathogen/Biosafety ...

For as little as 4 million dollars from a GEF Grant, during a period of 4 years, four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru) worked together to strengthen the technical and decision-making ...

The 2022 outbreak of monkeypox reignited discussions around the importance of safety and transparency in high-containment ...

It would set national standards for biosafety and biosecurity practices, streamline oversight of high-risk research among the various agencies that engage in this work, and aid agencies responsible ...