Whereas biosafety aims at protecting public health and environment from accidental exposure to biological agents, biosecurity deals with the prevention of misuse through loss, theft, diversion or intentional release of pathogens, toxins and any other biological materials..
A common example of conflict arises with the transport of dangerous pathogens: in the interests of biosafety, such pathogens should be clearly labelled during transport, but from a biosecurity perspective, labelling the pathogen being shipped may increase the risk of theft or diversion..
Laboratory biosecurity refers to the protection, control of, and accountability for high-consequence biological agents and toxins, and critical relevant biological materials and information within laboratories to prevent unauthorized possession, loss, theft, misuse, diversion, and accidental or intentional release..
Biosafety provides policies and practices to prevent the unintentional or accidental release of specific biological agents and toxins, whereas biosecurity provides policies and practices to prevent the intentional or negligent release of biological materials or the acquisition of knowledge, tools, or techniques that .
Minimization of risk with regard to biosafety includes ,its assessment, management and communication.
Risk communications is a psychological science and there is a need to train people on how to communicate.
Content may be subject to copyright.. 'Biosafety' refers to safety issues caused by infectious diseases, alien species invasion, biological weapons, biotechnology abuse, loss of biological resources and laboratory safety accidents .
This standard has been based on the WHO Manual on Biosafety (2004) as well as WHO’s Guidance on Biosecurity.
These standards primarily focus on biological agents and are based on internationally acceptable best practices.
This has been used by WHO for certification of two smallpox labs in the USA and Russia.
