Biosafety means the safe work practices and proper use of personal protective equipment when handling biohazardous materials.
Never Eat, Drink, or Smoke in a Biohazardous Lab.
In a biohazard lab, just because a container or piece of equipment is not labeled, does not mean that it is clean.
Always ask .
Laboratory biosafety practices are based on the principle of containment of biological agents to prevent exposure to laboratory workers and the outside environment.
Primary containment protects the laboratory workers and the immediate laboratory environment from exposure to biological agents..
There are four biosafety levels.
Each level has specific controls for containment of microbes and biological agents.
The primary risks that determine levels of containment are infectivity, severity of disease, transmissibility, and the nature of the work conducted..
