Work areas that use infectious agents or biological materials, such as specimens or cultures, in research or clinical labs, or engage in activities involving human or animal specimens are responsible for implementing and maintaining a Biological Safety Program.
Biocontainment is the use of work practices, safety equipment, and engineering systems to prevent the accidental release of infectious agents and toxins into the environment. Biocontainment controls may include the use of biosafety cabinets, personal protective equipment, air filtration, or other mechanisms.
Conduct A Biological Risk Assessment
Before handling biohazardous agents, laboratory administrators and biosafety professionals must conduct a risk assessment.
This process is essential to accurately level biosafety and set procedures to keep laboratory workers and the public safe from biohazards at the workplace.
Although there is no standard way of carrying out a biological risk ass.
Design Facilities to Prevent The Release of Harmful Biological Agents
The facility design is essential in providing a secondary barrier that protects the outside community and the environment from accidental release of infectious agents from laboratories.
Recommended secondary barriers will depend on the purpose of each laboratory and on the recommended biosafety level for the agent being manipulated.
BSL-1 and BSL-2.
Use Appropriate Safety Equipment
When properly selected and used, engineering controls and personal protective equipment (PPE) work as primary barriers to prevent exposure to harmful biological agents.
Engineering controls are devices or equipment designed to separate people from biohazards.
They are considered the first line of defense against biohazards and include enclosed cont.
What are Biosafety Guidelines?
Marlon L.
Bayot; Faten Limaiem.
Last Update:
January 30 2023.
Biosafety guidelines are a set of policies, rules, and procedures necessary to observe by personnel working in various facilities handling microbiological agents such as:bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi, prions, and other related agents and microbiological products. What is biosafety and why is it important?
Biosafety is the use of specific practices, safety equipment and specially designed buildings to ensure that workers, the community, and the environment are protected from infectious agents and toxins and biological hazards.
