What does a biosafety officer do?
What does a biosafety officer do?
The Biosafety Officer within the public health laboratory will ensure adequate biosafety training and practices to avoid potential hazards associated with the handling of biological materials, the spread of multi-drug resistant pathogens and threats of emerging pathogens, and acts of biological terrorism.
What group of people at UT are responsible for ensuring the proper use of biosafety precautions are in place for biological research labs?
The Institutional Biosafety Committee and EH&S are responsible for ensuring a quality Biological Safety Program for UTHealth.
What are the goals of the biological safety program at UT?
The primary objective of the UT Biosafety Program is to ensure a safe working environment for faculty, staff and students.
What is biosafety policy?
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 bsl2 lab?
BSL–2. This biosafety level covers laboratories that work with agents associated with human diseases (i.e. pathogenic or infections organisms) that pose a moderate health hazard.
Who is responsible for ensuring worker safety in the lab?
Principal Investigator/Laboratory Supervisor The Principal Investigator (PI)/Laboratory Supervisor has responsibility for the health and safety of all laboratory personnel working under their authority or within their research facilities.
What is the most common type of biosafety cabinet at UTSA?:?
Class II BSCs
Class II BSCs are the most commonly used.
Why is biosafety so important in biology related experiments?
The use of biosafety practices and principles to reduce the health-related risks associated with handling infectious agents, toxins and other biological hazards is important in a laboratory setting.
Who regulates biosafety?
HHS and USDA Select Agent Regulations (42 CFR part 73, 9 CFR part 121, 7 CFR part 331)
What is the difference between BSL-1 and BSL 2?
BSL-2 laboratories maintain the same standard microbial practices as BSL-1 labs, but also includes enhanced measures due to the potential risk of the aforementioned microbes.