Working in Biosafety Level 3 and 4 Laboratories
Overview
The first training manual for new staff working in BSL3/4 labs.
This guide is based on a course developed in 2007 by the EU COST action group 28b which serves as a standard for many courses BSL3/4 training courses worldwide. The four-day course consists of lectures and practical training with the lecturers covering all the different possibilities of organising a BSL-3/4 lab including the adaptation to the local requirements of biosafety, safety at work, and social regulations.
This book covers bio-containment, hazard criteria and categorisation of microbes, technical specifications of BSL-3 laboratories and ABSL-3 laboratories, personal protective gear, shipping BSL-3 and BSL-4 organisms according to UN and IATA regulations, efficacy of inactivation procedures, fumigation, learning from a history of lab accidents, handling samples that arrive for diagnostic testing and bridging the gap between the requirements of bio-containment and diagnostics. Course participants can not only use the book for their actual training event but it will remain a useful reference throughout their career in BSL3/4 labs.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9783527334674
- ISBN-10: 352733467X
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Publish Date: October 2013
- Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.7 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 152
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