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CDC’s 12th International Symposium on Biosafety

Sustainability: People, Practices, Planet

February 13-15, 2012, Crowne Plaza Ravinia, Atlanta, GA

Pre-symposium courses held February 11-12.

This symposium is for laboratory directors, animal facility managers, Biosafety Officers, Principal Investigators, industrial hygienists, senior management officials, laboratory designers, facility managers, animal care staff and professionals of related disciplines.

Go to www.eagleson.org for full details including schedule and costs.

TOP 10 Reasons to Attend the Symposium

If you think sustainability is only for environmental programs, think again! It’s a different way of thinking about high quality Biosafety programs
Discuss the latest FESAP recommendations to the Select Agent regulations with CDC’s Division of Select Agents and Toxins
Learn how to use your Risk Assessment to determine the right PPE for your labs
Are Biosafety, Sustainability, and Common Sense in labs mutually exclusive goals?
Get a sneak peak at CDC’s “Creating a Culture of Safety in the Clinical Laboratory”
Training Methodologies for Labs: How to develop engaging retraining programs for adults
Design and operational considerations for working at BSL-3 that are practical and sustainable
Examine how to set up performance metrics for your Biosafety and Biosecurity programs
Improve performance and safely reduce BSC operating costs – what factors impact safety?
Hear about CDC’s first steps in increasing sustainable animal operations

CDC’s Office of Safety, Health, and Environment serves as a leader in the field of biosafety.

CDC partners with the U.S. National Institutes of Health to publish biosafety guidelines for protecting workers and preventing exposures in biological laboratories. CDC’s Office of Safety, Health, and Environment serves as the World Health Organization’s Centre for Applied Biosafety Programmes and Training. CDC partners with renowned organizations to sponsor a biennial International Symposium on Biosafety and other occupational health and safety conferences. In addition, CDC’s Office of Safety, Health, and Environment has produced online training on laboratory biosecurity and offers other downloadable materials that may be useful to laboratorians nationally, or around the world.