This exercise is designed to assist you and your staff in establishing or strengthening an existing laboratory biosecurity program at your institute.
At the bottom of this page you will notice three different facilities. Determine which facility fits your institution best, click on this button, and proceed with the exercise. For each facility, assistance has been provided through clickable buttons: Basic principles (a summary of the risk assessment steps and the 10 components of a biosecurity plan); Worksheet (for working through the exercise based on what you have learned in the training course); and Risk Assessment and Components (possible suggestions for the risk assessment steps and for each component of the biosecurity plan to help you work through the exercise). Remember, these are only suggestions, not recommendations.
Important Note:
Successful biosecurity programs should have full support from all levels of management, be site- specific, and be based on an understanding of facility assets and needs. Identifying which agents and infrastructure need to be protected is an individual organization’s management decision. Corresponding security measures should be applied by using a graded approach to reduce risk to an acceptable level.