Working in Biosafety Level 3 and 4 Laboratories - A Practical Introduction (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	December 2013
Authors:	M Weidmann
Dimensions:	244 x 172 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	152
ISBN-13:	978-3-527-33467-4
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Industrial relations & safety > Occupational / industrial health & safety Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > General
LSN:	3-527-33467-X
Barcode:	9783527334674

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