Perform a lab risk assessment to evaluate and identify what significant hazards may be present in a laboratory area. Workers are required to be given appropriate information, instruction and training ...

This session will review and describe the basic steps of a biosafety risk assessment for clinical laboratories. The risk of exposure to infectious agents exists in every clinical laboratory.

On a sunny September morning in 2011, at a conference on the Mediterranean island of Malta, virologist Ron Fouchier made an announcement that shook the scientific world. His lab, he said, had taken ...

“A rules-based approach to chemical safety education and information is inadequate,” said Ralph Stuart during a symposium at last month’s American Chemical Society national meeting in San Diego.

The US government has underestimated the risk that livestock will be exposed to microbes escaping from a proposed high-security laboratory for studying animal diseases, an independent review panel has ...

Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area, as a result the sum of the subject research outputs may not equal the overall research outputs. Identify research insights to guide ...

KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - The Department of Homeland Security underestimates the risk that human error could allow pathogens to escape from a proposed $1 ...

Research personnel must perform a process risk assessment for all processes that utilize hazardous materials. The assessment is utilized to determine the level of risk associated with a specific ...