About EBSA17 - Course F - Biocontainment principles - includes primary and secondary systems

ourse Instructors
Uwe Müller-Doblies, Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Surrey/UK
Felix Gmuender, Basler & Hofmann Singapore Pte Ltd/SG  CV

Biocontainment constitutes the combination of engineering controls and infrastructure that support and complement the biosafety protocols adopted in biocontainment laboratories. The World Health Organisation and the International Animal Health Office (OIE) are advocating a more risk based approach, and are moving away from established biocontainment levels based on pathogen risk groups. This changed approach will provide more flexibility, but will at the same time require more effort to justify the risk based choice of controls. The course is providing an overview of biocontainment systems and their performance as risk control systems. The aim is to equip participants for the dialogue between regulators, designers and facility owners/users.