About EBSA16 - Course C. BSL3 hands-on

Instructors:

Kathrin Summermatter, IVI, Mittelhäusern/CH
Daniel Kümin, SPIEZ LABORATORY, Spiez/CH

This two day course will introduce participants to the basics of working safely in a BSL3 laboratory. The course content was adapted from the BSL3 biosafety course of the Swiss Biosafety Curriculum. Participants will perform risk assessments, learn more about BSL3 design and engineering, get introduced to BSL3 specific PPE and use it, cover aspects of waste management and room fumigation, exercise using safety equipment under BSL3 conditions and go through different emergency scenarios amongst other things. The focus of the course lies clearly on practical exercises which limits the number of people who may attend to 8. This is a very intense course that will ask a lot from participants.

Please keep in mind that the course will take place at the Institute of Virology and Immunoprophylaxis (IVI) in Mittelhäusern (near Bern). Also note that due to the very limited amount of time afforded for this subject, course times had to be extended compared to other pre-conference courses taking place in Basel (start 7:45 am, end 5:30 pm).