Pre conference course A - Beyond safety – key professional skills throughout a career in biosafety / biosecurity - Instructors
EBSA course
Pre conference course A - Beyond safety – key professional skills throughout a career in biosafety / biosecurity
About the speakers
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Adam Stevenson
Head of Health, Safety, and Environment, Sonic Healthcare UK
Over 18 years’ experience working as a health and safety professional. Have worked in both public and private sector environments and I have a firm conviction of the importance of safety in the laboratory environment. As well as been a chartered safety professional I am also a qualified trainer, accredited auditor, and chartered manager. I have developed variousorganisational strategiesfor health and safety management which extends to implementing approaches on human factorsin biosafety laboratories. Currently my day-to-day work involves providing pragmatic biosafety advice to fast throughput diagnostic pathology laboratories.
Academic Education and Degrees:
- MSc Health and Safety Risk Management
- NEBOSH Certificate & Diploma Occupational Health and Safety
- BSc (Hons) Applied Science and Forensic Measurement
- Level 5 Diploma Operations/Departmental Manager
- Level 3 Award & Level 4 Certificate in Education and Training
- Human Factors in Safety Critical Task Analysis
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Wendy Shell
Bio Risk Officer | AGES – Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit GmbH), Mödling, Austria
Wendy Shell, CMIOSH MISTR BSc (Hons) MSc has over 12 years’ experience working as a Biosafety, Biosecurity and Bio Risk expert, as well as being a chartered health and safety professional. She has worked in this field, predominantly in the Government laboratory sector, in both the UK and in Austria. She was responsible for the development and implementation of human factors analysis in BSL3 and BSL4 in vivo and in vitro facilities as well as the incorporation of these into routine laboratory risk assessment and accident investigations. She has developed and delivered numerous biosafety and biosecurity training courses in the UK, Europe and Internationally. Currently she is the Bio Risk Officer at the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (business area Animal Health), with biorisk management responsibilities in diagnostic and research laboratories ranging from BSL2 to BSL3+ (BLS3Ag).
Academic Education and Degrees
MSc: Virology
BSc (Hons): Zoology
NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety (Distinction)