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Biorisk Management – Session 1
Biorisk Management
April 2012
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Group exercise 1
Split into groups:
In your group, take 10 min to discuss and answer the
following question:
What are the risks of working in a laboratory with
biological materials?
Report your answers to the class
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Definitions
Laboratory biosafety1: containment
principles, technologies, and practices
implemented to prevent unintentional
exposure to pathogens and toxins, or
their unintentional release
Laboratory biosecurity2: protection,
control and accountability for valuable
biological materials within laboratories,
in order to prevent their unauthorized
access, loss, theft, misuse, diversion, or
intentional release
1Laboratory
biosafety manual, Third edition (WHO, 2004)
2Biorisk management Laboratory biosecurity guidance (WHO, 2006)
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Laboratory Biorisk Management
System or process to control safety and security
risks associated with the handling or storage and
disposal of biological agents and toxins in
laboratories and facilities
CWA 15793:2011
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Biorisk
The risk associated with biological materials1 in the
laboratory has a safety and a security component
Biorisk encompasses risks from the biosafety and
laboratory biosecurity perspective, associated with
biological materials
1Please
note that the definition used here is broader than the one used in the
CWA15793 document
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Group exercise 2
In your group, take 10 min to discuss and answer the
following three questions:
How do you identify these risks?
Which steps do you take to manage these risks?
How do you know that your risk management is
working, and will continue to work?
Use post-it notes to write down your answers, one
idea per note, and post them on a flip chart
Report your answers to the class
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Group exercise 3
Let's get organized:
Take the post-it notes, and place them under one of
the following columns:
Assessment
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Key Components of Biorisk Management
Biorisk Assessment
Biorisk Mitigation
Performance
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Biorisk Management: the AMP Model
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Biorisk Management =
Assessment, Mitigation, Performance
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Key Components of Biorisk Management
During the next sessions, we will always refer
back to the AMP model and individually address
the three components
Biorisk Management =
Assessment, Mitigation, Performance
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