Translation of "Manuel de sécurité biologique en laboratoire de l'OMS " (French → English) :

To raise Nation-wide awareness of internationally agreed normative documents of relevance, namely the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) Workshop Agreement, ISO 15793:2011 Laboratory biorisk management, ISO 15189:2007 Medical laboratories — Particular requirements for quality and competence, ISO 15190:2003 Medical laboratories — Requirements for safety, ISO/IEC 17025:2005 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, ISO 9001:2008 Quality management systems — Requirements, as well as ISO 14001:2004 Environmental management systems — Requirements with guidance for use, involving national health ...[+++] policy makers as well as laboratory managers and staff who are encouraged to commit to a transparent and accountable culture of biosafety, biosecurity and laboratory quality systems.

The WHO biorisk reduction management programme provides guidance on how laboratories should operate through normative guidelines, workshops and training on biosafety practices, laboratory biosecurity and codes of conduct for responsible life science research.

To encourage selected individual countries or sub-region(s) to implement laboratory biorisk management (BRM) strategies, addressing biosafety and laboratory biosecurity.

To engage and connect relevant policy makers (including public health, foreign affairs, animal health, environment, education and research justice and commerce) and laboratory personnel of all levels in establishing, implementing and improving biorisk management policies and practices as well as encouraging the development of a transparent and accountable culture of biosafety and biosecurity.

To ensure the safety of the general public and those people who work with the particular pathogen, you would be required to appoint a biological safety officer who would be responsible for overseeing the work with that substance in your laboratory.

Honourable senators, no doubt you are imagining how complicated the system must be to regulate the types of controlled activities, the types of facilities such as laboratories, the types of administrative processes, the qualifications of a licence holder, the biological safety officer, the inspector, the biosafety guidelines and so on.