Lab | Biorisk management

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Simple but powerful model managing biorisks

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Assessment
Mitigation
Performance

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containment principles, technologies, and practices implemented to prevent unintentional exposure to pathogens and toxins, or their unintentional release.

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Laboratory Biosafety

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protection, control and accountability for valuable biological materials within laboratories, in order to prevent their unauthorized access, loss, theft, misuse, diversion or intentional release.

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Laboratory Biosecurity

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What is a biorisk (formula)

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Biorisk= Biosafety + Biosecurity

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Effective management of risks posed by working with infectious agents and toxins in the laboratory

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Biorisk Management

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includes the full spectrum of safety and security measures for laboratories, from standard operating procedures to physical measures to individual practices in the laboratory.

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Biorisk Management

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Key Components of Biorisk Management

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Biorisk Assessment
Biorisk Mitigation
Performance

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Process of identifying the hazards and
evaluating the risks associated with biological agents and toxins, taking into account the adequacy of any existing controls, and deciding whether or not the risks are acceptable.

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Biorisk Assessment

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Actions and control measures that are put into place to reduce or eliminate the risks associated with biological agents and toxins

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Biorisk Mitigation

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The implementation of the entire biorisk management system, including evaluating and ensuring that the system is working the way it was designed

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Performance

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A set of interrelated elements used to establish policy and objectives and to achieve those objectives.

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Management System

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IMPORTANT ELEMENTS OF A MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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Top Management Commitment
Documentation and Document Control
Teamwork and Communication
Planning, Establishing Goals and Objectives
Training and Staff Awareness

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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

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Laboratory Biorisk Management

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Comprehensive framework for a biosafety and biosecurity (biorisk) program

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CWA 15793

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Laboratory Biorisk Management

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CWA 15793

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Based on a management systems approach Designed

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CWA 15793

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Designed for all laboratories that handle biological materials

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CWA 15793

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Derived from the current WHO Biosafety and Biosecurity Guidelines

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International Approach

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The international approach is Consistent with other International standards such as

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ISO 9001
ISO 14001
OSHAS18001

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Major Sections of the CWA 15793

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4.1 general requirements
4.2 Policy
4.3 Planning
4.4 Implementation and Operation
4.5Checking and Corrective Action
4.6 Review

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Assessment sub points

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Hazard Identification
Risk assessment

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Mitigation

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Good microbiological Technique
Waste Management
Physical Security

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Performance

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Performance measurement and analysis of data
Management of review

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The process for the implement of biorisk management system

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Biorisk Management

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likelihood of an undesirable event happening, that involves a specific hazard or threat and has consequences

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Risk

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Formula for Risk

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Risk= f (likelihood, consequences)

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a function of both the Likelihood of something happening and Consequences of that occurrence

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Risk

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assigns values for likelihood and consequence, which allows us to represent the risk of a particular adverse event on a graph.

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Risk Assessment

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concerned with intentional adverse events involving laboratory disease agents and/or their products.

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Biosecurity risk assessment

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analytical procedure designed to characterize security risks in a laboratory.

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biosecurity risk assessment

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Biosecurity risk assessment considerations

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Asset, adversary, vulnerability

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Refers to the process of identifying all the factors that should be considered in a biosecurity risk assessment.

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Risk characterization

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process of determining the likelihood and consequences of a particular risk and is associated with a particular adverse event.

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Risk characterization

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process of gathering information about the biological agents and toxins that could potentially be targeted by notional adversaries.

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Asset characterization

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Biological agents & toxins are referred to as what?

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Assets

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Determining the ease or difficulty of malicious use (likelihood) should involve assessing the following:

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The difficulty of acquiring the agent The difficulty of processing the agent into a suitable quantity in a suitable form The difficulty of disseminating the agent to cause harm

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Difficulties of malicious use

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Difficulty acquiring the agent Difficulty processing the agent into a suitable quantity in a suitable form difficulty of disseminating the agent to cause harm

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Assessing potential consequences of the malicious us of a particular agent or toxin

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Physical impact of an attack on a population Impact of an attack on the economy Impact of changea in public perception Impact on facility operations

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The process of determining specific attributes of potential adversaries that enable them to pose a threat to a biological agent or toxin.

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ADVERSARY CHARACTERIZATION

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characteristics of potential adversaries that could help determine the risk they pose

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Motive Means Opportunity

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a person who has authorized access to a facility, its units (such as laboratories), and its assets.

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Insider

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biosecurity system’s individual components.

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Physical Security Personnel Management Material Control and Accountability Transport Security Information Security

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ability trust the accuracy of differences between assessments, due to similarities in their bases, assumptions, procedures and protocols.

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Comparability

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ability to conduct the same process in the same way for the same hazard or threat and situation over a period of time, or for different hazards, threats, and situations at the same time.

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Repeatability

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crucial intermediary step between Risk Characterization and taking active steps towards mitigating risk

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Risk evaluation

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process of determining subjectively, whether a risk is high or low, and whether it’s acceptable or not.

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Risk evaluation

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evaluation of risk is highly related to the concept of what

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Risk acceptance

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Curves on the graph that show the different levels of risk, from Very Low to Very High.

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Isoquants

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Curves on the graph that show the different levels of risk, from Very Low to Very High.

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Isoquants

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The essence of risk evaluation

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precise locations of isoquants on the graph are in fact arbitrary

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Laboratory Biorisk management / Borisk controls

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Administrative Controls Operational controls Engineering controls Personal protective equipment

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Laboratory Borisk management system

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Biohazard identification Biorisk assessment Biorisk management Biorisk communication