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Introduction to Biosafety Training

Description:

The course addresses awareness of biohazards, risk assessment, and key risk management principles including safe work practices, personal protective equipment (PPE), engineering controls, and emergency response.

  • Biosafety and biosecurity
  • Compliance requirements: NIH, CDC, and USDA guidelines for working with biological materials. (Incident reporting, Gain of Function, DURC, Import/export permit, etc.)
  • Biological risk assessment
  • Laboratory safety containment levels and standard microbiological practices
  • Primary barrier/laboratory safety equipment and facility requirement
  • Disinfection and decontamination
  • Sharps Safety
  • Biowaste handling and disposal.
  • Emergency responses: Spill control, exposure responses

This course is required for researchers who work with any biological materials such as human and animal materials, infectious agents, viral vectors, recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid molecules, and biological toxins, but not limited. The biosafety training must be repeated every three years.

Training frequency and location: Second Thursday of every month via Zoom

  • July 13th, Thursday, 2023, 11 am – 12 pm
  • Aug 10th, Thursday, 2023, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • Aug 22nd, Tuesday, 2023, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  • Sept 14th, Thursday, 2023, 11 am -12 pm
  • Sept 26th, Tuesday, 2023, 3:30 pm -4:30 pm
  • Oct 12th, Thursday,  2023, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • Oct 24th, Tuesday, 2023, 3:30 pm -4:30 pm
  • Nov 9th, Thursday, 2023, 11 am- 12 pm
  • Nov 21st, Tuesday, 2023, 3:30 pm -4:30 pm
  • Dec 12th, Tuesday, 2023, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  • Jan 11th, Thursday, 2024, 11:00 am-12:00 pm
  • Feb 6th, Tuesday, 2024, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  • Mar14th, Thursday 2024, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
  • Apr 9th, Tuesday, 2024, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  • May, 9th, Thursday, 2024, 11:00 am-12:00 pm

 Duration: 1 hour

 Prerequisites:

  • Up-to-date Laboratory Safety training (online)
  • Up-to-date Introduction on Receiving Hazardous Materials training (online)
  • Optional, Autoclave training (online)
  • Optional, Biosafety Cabinet training (online)

Register to an upcoming training

Complete the following steps to register.

  1. Go to http://uic.bioraft.com
  2. Login in with your University NetID and Password
  3. Select Training
  4. Select Course Directory
  5. Select Introduction to Biosafety Training (Classroom)
  6. Click on the Sessions tab
  7. Select the date you will attend