BIOSAFETY AND ITS IMPORTANCE

 

Biosafety is an application that is when doing laboratory work reduces the risk of exposure to toxic agent and the harmful material we are dealing with.

Importance of biosafety

We need our safety first, and all the member which are working in the laboratory.

We need protection from infectious agents.

Biosafety provides accidental protection to workers.

Biosafety rules provides us proper guidelines to all infectious agents.

There are several biosafety levels

Biosafety level 1

Biosafety level 2

Biosafety level 3

Biosafety level 4

These are different safety level on the basis of pathogens and organisms we are with in laboratory.

The worker should be trained to use the equipment’s and have knowledge what kind of substances and organisms they are dealing with.

If something spilled so using protocols we can discard the material and disinfect the place and labels the waste with time and date on it and id and the batch number so if any problem happens so it is easy to solve as we what we are dealing with.

Gloves and lab coat provide and basic barrier between the organisms we are dealing with.

Glasses provides protection when we dealing with the product which fumigates and releases gases, so in that they provide protection measures.

Biosafety sign should be pasted in the laboratory.