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Incident Reporting and Biosafety Training in a BSL-3 Select Agent Facility
Abstract:
Incident reporting is an important component of any biosafety program. Effective analysis of incident report data can be used to evaluate compliance with standard operating procedures (SOPs) and the safety of different procedures and laboratorians, with the overall goal of preventing future incidents. This study analyzed incident reports from a BSL-3 select agent facility over a 3-year period in conjunction with the number of hours
worked in that facility over that same time period. The majority of incidents involved very small consequence events that occurred inside a biosafety cabinet. To a lesser degree, incidents involved compromised personal protective equipment (PPE), broken equipment, and failures to fully adhere to SOPs. A significant relationship was noted between the number of incidents and the number of hours worked in a particular time period (p)
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