This training is intended to provide laboratory personnel with a general understanding of safety issues associated with a biosafety level 2 and/or 3 laboratory as well as animal biosafety level 2 facility. The following topics will be covered:
- An overview of occupational hazards that are associated with infectious materials
- Identification of tasks and behaviors that may increase the potential for exposure
- Review of basic mode of disease transmission
- Overview of standard work practices
- General emergency response information