Handbook of Laboratory Biorisk Management
Author | : Reynolds M. Salerno |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-04-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 1439882916 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781439882917 |
Rating | : 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The increasing risk of naturally occurring and intentionally introduced infectious disease makes the existing approaches to laboratory biosafety and biosecurity no longer adequate. Biorisk management emphasizes the need for a comprehensive, laboratory-specific method to simultaneously reduce both the safety and security risks associated with biological agents in a laboratory. This volume introduces this new field and explains how to implement it. The book sets the stage for a radically different understanding of how to reduce the risks of working with biological agents in laboratories, based on a new paradigm of assessment, mitigation, and performance (the AMP model).