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=== Biosafety Provisions===
=== Biosafety Provisions===

Revision as of 03:38, 3 September 2013

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Biosafety Provisions

Institutional Regulations

Our project safety procedures are governed by the general regulations of the University regarding the proper standard rules and safety guidelines for laboratory practices.

Teaching and research laboratories in the university are specially regulated accordingly to the dependence they belong to. In our case, the Faculty of Sciences Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Physics.

The specific guidelines for the laboratory work at the Department of Biological Sciences are available online (in Spanish only) Biosafety Guidelines.

Our main workspaces are the LAMFU and the Biophysics facilities, BSL2 research laboratories, but also we occasionally work on several BSL1 teaching laboratories (Department of Biological Sciences).

Institutional Biosafety Committees

There is the Parietal Committee for Occupational Health (COPASO), regulated by the Colombian Constitution (Resolution Number 2013, Year 1989). The information regarding the functions and regulations of the COPASO committee is available online (Spanish only).

There is also the Bioethical Committee of the Faculty of Sciences, to whom we have presented our project proposal. Although we are still waiting for a response from the committee, our research methods and safety precautions are well within the regulations of the Committee.

Biosafety Training & Work Precautions

All team members were required to attend safety training focused on:

• General biosafety principles.

• The proper use of containment equipment (Biological safety (laminar flow) cabinets and delimited working space when required) as well as personal protective equipment (PPE) (White coat and gloves).

• Risk assessment of experiments involving: Recombinant DNA, ethidium bromide, other biohazardous materials.

• Proper Biological waste disposal.

Our main concern was to work with the appropriate safety guidelines for working in both research and teaching laboratories (BL1-BL2) in order to minimize exposure to hazardous agents. We also work with the participating laboratories´ procedures to minimize waste and encourage use of reusable glassware instead of disposable plastic.