Biological Safety

Biosafety Month 2022: out of the approximately 1,800 BSC on the UW-Madison campus, 425 are at least 20 years old.

Biosafety Month 2022: Poliovirus potentially infectious materials (PIM) are anything that may unknowingly contain poliovirus because they were collected at a time and place where wild poliovirus or vaccine-derived poliovirus was in circulation or oral polio vaccine was in use.

Biosafety Month 2022: What IS Biosecurity? The general rule for biosecurity is: the higher the biosafety level, the more security you should incorporate.

Shoes and Clothing in the Research Lab, plus Biological Spill Procedures

To help with BSC maintenance and to minimize BSC contamination, labs should clean and disinfect beneath the BSC work surface on a regular basis. Long handled cleaning pads can help to clean those hard-to-reach areas.

A BSC must be decontaminated by the BSC Certification Program prior to moving

Biosafety Month 2022: Having a hard time coming up with ideas for your annuallab-specificrefresher training? We can help!

Biosafety Month 2022: Having a hard time coming up with ideas for your annuallab-specificrefresher training? We can help!