Biological
safety and waste disposal
- Purdue
Biological
Safety Manual
The section dealing with WHAT
EXACTLY are biohazards is
Appendix D: Biological Agent Risk Classification.
It's long, and quoted pretty directly from
NIH. It
is required.
The sections dealing with
BIO-WASTE TREATMENT AND
PICK-UP are
on the page
numbered 24 and in Appendix B.
- List of Select
Agents from CDC. Agents having potential for use in bioterrorism.
Individuals (grad students, postdocs, faculty members) can now go to prison for incorrect management of
select agents.
Department of Health and Human Services Final Rule (Federal Register final rule affects 42 CFR Parts 72, 73 and 1003, possession, use, and transfer of select agents and toxins)
Department of Agriculture Final Rule (Federal Register
final rule affects 7 CFR Part 331 and 9 CFR Part 121, regarding animal and plant health inspections)
- See the REM information about shipping. "Hazardous materials" might include things that are not incredibly hazardous but require careful shipping details to be attended to. SHIPPING of biological samples is highly regulated, and even the most benign-seeming small thing which 20 years ago you would have just popped into an envelope and sent to your colleague at Cambridge..... must be considered carefuly by the people who know how to follow all of the the Deparetment of Transportation rules.
- Blood or other body fluid or waste clean-up. REM provides a page of guidance. If you discover a biological mess of some kind (vomit, blood, etc) in BRWN or WTHR or other academic building (this does not apply to residence halls), notify
the
building deputy (for BRWN and WTHR call the building deputy Blaine Schutz
or someone on his staff in the Chem Shop 45209 or 45211). If you cannot
reach the building deputy or he/she cannot respond, or during other hours
phone the Purdue Police business line and they will contact the Building Services supervisor and have trained people come to clean it up.
IF POSSIBLE THE PERSON whose blood or other body fluid is to be cleaned up should be the person to clean it up, since that person is not at risk from their own
body fluids. If practical, cordon off the area until the person
responsible for the body fluid(s) can return and mop it up
- Bio
waste disposal
- Biosafety Cabinet
Installation/Moving/Certification
- BBP training -- Required of those working with unfixed human tissue
or primary cell lines, human blood or blood products. Commercially obtained cell lines
do not trigger the training requirement (at the discretion of the Biosafety Officer).
But these will trigger the training requirement if they are obtained from another lab,
due to the potential of disease contamination. Note: commercially obtained cell lines used in research must be registered with the PU Institutional Biosafety Committee where we require the PI to review BSL2 lab practices.
- Institutional
Biosafety Committee VP Research Office, licensing requirements for any and
all research or teaching work with any and all biohazards.
IBC
Forms 1A, 2A, and Bio-lab cleanout/closure documentation form are at this OVPR page.
From CDC and NIH --
Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories
(BMBL) 4th Edition Answers to detailed questions, for example "exactly what kind of work
with Yersinia pestis requires BSL3 containment?"