Quiz: Basic Concepts on Laboratory Safety Flashcards
This is considered as the backbone of practice of biosafety.
Risk Assessment
This is the methods and equipment for safe manipulation of infectious agents in a laboratory wherein the Biosafety principles guide the conditions for:
Containment (nasa book ba to??????)
Work with high-risk agents that can spread through aerosol transmission and often contagious; can cause serious or lethal disease; controlled, negative pressure environment; access to the lab restricted only to authorized individuals:
BSL-3
Work with high-risk, highly transmissible and potentially lethal agents; no vaccines or treatments available; labs airtight with containment doors, air pumps, negative pressure, and HEPA filtration; workers must wear positive pressure s
BSL-4
A term which is define as an application of knowledge, techniques, and equipment to protect scientific workers, the public, and the environment from accidental exposure to infectious agents and other biohazards
Biosafety
A term which is define as the safekeeping and prevention of unauthorized access to dangerous pathogens and toxins, as well as microbial strains and biological materials of value
Biosecurity
Accomplishing biosecurity involves a cost-benefit consideration because it is __________________ to perfectly secure every aspect of a facility and its assets.
impossible
Agents that are unlikely to cause disease and therefore pose low levels of individual and community risk is:
RGL1
Agents that cause diseases, but these typically are not serious and treatments are available, which of the risk group level?
RGL 2
Agents that cause serious or fatal disease that often are not treatable; often are contagious, which of the risk group level?
RGL 4
Agents that typically cause respiratory infections that cause serious diseases, although they are usually treatable, which of the risk group level?
RGL 3
Both biosafety and biosecurity measures seek to minimize risk. When conducting research on pathogenic agents for peaceful purposes, it is necessary to establish what constitutes a(n) _______________ level of risk.
acceptable
The goal of biosafety measures is to prevent accidental infection or release of organisms and toxins, while biosecurity aims to counter deliberate attempts to acquire BW capabilities or materials. (The Statement is true or The Statement is false)
The Statement is True
The special equipment needed for a biological weapons capability is _______________, being also widely employed in industry and science, and is therefore difficult to regulate and control.
dual use
