Equipment that workers wear as a barrier against transmission of infection. Includes protective gloves, gowns, masks, goggles, face shields, and resuscitation equipment.

This process identifies hazardous characteristics of an agent to provide guidance to select appropriate biosafety levels and microbiological practices, safety equipment, and facility safeguards to prevent exposures

This classification of agents do not generally cause disease in healthy adult humans.

The most commonly used type of personal protective equipment.

The application of knowledge, practices and techniques, engineering controls, and safety equipment to prevent personal, laboratory and environmental exposure to potentially infectious agents or other biohazards

Ingestion, splash in eyes, absorption through skin, needle stick, inhalation of aerosol

These three items of Personal protective equipment are generally worn at BSL-2

An agent of biological origin that has the capacity to produce deleterious effects on humans. (e.g. Bacteria, viruses, parasites and toxins)

This piece of laboratory equipment provides containment and protection when working with biological agents when there is a risk of aerosolization.

Areas of PPE that have or are likely to have been in contact with infectious materials, or environmental surfaces where the infectious organism may reside.

Describes the safe methods, facilities and equipment for managing/handling infectious materials. Typically abbreviated as BSL-1 to BSL-4

Needles, contaminated broken glass or other sharps should be placed into this for disposal.