specialized clothing worn to protect you from the biohazards that you are working with
May include gloves, surgical mask, goggles, face shields, and head cover.

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

These agents such as E. coli 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.

Name the minimum PPE that is required for ABSL-2

This SOP describes BSL-2 rodent husbandry

One of the simplest and important things that can be done to prevent spread of germs.