ABSTRACT

Liability: Reduce risk of fines or laws due to improper or negligent operations.

Biosafety levels consist of laboratory practices, equipment, and laboratory facilities. Microbiological and biomedical laboratories are categorized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) into possible biosafety levels. These levels require four different combinations of operational techniques, safety equipment, and facilities design appropriate for the hazards posed the laboratory activity. following are requirements common to biosafety levels:

The levels and their characteristics are as follows:

" undergraduate and educational teaching laboratories facilities in is done with defined characterized strains of viable micro-organisms not known to cause disease in healthy adult humans."