IBC & Biosafety Resources

Environmental Health & Safety

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Incident Reporting Form:

To report incidents involving biological materials, please download and complete the Incident Reporting Form linked below. Examples of incidents that should be reported include: needlesticks, percutaneous or mucous membrane exposures, spills outside of primary containment, etc.

Biological Incident Reporting Form

Lab Specific Biosafety Manual:

Lab Specific Biosafety Manual (LSBM)

Due to state and federal regulations, LSBMs are required for all BSL-2 laboratories. Regulators such as CT DPH and NIH, will inspect to ensure BSL-2 labs LSBMs are available and accessible. Lab members must review the LSBM on an annual basis. Training dates can be handwritten on the form, or lab member training records can printed from HuskySMS and added to the binder.

Biosafety will provide template LSBM binders as needed. If you would like to schedule a time for an LSBM binder to be delivered to your lab prior to the Biosafety Audit, please send an email request to ibc@uconn.edu.

PIs are responsible for including laboratory specific information within the LSBM, to ensure the manual is specific to the biohazards in the lab. This may include, but is not limited to: Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), agent specific Pathogen Safety Data Sheets, Bloodborne Pathogens fact sheets, etc.

Pathogen Risk Assessments:

Print pathogen safety data sheets and risk assessment documents to incorporate into the LSBM as applicable. Documents below can also be used as a reference to create your own.

Public Health Agency of Canada – Pathogen Safety Data Sheets

Pathogen Risk Assessment- Human Cell Lines.pdf

Pathogen Risk Assessment- Listeria monocytogenes.pdf

Pathogen Risk Assessment- Lentivirus and Lentiviral Vectors.pdf

Pathogen Risk Assessment- Staphylococcus aureus.pdf

Pathogen Risk Assessment- Streptococcal sp..pdf