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    Biosafety is a framework that describes practices and safety measures to protect people from accidental exposure to biological hazards. Risk assessment identifies inherent business risks and measures to reduce their impact, which is related to biosafety. There are four biosafety levels - levels 1 and 2 apply to low and moderate risk agents, while levels 3 and 4 study high risk agents that could cause lethal infections through inhalation. Examples of maintaining biosafety include hand washing, surface disinfection, protective equipment, biological safety cabinets, and proper waste disposal. The Cartagena Protocol aims to ensure safe handling of living modified organisms to protect biodiversity and human health from potential risks.

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    Biosafety is a framework that describes practices and safety measures to protect people from accidental exposure to biological hazards. Risk assessment identifies inherent business risks and measures to reduce their impact, which is related to biosafety. There are four biosafety levels - levels 1 and 2 apply to low and moderate risk agents, while levels 3 and 4 study high risk agents that could cause lethal infections through inhalation. Examples of maintaining biosafety include hand washing, surface disinfection, protective equipment, biological safety cabinets, and proper waste disposal. The Cartagena Protocol aims to ensure safe handling of living modified organisms to protect biodiversity and human health from potential risks.

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    Biosafety is a framework that describes practices and safety measures to protect people from accidental exposure to biological hazards. Risk assessment identifies inherent business risks and measures to reduce their impact, which is related to biosafety. There are four biosafety levels - levels 1 and 2 apply to low and moderate risk agents, while levels 3 and 4 study high risk agents that could cause lethal infections through inhalation. Examples of maintaining biosafety include hand washing, surface disinfection, protective equipment, biological safety cabinets, and proper waste disposal. The Cartagena Protocol aims to ensure safe handling of living modified organisms to protect biodiversity and human health from potential risks.

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    PATALINGHUG, TRISHIA MAE E.

    BSCE 3 DAY

    GEE – ES Environmental Science Take – Home Task

    1. What is biosafety? What is its importance?


    - Biosafety is a framework that describes the use of specific practices, training, safety
    equipment, and specially designed buildings to protect the worker, community, and
    environment from an accidental exposure or unintentional release of infectious agents and
    toxins. Its importance is that biosafety implements actions to identify biological hazards,
    evaluate the level of health-related risks the biological hazard presents to humans,
    agriculture (such as livestock and crops), wildlife, and the environment, and identify ways to
    reduce the health-related risks associated with the biological hazard.

    2. What is risk assessment? How is it related to biosafety?


    - Risk assessment is the identification of hazards that could negatively impact an
    organization's ability to conduct business. These assessments help identify these inherent
    business risks and provide measures, processes and controls to reduce the impact of these
    risks to business operations. Risk assessment is related to biosafety in a way that both are
    focusing on providing principles and practices on reducing the risks of accidental exposure.

    3. What is a Biosafety Level? Describe each level briefly.


     Biosafety Level 1 (BSL-1)
    o As the lowest of the four, biosafety level 1 applies to laboratory settings in
    which personnel work with low-risk microbes that pose little to no threat of
    infection in healthy adults.
     Biosafety Level 2 (BSL-2)
    o BSL-2 laboratories are used to study moderate-risk infectious agents or toxins
    that pose a risk if accidentally inhaled, swallowed, or exposed to the skin. Design
    requirements for BSL-2 laboratories include hand washing sinks, eye washing
    stations in case of accidents, and doors that close automatically and lock.
     Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3)
    o BSL-3 laboratories are used to study infectious agents or toxins that may be
    transmitted through the air and cause potentially lethal infection through
    inhalation exposure.
     Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4)
    o BSL-4 laboratories are used to study infectious agents or toxins that pose a high
    risk of aerosol-transmitted laboratory infections and life-threatening disease for
    which no vaccine or therapy is available.
    4. Give examples of ways to control/maintain biosafety in your area (e.g. workplace, residence).
    - Some examples of ways to control/maintain biosafety are the following:
    o One of the simplest measures we can take to protect ourselves (and others) inside
    and outside of the laboratory is washing our hands.  This simple procedure has been
    thoroughly demonstrated to be the primary means of infection and contamination
    control in laboratory and clinical settings.
    o Have some routine surface disinfection
    o Wear gloves when handling tools or equipment.
    o Have some biological safety cabinets.
    o Throw the garbage properly. Separate infectious garbage with normal ones.
    o Have a first aid kit in every room.

    5. Explain briefly what is Cartagena Protocol and its relevance to the environment.
    - Cartagena Protocol is an international agreement which aims to ensure the safe handling,
    transport and use of living modified organisms (LMOs) resulting from modern biotechnology
    that may have adverse effects on biological diversity, taking also into account risks to human
    health. It aims to protect nature from the potential risks posed by such organisms by
    establishing procedures countries can use to make informed decisions on the import of such
    organisms.

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