WCLN Audio Conference: Improving the Culture of Laboratory Biosafety

Presenters:

• Pete Shult, Ph.D., CDD Director and Emergency Laboratory Response, Communicable Disease Division, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, Madison, WI
• Erin Bowles, B.S., MT(ASCP), Clinical Laboratory Network Coordinator, Communicable Disease Division, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, Madison, WI

Description of Session:

Several issues with lapses in laboratory biosafety and biosecurity at top level federal laboratories over the past year have focused the Nation’s attention on biosafety and biosecurity. Federal funding is being directed to public health to provide training and resources that will help improve the culture of Biosafety and Biosecurity in U.S. laboratories. We will share the plans that we have outlined for the next 3 years for our Wisconsin laboratories as we attempt to improve the culture of biosafety in our Wisconsin clinical and public health laboratories.

A certificate of participation will be granted to each participant based on 1.0 contact hours of instruction toward credit.

This program is co-sponsored by ASCLS-WI which is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E. program.

As part of the new P.A.C.E. continuing education process, please go to the ASCLS CE Organizer web site to print your P.A.C.E. certificates. You will be asked for a code number to print the certificate. We will provide you this number during the teleconference.

Please note that the deadline for receiving P.A.C.E. education credit for this teleconference is April 28, 2016.

Materials:

• Evaluation Form
• Improving the Culture of Laboratory Biosafety Presentation
• Improving the Culture of Laboratory Biosafety – Handouts
• WCLN Audio Conference: Improving the Culture of Laboratory Biosafety – 2015