Institutional Biosafety Committee

The culture of biosafety are attitudes, beliefs, and patterns of behavior.

Biosafety can be defined as a set of measures at different levels (organization, working practices, design of facilities, safety equipment, etc.) to prevent personal, laboratory and environmental exposure to potentially infectious agents or biohazards.

Behind this concept underlies a broad and diversified set of regulations aimed at the protection of living organisms and the environment that regulate aspects such as: shipping, release into the environment, contained use, production, transport, marketing, storage and disposal of biological agents, whether genetically modified or not. The main objective is, therefore, to ensure effective prevention and protection in the field of human health, animal and agricultural production, biodiversity and the environment.

The IBC brings together a group of experts who work to optimize the institutional biosafety program and ensure that all research or teaching practice with biological agents is carried out in accordance with good laboratories practices and legal regulations on biosafety.

"Complacency is the worst enemy of biosafety and biosecurity and is nurtured by a lax organizational culture."

Biosafety programme management (WHO 2020)