Biorisk Management

• Biorisk Management


  • integration of biosafety and biosecurity to manage risks when working with biological toxins and infectious agents
  • system or process to control safety and security risk associated with the handling or storage and disposal or biological agents and toxins in labs and facilities
• Biorisk


  • risk associated to biological toxins or infectious agents
  • source of risk may be unintentional exposure to unauthorized access or intentional unauthorized release of biohazards
• 3 Primary components of Biorisk Management

  known as AMP model

  • Assessment
  • Mitigation
  • Performance
• Risk Assessment


  • initial step in biorisk management
  • includes identification of hazards and characterization of risks
• Hazard


  • anything in the environment that has potential to cause harm
• Risk


  • possibility that something bad or unpleasant will happen
• Mitigation


  • actions and control measures that are put into places to reduce or eliminate the risk associated with biological agents and toxins
• 5 major areas of Mitigation procedures

  • Elimination
  • Substitution
  • Engineering controls
  • Administrative control
  • PPE
• Salerno (2015)


  • he emphasized that " no one of the mitigation controls or measures is completely effective at controlling or reducing all risks"
  • the effective mitigating risks relies on the combination of all different measures and proper utilization of each
• Performance evaluation


  • involves a systemic process intended to achieve organizational objectives and goals
  • ensures that the implemented mitigation measures are indeed reducing or eliminating risks