05. Biosafety and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP): How to Live in Harmony

A distance learning opportunity
March 6, 2024
12:00 – 2:00 PM (CST)

Registration for the live webinar must be completed 1 business day prior to the start of the training.
Registrations received after will receive access to the recording only.

Biosafety and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP): How to Live in Harmony is a webinar that will help anyone who works in a GMP/quality environment that also must consider biosafety requirements. The webinar will discuss what GMP is, why it is important, and how to harmonize GMP and biosafety requirements and regulations. At the conclusion, participants will understand what GMP is, why it is critical for manufacturing facilities, and how to ensure biocontainment is maintained while also ensuring product safety. The webinar will be led by a biosafety professional with over 5 years’ experience in a GMP/manufacturing environment.

Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Recognize what GMP means and what quality requirements are
• Recognize that GMP and biosafety requirements must be aligned to ensure both quality and biosafety are met
• Determine what needs to be considered when assessing or reviewing biosafety requirements in a GMP setting, including conducting risk assessments, reviewing facility designs/renovations, considering emergency response, and working with different stakeholders

• Biosafety professionals in government, industry, academia, public health, clinical laboratories, and other institutions/organizations
• Anyone who regularly communicates about biosafety with the public or non-biosafety professionals

The webinar will be presented by the following subject matter expert:

Rebecca McGirr, MSc, RBSO(CABS), RBP(ABSA), Sanofi, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This course has been approved for 0.25 CM points toward RBP/CBSP recertification. ABSA International is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.^® Program. This course is approved for 2.50 P.A.C.E.^® contact hours. The links to the various invitations for the course will be unique to the user and cannot be shared. The links are for single, individual use only. If more than one occurrence of an individual’s name is on the attendee list for the webinar through Zoom platform, all instances of that person’s name will be removed from the webinar with no refund. The webinar and its associated links are for single, individual use only.