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Resources with keywords: risk assessment



Considerations for Handling Potential SARS-CoV-2 Samples (Document)
ABSA: Emerging Infectious Diseases Committee (EIDC)
9 December 2025

Available in [English revised] [Spanish] [French revised]
Urdu translation upon request to ABSA Office

Fecal Microbiota for Transplantation: Safety Alert - Regarding Additional Safety Protections Pertaining to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 (Website, Regulatory)
FDA
23 March 2020
Manufacturing Facility Assessment Toolkit (Website, Regulatory)
CDC

Tools and resources for occupational safety and health professionals and state and local public health officials assessing manufacturing facilities

Assessment tool for laboratories implementing SARS-CoV-2 testing: Interim Guidance (Website)
WHO

This Laboratory Assessment Tool (LAT) is specifically designed to assess capacities of existing laboratories which have implemented or aim to implement SARS-CoV-2 testing. It addresses both core capacities of a laboratory and specificities related to SARS-CoV-2 testing.

Laboratory biosafety guidance related to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) (Website, Regulatory)
WHO
1 September 2004

WHO Laboratory Risk Assessment tool is on page 9.

Biosafety Risk Assessment of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus and Containment Measures for the Diagnostic and Research Laboratories (Website, Publication)
Applied Biosafety Journal: Journal of ABSA International
1 September 2004

Herman P, Verlinden Y, et al.

COVID-19 Laboratory Workers and Employers (Website, Regulatory)
OSHA

Information on how to classify the risk of laboratory workers based on job tasks

ARCHIVED: Considerations for Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Applying the ISO 35001:2019 Standard and High-Reliability Organizations Principles (Website, Publication)
Applied Biosafety: Journal of ABSA International
25 January 2021

Callihan D, Downing M, Meyer E, et al.

Biorisk Assessment Models (BioRAMs) - Tools for laboratory biorisk officers (Website, Template)
Sandia: GCBS

Designed for use by laboratory biorisk officers, these models provide a visualization of relative risks and help to identify appropriate mitigation measures. They have incorporated GCBS and international biorisk officer experience in drafting sets of criteria, prioritizing the criteria, and outlining their scoring functions. The main objective of these models is to help strengthen laboratory risk governance by providing standardized, systematic, and repeatable assessment methods. Biorisk subject matter expertise was critical in their development, as there currently is no primary imperial data for laboratory biorisks.

IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee) Resources, Washington State University (Website)
Washington State University: The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
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