Planning for the People in Your BSL

Make your high containment space liveable.

Published March 2007 Two tips for accommodating the human side of your biocontainment research endeavor.

In the heat of planning for biocontainment, don’t forget that people are going to work in these spaces, and for that think how you can introduce natural light. Also, put mirrors in you de-gowning rooms to remind people what protective they may still have on before they try leaving the facility.

- From Tradeline’s 2007 International Conference on Biocontainment Facilities