Biocontainment Project Management

The necessity of staff and stakeholder input.

Published April 2008

To make sure you are planning the right facility, get all stakeholders to sign off on a design-intent document and pass that document along at each project stage -- all the way to the user at the end. If you don’t have your occupational health and safety, biosafety, vivarium, facilities engineering, and commissioning people in the project at the beginning, count on re-design expense and delays. To have a safe, properly run biocontainment operation, you must create a real biosafety culture among everyone involved in the program.

- From Tradeline's International Conference on Biocontainment Facilities 2008