#  Biosafety Manual 

 



 

 [ Biosafety Manual arrow\_circle\_right ](/resource/biosafety-manual-download) 

 



##  Summary 

 



Follow safety guidance, policies, and procedures to use and manipulate biological materials at Harvard, including:

- Roles and responsibilities.
- Committee on Microbiological Safety (COMS) oversight and microbiological safety.
- Biological safety, biohazards, biosecurity controls, risk assessments, and risk management.
- Biological lab facility design.
- Lab move-in.
- Biological safety training and personal protective equipment (PPE).
- Biosafety cabinets and work practices to reduce aerosols.
- Handling biological sharps.
- Shipping biological materials.
- Decontamination and biological waste management.
- Incident reporting.
- Occupational health and medical surveillance.
- Lab close-out.



 

 

##  Who is this for? 

 



Labs and research.



 

 

 

 

 

 See also:- [ Labs and Research ](/audience/labs-and-research)
- [ Biosafety ](/topic-areas/biosafety)
- [ Biological Project Registration ](/topic-areas/biological-project-registration)
- [ Select Agents ](/topic-areas/select-agents)
- [ Lab Emergencies ](/topic-areas/lab-emergencies)
- [ Lab Move-in and Move-out ](/topic-areas/lab-move-and-move-out)
- [ Personal Protective Equipment ](/topic-areas/personal-protective-equipment)
- [ Biological and Dry Ice Shipping ](/topic-areas/biological-and-dry-ice-shipping)
- [ Biological Waste ](/topic-areas/biological-waste)
- [ Solid Biological and Pathological Waste ](/topic-areas/solid-biological-and-pathological-waste)
- [ Sharps Disposal ](/topic-areas/sharps-disposal)