Containment Talk

American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE). ANSI/ASSE Z9.14–2014. Standard for testing and performance-verification methodologies for ventilation systems for biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) and animal biosafety level 3 (ABSL-3) facilities. 2014. Available from: http://www.asse.org/assets/1/14/Z9_14_2014_wm1.pdf.

Colella J , Johnson B , Weaver P . The endurance testing process: A methodology to verify the functionality of biocontainment, security, and life safety systems in BSL-3 and BSL-4 laboratories. Appl Biosafety. 2013; 18(1):18–23.

Select Agent (SA) Grams, National Select Agent Registry. Policy regarding the BSL-3/ABSL-3 HVAC and facility verification, 2014. [cited 2015]. Available from: www.cdc.gov/od/eaipp/standard/verification.htm.www.cdc.gov/od/eaipp/standard/verification.htmwww.cdc.gov/od/eaipp/standard/verification.htmwww.cdc.gov/od/eaipp/standard/verification.htm

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Biosafety in microbiological and biomedical laboratories. 5th ed.. Atlanta: CDC; 2009. Available from: www.cdc.gov/biosafety/publications/bmbl5/.