Safety
Equipment for Biological Safety / Biosafety Level 3 - BSL 3
1. Protective laboratory clothing such as solid-front or wrap-around
gowns, scrub suits, or coveralls are worn by workers when in
the laboratory. Protective clothing is not worn outside the
laboratory. Reusable clothing is decontaminated before being
laundered. Clothing is changed when overtly contaminated.
2. Gloves must be worn when handling infectious materials,
infected animals, and when handling contaminated equipment.
3. Frequent changing of gloves accompanied by hand washing
is recommended. Disposable gloves are not reused.
4. All manipulations of infectious materials, necropsy of infected
animals, harvesting of tissues or fluids from infected animals
or embryonate eggs , etc., are conducted in a Class II or Class
III biological safety cabinet
5. When a procedure or process cannot be conducted within a
biological safety cabinet, then appropriate combinations of
personal protective equipment (e.g., respirators, face shields)
and physical containment devices (e.g., centrifuge safety cups
or sealed rotors) are used.
6. Respiratory and face protection are used when in rooms containing
infected animals.