Hazard Assessment for NIH BSL-3 Biodefense Laboratory Project

-- Accomplishments

• Evaluated potential hazards with planned use for this laboratory facility
• Conducted focus groups and informational meetings with representatives of community groups and employees on perceived hazards with this planned facility
• Evaluated measures and countermeasures planned to control risks in this facility
• Evaluated community, worker, and media responses to client regarding communication of public health issues
• Developed a bibliography of risk assessment methodologies that might prove useful for the unique circumstances of the planned facility
• Met with officials from a wide range of disciplines to ascertain risk management issues throughout the client organization
• Recommended an action plan for establishing an assessment of risks in partnership with employees and representatives of the surrounding communities

-- Client’s name and contact person

• National Institutes of Health/Division of Occupational Health and Safety
• Dr. Deborah E. Wilson

-- Project's time frame: Oct 2002–June 2003
-- Dollar value of contract: $40,000

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