The Department of Biology at the College of Science at the University of Baghdad has organized a training course entitled “Bio-Risk Management” in the presence of a number of professors, researchers, graduate students and laboratory quality and management. The aim of the course was to identify biological and chemical laboratories, which are one of the most dangerous workplaces, as they contain many risks represented by chemicals, biological, harmful radiation, electricity, fire, compressed gas cylinders and other potential risks, as well as to highlight the basics of work to maintain human health, prevent risks and maintain the laboratory, particularly in following the world-renowned standard public safety rules in various countries of the world, whether in satisfactory laboratories. The participants also the most important factors that should be available in chemical or biological testing laboratories used for the preparation of acids, medicines, etc.
The course that was chaired by a group of professors in the department of biology, recommended that occupational safety and public health systems should be applied in the laboratories of educational institutions, especially for graduate students, and to raise awareness of the risks of injuries, biological hazards, biosecurity and radioactive materials, to inform them of sources of pollution and general safety precautions in the course and after work, storage methods, fire types and extinguishers, and the potential relative risks of contamination with micro-organisms, residues and other hazards and the risks to which laboratory workers are exposed. Biologists and chemists have many sources of risk to the various organs of the body in terms of feeling first, calling on them to be well trained to deal with the sources of risk accurately, and not to be the victim of ignorance of laboratory safety issues on their ease or unintentional negligence in how to deal with emergencies that can occur in the laboratory at work.
