Biological Safety

Biosafety is a complete program of recognition, evaluation, and control to minimize the health risk to students, faculty, staff, and the public from potential exposure to biohazardous materials that are used in the research and teaching activities at MU. To be effective this program needs the active participation of faculty, staff and student.

The Biosafety Program is designed to:

• Enhance biosafety knowledge for MU Faculty, Staff, and Students.
• Assist researchers in protecting personnel, the environment and property from exposure.
• Provide the process and tools to assess safety needs and precautions for emergency response, planning, initiation, and termination of activity involving biohazardous materials.

The goals of the Biosafety Program are:

• Protect personnel from exposure to infectious agents.
• Prevent environmental contamination.
• Provide an environment for high quality research while maintaining a safe work place.
• Comply with applicable federal, state, and local requirements.