As more biological laboratories are built around the world, there is increasing need for a common approach to managing facilities and safeguarding laboratory staff, communities and the environment.

Please join us in an initiative to address this need through the creation of an internationally recognized biosafety and biosecurity management Standard.
This peer-designed Standard will complement current World Health Organization biosafety and biosecurity guidelines and enhance existing national regulatory requirements. It will address issues related to the management of people, facilities and working procedures.

An international biosafety and biosecurity management Standard will:
• Improve laboratory performance through the adoption of recognized good practices
• Increase awareness and the adoption of management system approaches in the biosafety and biosecurity sector
• Provide organizations with a tool for internal audit and third-party certification of facilities and management systems
• Provide stakeholders with a benchmark in setting requirements for laboratory facilities
• Facilitate international exchange and collaboration

This Standard will be developed using the CEN Workshop Agreement process, an internationally recognized consensus-based standards-development approach (click to learn “What is a CEN Workshop?”).