Build with confidence.

With our unyielding adherance to high standards, consultative approach and forward thinking, you can rely on us to design and assist you in all aspects of operating your high containment facilities.

Our services include:

Planning and Design
Commissioning and Certifications
Biorisk Management and Programs
Safety Reviews and Audits
Training and Competence Development

Commissioning and Certifications

Laboratories are complex and dynamic environments. Today’s biomedical research and clinical laboratories have to adapt constantly to changing public health needs and epidemics. An example of this is the need for laboratories to adjust priorities to meet the challenges of emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases. In order to assure that changes, modifications and maintenance are undertaken promptly and in an appropriate and safe manner, all biological research and clinical laboratories should be regularly tested and validated (certification).

We are a team of experienced external facility certifiers who can certify against the local and all international standards and guidelines. We provide the necessary support for your facility and your laboratory operators and workers to become fully compliant with international standards and guidelines such as the WHO Laboratory Biosafety Manual (2004).

Other Biosafety Guidance documents and standards are based on the same principles of facility-oriented and administrative control-oriented scope of certifications.

Biorisk Management and Programs

To operate your facility efficiently and safely, we develop, help to implement and adopt the necessary documents, skills and competencies. With our document templates, knowledge input and training, you will become competent to manage your facility on your own.

Our support includes workshops and hands-on exercises to develop, test and improve procedures and SOPs. On one hand, our approach is based on a combination of top-down information for the institutional management, IBC, BSO and facility supervisors, while on the other hand, on bottom-up hands-on workshops for the BSO, PIs, laboratory workers and maintenance staff.

Our services are delivered by experienced trainers and auditors who ensure that your administrative risk controls will be compatible with any standard or guidance document such as CWA 15793, WHO LBM or CDC/NIH BMBL. As a result, your biorisk management system or programme will ensure a high level of safety culture.

Safety Reviews and Audits

Safety audits can either focus on biosafety issues or cover the full occupational health and safety programme of a laboratory or an institute. Our approach ensures that your safety programme is conformed with national or international safety requirements such as the Workplace Safety and Health Act, the OHSAS 18001 standard or biosafety guidance documents including the WHO Laboratory Biosafety Manual and the CDC/NIH BMBL. The scope of a safety review can range from the whole institute biosafety management system down to the actual bench work. The latter is often referred to as a job hazard analysis which may be used to scrutinize and improve SOPs and bench operations.

Training and Competence Development

Good laboratory design and up-to-date administrative risk controls are two necessary pillars for a safe workplace but are not sufficient in itself.

The third pillar to reach your safety goals is skilled and competent staff. In fact, staff’s skills and competencies deserve more attention at many institutions. For example, staff can cause incidents, but they can also mitigate or even prevent them.

We have developed tailor-made and successful training programmes to sufficiently improve staff performance. For instance, our hands-on workshop “Working Safely in the Biosafety Cabinet” was selected by ABSA and EBSA as a pre-conference workshop and numerous institutions have used this and other workshops we offer to enhance their workers’ skills and competencies..