About New features in the EN12469:2025

Instructor Matthias Bittner

The course explains why the standard for microbiological safety cabinets (BSCs) EN12469:2000 needed updating. How the European standards group came into being for the review. How such an international group operates. The renewed European standard EN12469:2025 is presented, along with its main features and published parts. It details the changes to performance criteria, their testing and the servicing of the devices. It also explains what to look out for when purchasing, installing and routinely maintaining BSCs.

Target audience

Interested People who work with or are responsible for semi open or closed BSCs of all three EN 12469 classes

Learning Topics

At the end of the course participants will be able to:

• Know the main standardised features of BSCs
• Know how BSCs function as a protection device
• Understand the main features of the new standard EN 12469
• Assess what they might need this standard for

Main topics

History of the development of EN 12469 and related standards
Current EN standard development process
Detailed presentation of the new EN 12469:2025 – key features and changes
Consequences for choosing, installing and servicing a BSC