About EBSA Thursday - How ISO standards and technical specifications can support you in your daily life as BSO (and how you can support ISO with your technical knowledge as BSO)

ISO35001:2019 Biorisk management for laboratories and related organizations is the well-known ISO management system standard supporting you in organizing biosafety and biosecurity in your organization and helping you to address all biorisk management issues that need to be addressed in a concerted manner. It builds on the continuous improvement plan- do-check-act-cycle to keep your biosrisk management system up to date and under control. ISO35001 was designed by biosafety experts like you form different countries around the globe, being a truly international standard, within the context of the International Standardization Organization, ISO, Technical Committee TC212, Clinical laboratory testing and in vitro diagnostic test systems https://www.iso.org/committee/54916/x/catalogue/p/0/u/1/w/0/d/0.

This Technical Committee was best suited to host, as its Working Group 5, the Biorisk Management community. As of now, Working Group 5 develops a Technical Specification on Competence Requirements for Biorisk Management Advisors and an Implementation Guidance for ISO35001:2019. This EBSA Thursday will inform you how these ISO documents can support your work as BSO and how you could be involved in the elaboration of these documents.