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Pre conference course A - Biological Risk Assessment – from paper to practice - Instructors

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Pre conference course A - Biological Risk Assessment – from paper to practice

It is known that human reliability and behaviour have a major impact on an individuals ability to work safely in a laboratory; and yet these same factors can be overlooked when assessing the risks in that laboratory. This pre-conference course will take your risk assessments to the next level through ensuring that human reliability is accounted for in risk assessments and introduce the concept of safety critical task analysis.

This pre-conference course is aimed at those individuals who are already risk assessors or understand the risk assessment process and provide attendees with the skills and knowledge to complete safety critical task analysis. It will not only consist of theory sessions on risk assessment and human reliability but also a visit to teaching laboratories at ITM and so taking the biological risk assessment process from paper to practice.

  1. Adam Stevenson

    Adam Stevenson

    Director of Healthand Safety, Cranfield University 

    I have over 20 years’ experience working as a health and safety professional. I have worked in public, private, and academic sectors and I have a firm conviction of the importance of safety in the working environment. As well as been a chartered fellow safety professional, I am also a qualified trainer, accredited auditor, and chartered manager. I have developed various organisational strategies for health and safety management which extends to implementing approaches on human factors in laboratories. Currently my day-to-day work involves providing pragmatic safety advice on a range of subject matters including chemicals, biologicals, equipment, building safety and beyond.

    Academic Education and Degrees:

    • MSc Health and Safety Risk Management  
    • NEBOSH Certificate & Diploma Occupational Health and Safety  
    • BSc (Hons) Applied Science and Forensic Measurement  
    • Level 5 Diploma Operations/Departmental Manager  
    • Level 3 Award & Level 4 Certificate in Education and Training 
    • Human Factors in Safety Critical Task Analysis
  2. Wendy Shell

    Wendy Shell

    Bio Risk Officer | AGES – Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit GmbH), Mödling, Austria

    Wendy Shell, CMIOSH MISTR BSc (Hons) MSc has over 12 years’ experience working as a Biosafety, Biosecurity and Bio Risk expert, as well as being a chartered health and safety professional. She has worked in this field, predominantly in the Government laboratory sector, in both the UK and in Austria. She was responsible for the development and implementation of human factors analysis in BSL3 and BSL4 in vivo and in vitro facilities as well as the incorporation of these into routine laboratory risk assessment and accident investigations. She has developed and delivered numerous biosafety and biosecurity training courses in the UK, Europe and Internationally. Currently she is the Bio Risk Officer at the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (business area Animal Health), with biorisk management responsibilities in diagnostic and research laboratories ranging from BSL2 to BSL3+ (BLS3Ag).

    Academic Education and Degrees
    MSc: Virology
    BSc (Hons): Zoology
    NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety (Distinction)

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