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Pre conference course A - Beyond safety – key professional skills throughout a career in biosafety / biosecurity - Instructors

mecc, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Pre conference course A - Beyond safety – key professional skills throughout a career in biosafety / biosecurity

Additional to technical knowledge, a successful career in biosafety or biosecurity requires a number of transferable professional skills. This course will give participants grounding and insight into key skills used by professionals in many areas, and examine how those impact upon a career in biosafety / biosecurity both generally and specifically. 

  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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