Handbook of Laboratory Biorisk Management

The increasing risk of naturally occurring and intentionally introduced infectious disease makes the existing approaches to laboratory biosafety and biosecurity no longer adequate. Biorisk management emphasizes the need for a comprehensive, laboratory-specific method to simultaneously reduce both the safety and security risks associated with biological agents in a laboratory. This volume introduces this new field and explains how to implement it. The book sets the stage for a radically different understanding of how to reduce the risks of working with biological agents in laboratories, based on a new paradigm of assessment, mitigation, and performance (the AMP model).