A Tool for Assessment of Animal Health Laboratory Safety and Biosecurity: The Safety Module of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Laboratory Mapping Tool
The Laboratory Management Tool (LMT) is a standardized spreadsheet-based assessment tool developed to help support national, regional, and global efforts to maintain an effective network of animal health and veterinary public health laboratories. The safety and biosecurity module of the LMT (LMT-S)...
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| author | Beatrice Mouillé Gwenaelle Dauphin Lidewij Wiersma Stuart D. Blacksell Filip Claes Wantanee Kalpravidh Youssouf Kabore Sharon Hietala |
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| description | The Laboratory Management Tool (LMT) is a standardized spreadsheet-based assessment tool developed to help support national, regional, and global efforts to maintain an effective network of animal health and veterinary public health laboratories. The safety and biosecurity module of the LMT (LMT-S) includes 98 measures covering administrative, operational, engineering, and personal protective equipment practices used to provide laboratory safety and biosecurity. Performance aspects of laboratory infrastructure and technical compliance considered fundamental for ensuring that a laboratory is able to appropriately function in a safe and biosecure manner are systematically queried and scored for compliance on a four-point scale providing for a semi-quantitative assessment. Data collected is used to generate graphs and tables mapping levels of compliance with international standards and good practices, as well as for documenting progress over time. The LMT-S was employed by trained auditors in 34 laboratories located in 19 countries between 2015 and 2017. The tool is intended to help standardize animal health laboratory assessments, document compliance with recognized laboratory safety and biosecurity measures, serve as a self-help and training tool, and assist global laboratory development efforts by providing an accurate measurement of laboratory safety and biosecurity at local, national, and regional levels. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f9dfc0138e414fedbeecd3a009f03b332022-12-22T04:09:46ZengMDPI AGTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease2414-63662018-03-01313310.3390/tropicalmed3010033tropicalmed3010033A Tool for Assessment of Animal Health Laboratory Safety and Biosecurity: The Safety Module of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Laboratory Mapping ToolBeatrice Mouillé0Gwenaelle Dauphin1Lidewij Wiersma2Stuart D. Blacksell3Filip Claes4Wantanee Kalpravidh5Youssouf Kabore6Sharon Hietala7Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome 00153, ItalyCEVA Animal Health, Libourne 33500, FranceFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome 00153, ItalyCenter for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7FZ, UKFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Emergency Center of the Transboundary Animal Diseases, Bangkok 10200, ThailandFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Emergency Center of the Transboundary Animal Diseases, Bangkok 10200, ThailandFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Dakar 999066, SenegalDepartment of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USAThe Laboratory Management Tool (LMT) is a standardized spreadsheet-based assessment tool developed to help support national, regional, and global efforts to maintain an effective network of animal health and veterinary public health laboratories. The safety and biosecurity module of the LMT (LMT-S) includes 98 measures covering administrative, operational, engineering, and personal protective equipment practices used to provide laboratory safety and biosecurity. Performance aspects of laboratory infrastructure and technical compliance considered fundamental for ensuring that a laboratory is able to appropriately function in a safe and biosecure manner are systematically queried and scored for compliance on a four-point scale providing for a semi-quantitative assessment. Data collected is used to generate graphs and tables mapping levels of compliance with international standards and good practices, as well as for documenting progress over time. The LMT-S was employed by trained auditors in 34 laboratories located in 19 countries between 2015 and 2017. The tool is intended to help standardize animal health laboratory assessments, document compliance with recognized laboratory safety and biosecurity measures, serve as a self-help and training tool, and assist global laboratory development efforts by providing an accurate measurement of laboratory safety and biosecurity at local, national, and regional levels.http://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/3/1/33biosafetybiosecurityanimal healthlaboratory assessment |
| spellingShingle | Beatrice Mouillé Gwenaelle Dauphin Lidewij Wiersma Stuart D. Blacksell Filip Claes Wantanee Kalpravidh Youssouf Kabore Sharon Hietala A Tool for Assessment of Animal Health Laboratory Safety and Biosecurity: The Safety Module of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Laboratory Mapping Tool Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease biosafety biosecurity animal health laboratory assessment |
| title | A Tool for Assessment of Animal Health Laboratory Safety and Biosecurity: The Safety Module of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Laboratory Mapping Tool |
| title_full | A Tool for Assessment of Animal Health Laboratory Safety and Biosecurity: The Safety Module of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Laboratory Mapping Tool |
| title_fullStr | A Tool for Assessment of Animal Health Laboratory Safety and Biosecurity: The Safety Module of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Laboratory Mapping Tool |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Tool for Assessment of Animal Health Laboratory Safety and Biosecurity: The Safety Module of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Laboratory Mapping Tool |
| title_short | A Tool for Assessment of Animal Health Laboratory Safety and Biosecurity: The Safety Module of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Laboratory Mapping Tool |
| title_sort | tool for assessment of animal health laboratory safety and biosecurity the safety module of the food and agriculture organization s laboratory mapping tool |
| topic | biosafety biosecurity animal health laboratory assessment |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/2414-6366/3/1/33 |
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