Biosafety Unit, CRISP, FHML, MUMC+
A) Procedure for approval and registration of GMO-employees*
BSO: Biosafety Officer
DBE: Departmental Biosafety Expert
RI: Responsible Investigator
Employee = employee/student/trainee staying longer than 6 weeks
** Dutch abbreviations
B) Procedure for approval and registration of GMO-workspaces
*Dutch abbreviations
Appendix 1
Instruction matrix for approval employees, Responsible Investigators investigators, Departmental Biosafety Experts and employees, using pathogenic micro-organisms at MUMC
Education/Experience / Reading & Signing Internal Procedures
Video / SMT test including study material / SMT-course, including
practice
Bachelor in Molecular Life Sciences or Vocational education
possessing SMT certificate / x
Medical Sciences, Biological Health and Human Movement Sciences or GMO-experience / x
Science, Technology,
Psychology / x
Excluded are D-I workers: They have to take the art 9 course, including a lecture on Genetic Modified Organisms by the BSO.
Employees performing ML-I tissue culture (non-GMO) are not registered in the logbooks.
Departmental Biosafety Experts (DBE) need to perform a theoretical examn on Safe Microbiological Techniques (SMT).
Addendum::
· SMT-course: knowledge and experience working with micro-organisms and cells on Biosafety level 1 and 2
· Students Molecular Life Sciences, as well as Laboratory highschool (HLO) perform a SMT course during the bachelors.
· Students Biological Sciences, Human Movement Sciences and Medicine do usually lack some knowledge at both theoretical and practical side
· SMT self-study: knowledge of the theory, syllabus SMT, the movie: “Ëxactly as it should be” as well as a number of internal procedures. SMT test contains multiple choice questions, open questions en one casus
· Internal Procedures and instructions can be found at: www.crispmaastricht.nl
· For foreign students the procedures and instructions are in English as well: they have to sign for reading and understand these procedures.
· In case of doubts about knowledge and competences, the BSO interviews the employee and approves or the employee will be trained.
Relevant Forms
formulieren : Approval as GMO worker
Relevant procedures
procedures en instructies :
Further information
Biosafety Officers:
Marjanne Markerink, Biosafety Officer_UM; tel: 82986;
Diny van Faassen, Biosafety Offuicer_azM (tel: 81237,