Biological safety is a critical requirement when working with or around infectious disease agents. To prevent exposures and keep staff and patients safe, laboratories and health care facilities rely on personal protective equipment, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and engineering controls. In an instant, however, a single inappropriate human behavior can negate any of these safeguards.

This reference provides an important call to action for anyone who relies on safety plans to consider carefully the humans who must follow those plans. Written by an expert in behavioral biosafety training, Prepare and Protect offers a common-sense program for addressing and reducing the risk factors of human behavior. Learn how to

• Examine the safety culture of your organization and its approach to risk
• Motivate the compliance, adherence to rules, and community thinking that keep everyone safe
• Evaluate, validate, and verify SOPs and staff competence
• Create safety plans and safety training programs that connect outcomes to behaviors
• Provide leadership that translates the containment philosophy from words to actions

The critical message of this book is illustrated and enriched by personal accounts from infectious disease pioneers, from lab safety directors and trainers to the researchers and health care workers directly affected by infectious hazards.

If your work involves pathogenic microbes—whether treating patients in a hospital emergency department or conducting research in a biosafety level 2 or higher laboratory—or overseeing those who do these jobs, this resource will teach you how to develop a culture of biosafety through behavior.

Sean G. Kaufman, is an author, motivational speaker and CEO of Safer Behaviors in Woodstock, Georgia.  He is a behaviorist and specializes in behaviors with and around infectious diseases.  Sean has assisted biosafety officers and clinical practitioners in shifting workforce cultures toward safer behaviors and has trained thousands around the globe in laboratory safety, clinical containment and emergency response and preparedness.

Foreword

Preface

About the Author

Chapter 1 Infectious Disease Pioneers
Biosafety in the First Person: The Loss of Beth Griffin by Caryl Griffin

Chapter 2 Understanding Containment
Biosafety in the First Person: My First Patient by Dottie Cappola-Vojak

Chapter 3 Biological Risk Mitigation
Biosafety in the First Person: The Lab Mom by Carrie Anglewicz

Chapter 4 Human Risk Factors
Biosafety in the First Person: Malcolm Was My Friend by Joseph Kanabrocki

Chapter 5 Four Primary Controls of Safety
Biosafety in the First Person: The Dancer of Biosafety by Jim Welch

Chapter 6 Understanding Human Behavior
Biosafety in the First Person: It Could Have Been HIV by Henry Mathews

Chapter 7 The Containment Philosophy
Biosafety in the First Person: I’d Do It All Over Again by Lee Alderman

Chapter 8 Plans + Behaviors = Outcomes
Biosafety in the First Person: Biosafety Found Me by Anthony (AJ) Troiano

Chapter 9 Intrinsic Safety
Biosafety in the First Person: The Bruises of Biosafety by Sarah Ziegler

Chapter 10 Building a ONESAFE Culture
Biosafety in the First Person: An Incredible Journey by Robert Hawley

Chapter 11 Emergency Preparedness and Response to Biological Risks
Biosafety in the First Person: We All Have a Bucket by Tim Trevan

Chapter 12 Standard Operating Behavior
Biosafety in the First Person: The Biosafety Profession: An Unexpected Journey by Joe Kozlovac

Chapter 13 Effective Training Strategies
Biosafety in the First Person: She Was One of Us! by Karen Byers

Chapter 14 The Beaking Method
Biosafety in the First Person: Representing the Profession of Biosafety by Ed Stygar

Chapter 15 Safety Surveillance Programs
Biosafety in the First Person: Experience in Years by Mike Pentella

Chapter 16 Responsible Leadership
Biosafety in the First Person: The Road Less Traveled into Biosafety by Bob Ellis

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Index