Information for Biosafety Officers (BSO)

As an employee, you will support your employer in implementing accident prevention and health protection provisions.
You will follow the approved safety rules and instructions of your employer in relation to occupational safety and health protection and report any deficits that could impair occupational safety and health protection.

As a biosafety officer, you support your superiors in implementing biosafety within your research group.

Find out what this task entails here.

 

You can find general information on biosafety at ETH Zurich here.

 

If you, as a BSO, leave ETH Zurich, you must report your leaving date and further details, including the successor BSO’s contact information, via e-mail to . In addition, you must change the BSO in your ECOGEN notifications.

Members of ETH Zurich are sometimes exposed to particular risks of infection or contagion in the course of their research work, during field trials or on excursions, which can be reduced by a Download vaccination (PDF, 133 KB). ETH Zurich bears the costs for the vaccination of its employees who require a special vaccination due to their professional activity at ETH Zurich. The units concerned (chairs, institutes and other organisational units) pay for these costs. Students usually pay for the costs of vaccinations themselves.

For advice regarding vaccinations and receiving vaccinations, you can either contact the external page Travel Clinic of the University of Zurich or the external page Centre for Occupational Medicine, Ergonomics and Hygiene (AEH).

One of the special vaccinations for which information is most frequently sought is the vaccination against tick-borne disease: information on tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and the vaccination itself can be obtained from the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) external page ?Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE)?.

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If required, the external page biosafety curriculum offers courses for training the biosafety officers.

In addition, the BSOs must attend the relevant annual ETH-internal seminars.

Further courses and knowledge must/can be attended or acquired depending on the area of work. You can find these on our course overview.

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