Download or read book Guidance on regulations for the transport of infectious substances 2021 2022 written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication offers practical guidance to facilitate compliance with applicable international regulations for the transport of infectious substances by all modes of transport and includes the changes that apply from 1 January 2021. The document provides information for classifying, identifying, packaging, marking, labelling, documenting and refrigerating infectious substances for transportation and ensuring their safe delivery. The current revision replaces the document issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019 (document WHO/WHE/CPI/2019.20). When using this publication, reference must be made to the applicable international regulations.
Download or read book Guidance on regulations for the transport of infectious substances 2023 2024 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidance on Regulations for the Transport of Infectious Substances 2015 2016 written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Infectious substances are transported for a variety of different reasons, within countries and across international borders. It is incumbent upon shippers to ensure packaging and shipping conditions meet regulatory requirements to preserve the integrity of materials, and facilitate their timely arrival at destination. Postal, airline and other transport industry personnel may have concerns about the possibility of becoming infected as the result of exposure to infectious microorganisms that may escape from broken, leaking or improperly packaged material. The packaging of infectious substances for transport must therefore be designed to minimize the potential for damage during transport. In addition, the packaging must ensure the integrity of the materials and so, in turn, timely and accurate processing of specimens. The following guidelines provide information for classifying infectious substances for transportation and ensuring their safe packaging. They stress the importance of developing a working relationship between those involved--the sender, the carrier and the receiver--in order to provide for safe and expeditious transport of these materials. These guidelines provide practical guidance to facilitate compliance with applicable international regulations for the transport of infectious substances and patient specimens by all modes of transport, both nationally and internationally, and include the changes that apply from 1 January 2015. They replace the guidelines issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2013 (document WHO/CDS/IHR/2012.12). This publication, however, does not replace national and international transport regulations. Today, thousands of samples of infectious substances need to be shipped and are shipped daily around the world. Human and animal specimens are collected and shipped for a variety of reasons, including disease investigations, clinical trials, surveillance studies, antidoping testing, routine analyses, etc. Regular and occasional shippers consign infectious substances for transport on a daily basis. These include the pharmaceutical industry, health care facilities, diagnostic and research laboratories, medical practitioners, and individual patients. In the interest of global public health, human and animal specimens need to be transported safely, timely, efficiently and legally from the place where they are collected to the place where they will be analyzed. Regardless of the presumed infection status of the patient, specimens of human and animal origin should be packaged and transported in such a way as to protect those engaged in transportation from the risk of infection. Risks of infection of personnel involved in transport may not be fully eliminated. However, they can undoubtedly be kept to a minimum. In addition, damage to packaging also means that samples dispatched for urgent tasks like analyses are unlikely to arrive to destination on time. In order to make appropriate decisions, shippers must understand their need and obligation to be familiar with regulatory requirements. Dangerous goods regulations require all personnel involved in transport to undergo appropriate training. Appropriate training and education, commensurate with the shipper's responsibilities, will provide the shipper with the necessary degree of familiarity with applicable requirements, addressing identification, classification, packaging, marking, labelling, refrigeration and required documentation for the transport of infectious substances. This document will familiarize the reader with current international and modal requirements for the shipment of infectious substances."--Page 3
Download or read book Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air 1986 written by Dangerous Goods Panel of Air Navigations and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergency Response Guidebook written by U.S. Department of Transportation and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the identification number 60 indicate a toxic substance or a flammable solid, in the molten state at an elevated temperature? Does the identification number 1035 indicate ethane or butane? What is the difference between natural gas transmission pipelines and natural gas distribution pipelines? If you came upon an overturned truck on the highway that was leaking, would you be able to identify if it was hazardous and know what steps to take? Questions like these and more are answered in the Emergency Response Guidebook. Learn how to identify symbols for and vehicles carrying toxic, flammable, explosive, radioactive, or otherwise harmful substances and how to respond once an incident involving those substances has been identified. Always be prepared in situations that are unfamiliar and dangerous and know how to rectify them. Keeping this guide around at all times will ensure that, if you were to come upon a transportation situation involving hazardous substances or dangerous goods, you will be able to help keep others and yourself out of danger. With color-coded pages for quick and easy reference, this is the official manual used by first responders in the United States and Canada for transportation incidents involving dangerous goods or hazardous materials.
Download or read book Practical manual on tuberculosis laboratory strengthening written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Outbreak Atlas written by Rebecca Katz and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public has taken a new level of interest in outbreak response since 2020, learning epidemiological terms and seeking information about how to stay prepared in a pandemic. Public health professionals are calling on citizen scientists’ participation as outbreaks are increasingly occurring in complex environments, expanding the number of people and types of activities required to control the spread of disease. However, there is no comprehensive source mapping this complexity and detailing needed actions tailored to the public. For years the Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security has curated an interactive online tool for professionals that identifies the activities involved across all phases of an outbreak. The Georgetown Outbreak Activity Library (GOAL) captures what needs to get done, when, and by whom. Now, in The Outbreak Atlas, Rebecca Katz and Mackenzie S. Moore have translated this complex material into a book designed for a public audience. This book provides an overview of outbreak activities alongside compelling case studies and visuals to guide readers through the complexity involved in outbreak preparedness, response, and recovery. It lifts the curtain on the rationale and interconnectedness of outbreak responses across different fields and at various levels, presenting accessible information that ensures a shared understanding of the essential activities to control an outbreak.
Download or read book Laboratory manual for yellow fever written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This WHO laboratory manual provides the most up to date methods and procedures for the laboratory identification of yellow fever virus infection in humans. It provides guidance on the establishment and maintenance of an effective laboratory providing routine surveillance testing for yellow fever, which operates within the WHO coordinated Global Yellow Fever Laboratory Network (GYFLaN) capable of providing confirmation of yellow fever infection reliably and timely. This second edition supersedes the first edition of the 2004 WHO manual for the monitoring of yellow fever virus infection.
Download or read book Medical Devices and In Vitro Diagnostics written by Christian Baumgartner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-26 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updatable reference work gives a comprehensive overview of all relevant regulatory information and requirements for manufacturers and distributors around medical and in-vitro diagnostic devices in Europe. These individual requirements are presented in a practice-oriented manner, providing the reader with a concrete guide to implementation with main focus on the EU medical device regulations, such as MDR 2017/745 and IVD-R 2017/746, and the relevant standards, such as the ISO 13485, ISO 14971, among others. This book offers a good balance of expert knowledge, empirical values and practice-proven methods. Not only it provides readers with a quick overview about the most important requirements in the medical device sector, yet it shows concrete and proven ways in which these requirements can be implemented in practice. It addresses medical manufacturing companies, professionals in development, production, and quality assurance departments, and technical and medical students who are preparing themselves for a professional career in the medical technlogy industries.
Download or read book Minimum standards and recommendations for medical teams responding to highly infectious disease outbreaks written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-06-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infectious diseases with epidemic potential remain a significant and constant threat to the health and security of populations around the world, requiring robust health emergency preparedness, readiness and response systems and capacities at local and national levels. Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs), the EMT Initiative and its global network focus on establishing common quality standards and recommendations for medical teams to respond to health emergencies rapidly and effectively, as well as strengthening and supporting national capacities through strong collaboration and coordination. This publication defines minimum standards for the establishment of such critical capacities in a predictable and quality assured manner, and will enhance the interoperability between national, regional, and international capacities. This will contribute to the development and classification of respective specialized care teams (SCT) within the EMT framework and will provide guidance to member states, ministries of health, national and international EMTs and other key stakeholders to develop capacities and trainings, preparing for, or responding to outbreaks of highly infectious diseases.
Download or read book Managing Microorganisms written by David Smith and published by CABI. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant portion of basic and applied life science research requires microorganisms as study specimens. Managing Microorganisms aims to be the standard reference for anyone who works with microorganisms, primarily bacteria and fungi. It is applicable to researchers who maintain their own collections of strains, and those who use one of the many public service culture collections. Managing Microorganisms is an essential reference for anyone working with microorganisms and culture collections. In addition, it will be of great use for academic researchers and students in applied life sciences, especially those who are involved in sourcing and maintaining reference strains, whilst it also will provide a useful guide for consultants, biotechnologists and other members of bioindustry.
Download or read book Laboratory biosecurity guidance written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-06-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Laboratory biosecurity guidance is a revision of the first edition of the WHO Biorisk management - Laboratory biosecurity guidance, 2006. As introduced in the 4th edition of the Laboratory biosafety manual (LBM4), the novel risk- and evidence-based approach is applied for biosecurity in this guidance. The guidance is intended to help researchers, biosafety/biosecurity officers and other laboratory personnel properly assess and manage risks inherent to high-consequence research. Furthermore, it contains a template for biosecurity risk assessment in the laboratory to prevent theft, misuse and unauthorized access to biological material, and also includes a two-tier approach for national oversight of biological risk management as well as a hybrid approach with risk- and list-based elements to regulate high-consequence material.
Download or read book The Challenge of Tuberculosis in the 21st Century written by Alberto L. García-Basteiro and published by European Respiratory Society. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed key developments in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis. Alongside this, and running in direct opposition to this progress, was the COVID-19 pandemic, which had an unprecedented detrimental effect on tuberculosis control and the achievement of targets set by the End TB Strategy. This timely and important Monograph provides a crucial update on recent changes, developments and setbacks in the field, and calls for a re-commitment to the achievement of the End TB Strategy and Sustainable Development Goals. Written by authors from across the world, the Monograph covers: diagnosis; advances in treatment; prevention; and tuberculosis control challenges in different populations and contexts.
Download or read book Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods Model written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare Settings written by Edward Purssell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare Settings, a team of distinguished researchers deliver an accessible and authoritative introduction to infection control and prevention in hospital and community settings. This is a key resource as professionals deal with the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and require the latest and most up-to-date information. Central topics are discussed at the individual and population levels, with direct links to lessons learned throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The book is written from an evidence-based perspective that utilises modern approaches, reflecting current decision making methods like GRADE and WHO Evidence to Decision Frameworks. Readers will also find: A thorough introduction to the chain of infection and the main groups of micro-organisms causing infection Comprehensive explorations of the application of evidence-based practice principles to infection prevention and control Practical discussions of immunity, microbiology laboratories, antimicrobial drugs, and policies and protocols for infection prevention and control The role of epidemiology and public health in the prevention and control of infectious disease Perfect for student nurses and students of allied health professions, Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare Settings will also benefit practitioners and managers in the health services seeking to update their knowledge of infection control and prevention in healthcare settings.
Download or read book Managing epidemics key facts about major deadly diseases written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epidemics and pandemics of infectious diseases are occurring more often, and spreading faster and further than ever, in many different regions of the world. The background factors of this threat are biological, environmental and lifestyle changes, among others. A potentially fatal combination of newly-discovered diseases, and the re-emergence of many long-established ones, demands urgent responses in all countries. Planning and preparation for epidemic prevention and control are essential. The purpose of the Managing epidemics handbook is to provide expert guidance on those response. Building on the first edition, the second edition provides concise and basic up-to-date knowledge with which World Health Organization country representatives can advise Ministries of Health to respond effectively and rapidly at the very start of an outbreak. Part I of the handbook provides insights on epidemics of the 21st century and offers context on the upsurge of recent epidemics. Part II has been updated and offers 10 key facts about 19 deadly diseases including tips on the interventions required to respond. Part III presents various Tool boxes that summarize guidance on several important topics. The handbook focuses on practical and indispensable things to know about infectious diseases that are most important for national, political and operational decision-makers; it also links readers to more exhaustive WHO guidance.
Download or read book The CMS Hospital Conditions of Participation and Interpretive Guidelines written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to reprinting the PDF of the CMS CoPs and Interpretive Guidelines, we include key Survey and Certification memos that CMS has issued to announced changes to the emergency preparedness final rule, fire and smoke door annual testing requirements, survey team composition and investigation of complaints, infection control screenings, and legionella risk reduction.
