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Radiation Protection and Biosafety

Head of Service:
Fernando Usera Mena
Radiation Protection and Biosafety
Supervisor:
Sonia Calvo Ladrero
Personnel:
Jessica Gaspar Navarro
Aránzazu de la Encina Valencia



TASKS AND SERVICES
Risk assessment, acquisition of safety equipment and edition of procedures:
  • Evaluations, previous and periodic, of biological, chemical and radiological risk.
  • Design of labs and other facilities in which these risks may exist.
  • Management of the acquisition of radioisotopes and means, equipment and instruments of prevention and protection.
  • Issuing of the CNB Basic Guide, the Safety & Health CNB Manual, and specific associated procedures.
  • Handling and administration of reports and documents related with start-up procedures or operating conditions legally required.
Management of hazardous waste:
  • Managing the production and conditioning of biosanitary, toxic and radioactive waste at the production sources.
  • Internal handling and final storage up to the transfer to an authorized company of waste management.
  • Controlled disposal of disclassified radioactive waste.
Operating surveillance:
  • Classifying and signalling of risky areas and labs.
  • Control of the safety & health rules accomplishment .
  • Control of the operation and use of the facilities, means and instruments of prevention, protection, sterilization and disinfection.
  • Tracking the internal records of operational surveillance, personnel control, hazardous waste management, incidents and accidents, etc.
  • Cooperation in the management of medical and dosimetric surveillance of the exposed personnel. Maintenance of medical and dosimetric reports of the exposed personnel.
  • Acting in incidents, accidents and emergency situations following the previously established procedures.
Training and information to the exposed personnel:
  • Safety and Health seminars for the personnel exposed to potential risk agents.
  • Permanent practical advising for the exposed personnel.


FACILITIES

The Service surveys the operational risks in all CNB labs and facilities and, moreover, directly operates the Biosafety level 3 Laboratory and the radioactive facility.
Facilities directly managed by the Service:

  1. Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory
  2. Radioactive Facility (Laboratory 350) Central Premises
Other supervised facilities: (pdf)

  1. Low risk radiological areas.
  2. Biological containment areas.


LINKS

Data bases with Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS):


http://www.fichasdeseguridad.com/
http://www.msdsonline.com/
http://hazard.com/msds/index.php
http://www.setonresourcecenter.com/MSDSs/
http://www.insht.es


Legislation on radiological protection, biological and chemical security, laboral risk prevention and special waste:

Legislation on Radiological Protection

RD 1836/1999 Reglamento instalaciones nucleares y radiactivas
RD  35/2008 modificación del RD 1836/1999
RD 783/2001 Protección sanitaria contra radiaciones ionizantes

Legislation on Biological Security

RD 664/1997 Agentes biológicos
RD 178/2004 Organismos modificados genéticamente

Legislation on Chemical Security

RD 374/2001 Agentes químicos
RD 665/1997 Agentes cancerígenos
RD 1124/2000 Modificación del RD 665/1997
RD 349/2003 Modificación del RD 665/1997

Legislation on Laboral Risk Prevention

Ley 31/1995 Prevención de riesgos laborales
Ley 54/2003 Modificación de la Ley 31/1995

Legislación on Special Waste

Ley 10/1998 de Residuos
Ley 5/2003 de Residuos de la Comunidad de Madrid
Decreto 83/1999 de Residuos biosanitarios y citotóxicos de la Comunidad de Madrid

Radiation protection, biosafety, chemical security and safety and health at work:

Spanish Nuclear Security Council
Centres for disease control and prevention
Occupational safety & health administration
Spanish National Institute for Health and Safety at Work
World Health Organization
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
International Labor Organization
European Biosafety Association
Spanish Society for Radiation Protection
World Organization for Animal Health
AENOR


Technical documents on Biosafety at our intranet:

Laboratory Biosafety Manual 3rd ed.
Manual de Bioseguridad en el Laboratorio

Guía de Transporte de Sustancias Infecciosas.
Guidance on Regulations for the Transport of Infectious Substances

Bioseguridad en Laboratorios de Microbiología y Medicina 4ª ed.
Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical laboratories. 5th ed.

Guía Técnica de Exposición a Agentes Biológicos

Cabinas de Seguridad Biológica (OMS)

Legislation on radiological protection, biosafety, chemical security, laboral risk prevention and special waste