Studies on developing a safe-management standard system for Chinese biosafety laboratories

Abstract Standardization management is one of the key prerequisites to guarantee the effective and safe functioning of high-level biosafety laboratories. Since the outbreak of SARS, increasing numbers of biosafety laboratory levels have been established in China. Therefore, creating a specialized and standardized management system for biosafety laboratories has become necessary and is a core concern. This paper describes the current status of Chinese standards for biosafety management and analyzes its relation to other laboratory biosafety standard systems in developed countries. Based on the analysis on developing a biosafety laboratory, a laboratory biosafety standard system framework was developed, and a policy environment for building the system was suggested with the aim of promoting the promulgation of specific biosafety standards and securing the effective functioning of high-level biosafety laboratories.