Training

"In company" training

Lab Safety Consulting can develops courses, technical days, seminars and any training activity that our clients need in the areas of biosafety, chemical safety, radiation protection and general safety in the laboratory. Training activities are carried out at the client's facilities and can range from theoretical contents to practical sessions and on aspects such as safety management, proper working practices, use and maintenance of facilities, equipment and personal protective equipment, waste management, emergency response, etc. 

LSC's training activites are designed to be funded by the Spanish State Foundation for Training for the Employment (FUNDAE).

LSC offers training activities such us:

• Course on safety and hygiene in laboratories: for laboratory users, 2-5 days, theoretical and practical content.
• Course on legal requirements and responsibilities in biosafety: for middle managers, group leaders and principal investigators, 1-2 days, theoretical and practical content.
• Course on the legal and technical foundations of the Biosafety Commissions: for members of the biosafety commissions, 1-2 days, theoretical and practical contents.

Biosafety Avanced Training Course

Lab Safety Consulting participates in various training activities in collaboration with other institutions. Among them, the Biosafety Advanced Training Course organized by LSC together with the Biosafety Services of the National Biotechnology Center (CSIC) and the Center for Molecular Biology "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM) stands out.

This is a pioneering course in Spain and has been designed to offer an advanced level of training in biosafety and biosecurity, collecting the skills and knowledge that biosafety professionals must have according to the UNE-CWA standard 16335: 2014 Competence of the biosafety professional. The course complies with the standard's requirements on the training specifications. It counts among its professors with experts in the field and is endorsed by the Spanish Biosafety Association (AEBioS). 

It is an eminently practical course with a timetable between theory and practice evenly distributed. Among the practical work, the course includes case studies to be solved by the students, laboratory practices and visits to  Biological Containment Levels (BCL) 1, 2 and 3 national reference facilities. The course is divided into a general module about laboratories, which includes biosafety and biosecurity aspects for BCL1, 2 and 3 facilities, and two optional specialization modules on facilities working with animals and plants. The course is completed with four specialization topics: clinical laboratories, transmissible spongiform diseases, gene therapy and drug manufacturing.

Consult all the information about registration process, timetable and programme below.

Course information

Previous editions:

2014: held from November 17th to December 5th 2014.

2015: held from October 19th to 30th 2015.

2016: held from October 3rd to 11th (General module) and from November 21st to 24th (Specialization modules) 2016.

2017: held from October 2nd to 10th (General module) and from November 20th to 23rd (Specialization modules) 2017. 

2018: held from 15 to 24 October (general module) and from 21 to 24 November (specialisation modules) 2018.

2019: held from 14 to 23 October (general module) and from 18 to 21 November (specialisation modules) 2019.

2022: held from 19 to 28 September (general module) and from 24 to 25 October and from 2 to 3 November (specialisation modules) 2022.

2023: held from 25 September to 4 October (general module) and from 27 to 30 November (specialisation modules) 2023.

2024: held from 30 September to 9 October (general module) and from 11 to 14 November (specialisation modules) 2024.