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health and safety programs. Several key terms and concepts are
used in risk assessment, including the following (NRC 1983;
Osborne and others 1995):
Hazard: A source of risk, such as a substance or action that can
cause harm.
Exposure: Contact with a hazard in such a manner that
effective transmission of the agent or harmful effects of the
agent may occur.
Dose-response relationship: A relationship in which a change
in amount, intensity, or duration of exposure is associated with
a change in the risk of the outcome.
Risk: The combination of the likelihood (probability) and
magnitude (severity) of an adverse event.
Uncertainty: An instance of limited knowledge, false
assumption, or statistical variability that contributes to a
statement of confidence in conclusions drawn from a risk
assessment.
Risk management: The process of formulating and
implementing a course of action to mitigate hazards
determined by risk assessment to be important.
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TABLE 5-1
Assessment of Risk Associated with Animal-Related Research.
Research involving awake-behaving nonhuman primates requires
special consideration during risk assessment. Nonhuman primates
can weigh more than human beings, have considerable speed,
strength, and manual dexterity, and can harbor zoonotic infectious
agents. They can inflict serious physical injury and cause
life-threatening illnesses to persons around them. One way to
reduce the risks from these animals is by training them to perform
certain movements. For example, macaques and squirrel monkeys
can be trained to move voluntarily from the home cage into a
restraint chair (Ator 1991). Another consideration when working
with awake-behaving nonhuman primates is that they are often
transported to testing facilities (e.g., laboratories or imaging
facilities) outside of the animal quarters. The animals may traverse
common use corridors and elevators, potentially exposing
individuals not involved in the animal care program. Individuals in
other areas of the building may also be exposed if the air exhausted
from a testing facility is recycled into other building areas. For these
reasons, procedures involving awake-behaving nonhuman primates
must undergo additional hazard identification and risk assessment.
It is also important that risk assessment of noninfectious hazards
involve a qualified health and safety professional with training in
the chemical and ergonomic hazards associated with their use.
More detailed guidelines for working with awake-behaving NHP are
forthcoming from the ILAR Committee on Guidelines for the Care
and Use of Mammals in Neuroscience and Behavioral Research
(NRC In press). This report will identify common research themes
in contemporary neuroscience and behavioral research based on
input from neuroscience and behavioral researchers most familiar
with current standards of practice and veterinarian specialists in
laboratory animal medicine; provide collective, professional
judgment in applying current animal care and best use practices to
procedures in these areas of research; provide information about
new scientific and responsible use developments used to maintain
animals during these experiments; and serve as an informational
resource to assist researchers, laboratory animal medicine
veterinarians and IACUC members in the interpretation and
implementation of current standards of practice and promote the
training of animal care specialists in this area.
Hazard Identification
The identification of hazards is typically a qualitative process, most
often based on observation, experience, published reports and
professional judgment. Hazards in the work environment can be
identified by safety specialists using institutional logs, workercompensation reports, and other information sources (NRC 1997)
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TABLE 5-2
Summary of Recommended Animal Biosafety Levels (ABSLs) for
Activities in Which Experimentally or Naturally Infected Vertebrate
Animals Are Used.
However, these federal guidelines do not address noninfectious
laboratory hazards, nor were they intended to guide safety
considerations outside the laboratory per se, such as in outdoor
holding enclosures for nonhuman primates or in settings involving
their wild capture and transportation. Thus, OHSPs for persons
working with nonhuman primates in many situations must be
based on general workplace safety considerations and analogous
hazards in other industries without the benefit of the specific
algorithms found in the national laboratory biosafety guidelines.
Important characteristics of most well-known infectious agents that
are useful in risk assessment are readily found in Chapter 3 and the
references cited at the end of this report. Such information is
usually based on medical surveillance and epidemiologic studies
and grounded in laboratory investigations of the agents themselves.
Many agents known to have caused laboratory-acquired infections
are listed in Section VII of Biosafety in Microbiological and
Biomedical Laboratories (CDC-NIH 1999). The following
characteristics predict risk, but the characteristics considered as a
whole are more important than any one of them individually.
Pathogenicity
Stability in the environment
Infectious dose
Concentration in specimens or in the environment
Origin (host, geographic location, or type of source)
Route of transmission
Availability of data from animal studies
Availability of effective prophylaxis or therapy
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