Events

The New England Biological Safety Association (NEBSA) is pleased to invite you to our upcoming free lunchtime webinar and to announce the opening of the Call for Presentations for this...

Free Webinar hosted by SelectScience and sponsored by NuAire How to Perform a Risk Assessment and Choose a Biosafety Cabinet This webinar will introduce the concept of risk assessment and...

ChABSA is inviting you to join our Annual Symposium scheduled for Wednesday June 4, 2025. Our one-day event features an amazing speaker line up for keynote, technical, and panel talks...

Southern Biosafety Association Summer Symposium 2025 Navigating Biosafety in the Modern Era Wednesday June 25, 2025 Virtual (Zoom) 1 CM Point   8:00-8:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks Zack Becker, MPH,...

Join us at the 21st Annual MABioN Biosafety Hybrid Symposium! August 4-6, 2025 at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.  Network with biosafety professionals in the Midwest area and learn and share information about biosafety. Attend in-person or remotely! Monday morning – Pre-symposium course on biological shipping and USDA shared permit accounts, with heavy focus on...

"Preventing and Treating Biological Exposures: An Occupational Health Colloquium” taking place in Boston, MA from September 8-11, 2025. The Colloquium aims to gather professionals from the fields of biosafety and occupational health, bringing together the people who know with the people who need to know. This year, we will discuss three new publications, including ACOEM...

  Biological Safety Officer SEPTEMBER 22 - 24, 2025 About The Course We are dedicated to fostering innovative education that empowers professionals to excel in the field of biological safety. This comprehensive course is rooted in the Biosafety Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratory (6th Edition, June 2020) and the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant and...

  Registration now open! 2025 Canadian Biosafety Symposium September 23-25, 2025 Ottawa, Ontario   The Canadian Association for Biological Safety/L’Association Canadienne pour la Sécurité Biologique (CABS-ACSB) and BioSAFE Engineering are happy to present the 2025 Canadian Biosafety Symposium! Join us in person in Ottawa, Ontario from September 23-25, 2025 for Canada’s annual event for biosafety professionals and personnel involved in...

Monday, October 20, 2025 - Friday, October 24, 2025          About the Course The Environmental Health & Safety Academy is a unique week-long course designed to provide you with the general skills needed to identify, evaluate, and control workplace hazards, particularly those found in academic settings. This is the twenty-eighth time the course has been offered. Now we...

Biosafety Administrators Association (BSAA) has announced an official joint listening session with NIH OSP also scheduled on December 4, 2025 @ 1:00 PM ET. We encourage you to join the BSAA session: Program Title: Listening Session with the NIH Office of Science Policy (OSP): Modernization of the Biosafety Regulations - the link to the registration...

We’ve developed a set of brief documents to support BSOs and IBC administrators in talking with their Committees and institutional leadership about submitting institutional comments to the NIH Biosafety Modernization Initiative. I’m sharing these resources here in case they are helpful as you prepare your own discussions and feedback. We are also organizing a peer-to-peer...

Region 4 (SBA region) Listening Session for Modernizing and Strengthening Oversight of Biosafety has been scheduled for January 29, 2026. (see: https://osp.od.nih.gov/policies/biosafety-and-biosecurity-policy#tab2/ for details) Please encourage others at your institutions to provide comments, at these sessions or in writing.  The comment form online is available at:                                                                                         https://osp.od.nih.gov/policies/biosafety-and-biosecurity-policy#tab2/   In addition, all other regional listing...