Module 2.Risk management and prevention measures, practices and models of work-related diseases in existing and emerging sectors using hazardous substances and chemicals including explosive, environmentally hazardous, toxic, carcinogenic, etc. /free/

Ways to identify biological hazards in the workplace are:

• biological hazards occurring as a by-product or a contaminant of work processes;
• environmental biological hazards, including animal and insect transmission (zoonoses);
• communicable diseases, brought in from outside the organisation, transmitted from person to person;
• deliberate working with biological hazards.

Finding further information

Under certain circumstances biological hazards can survive and often breed in equipment or on surfaces as part of work activities and processes. If a biological hazard is known or suspected in this way, it’s important to find information on:

• the specific characteristics;
• the hazards it poses;
• routes of transmission;
• control, and
• if any emergency arrangement is required.