Dates
2012 - April 16th (Start at 7:30 a.m.) through April 20th (End at 1:00 p.m.)
Place
The Johns Hopkins University Mt. Washington Conference Center, Baltimore, MD
The
33rd Year of the Annual Control of Biohazards Course will be held from Monday through Friday,
April 16 - 20, 2012
at The Johns Hopkins Conference Center, Baltimore, Maryland.
Registration limited to the first 60 applicants.
Course registration deadline
is
March 18, 2012.
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Attendees received a thousand page,
four inch binder with cited references to use when they return to their
workplace.
This website provides all of the information needed to learn about the course. There are links that let you know for whom the course is designed, how to register for the course, hotel registration, list of course subject material, specific course information for people attending the course, backgrounds of the course co-directors, and links to bioterrorism & biosafety-related sites including anthrax/ricin/smallpox information from ProMed.
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This course also qualifies for 4.5 RBP, CBSP
and ABIH Certification Maintenance Points and BCSP Continuance of Certification Points. Other Continuing Education Credits are available.
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The course is designed to provide in-depth information to participants with or without prior biosafety experience.
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Three-day versions of this course are also presented to governmental agencies, industry, and universities upon request.
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The Control of Biohazards Course is designed to
prepare individuals planning to take the
National Registry of
Certified Microbiologist Specialist Microbiologist SM(NRCM) in Biological Safety Microbiology exam.
The NRCM exam is available online. The application deadline is August 1,
2012. Qualified candidates may take the exam any day in the month of October.
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In response to the changing
workforce, the NRCM also has added another eligibility pathway for
Specialist Microbiologists in Biological Safety. Applicants with a
bachelor’s degree and ten years of full-time, post-baccalaureate work
experience within the past 15 years in the appropriate exam specialty area
are now eligible to apply. Previously, only applicants with microbiology
coursework were eligible. This change is reflective of how a growing number
of biological safety professionals are entering the field with on-the-job
training instead of a traditional academic background. In today’s economy,
it is an ideal time to seek the SM designation and remind your employer of
your expertise and value to them. Visit
www.microbiologycert.org to
apply!
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The Control of Biohazards Course will also appeal to people who are already certified SM (NRCM)s,
RBPs or CBSPs and want to renew their certification. Starting in 2014, ABSA
will be initiating a 5-year renewal of RBPs. This will give all RBPs
(including those awarded RBP before 2014) a minimum of 5 years to obtain the
required 40 credits to renew their RBP.
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The Control of Biohazards Course also provides biosafety practice and management information for individuals applying to the
American Biological Safety Association for
Registered Biological Safety Professional or Certified Biological Safety Professional titles."
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email:
biosafety@controlofbiohazards.com
