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Creator: NETEC
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2025-01-29
Description: This resource is a comprehensive tool designed to assist healthcare facilities in evaluating their waste management protocols for special pathogens, including Category A infectious substances. The tracer provides a structured worksheet to guide… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Waste
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2024-11-01
Description: The safest method of handling waste contaminated with a Category A infectious substance would be to render the agent no longer infectious through a process that inactivates the agent, typically by incineration or steam sterilization in an autoclave… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2024-11-06
Description: This guidance document includes information on handling Marburg virus waste, and links to other relevant resources.Marburg virus is a Category A pathogen and Select Agent. Any waste potentially contaminated with Marburg virus, including laboratory… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2024-08-20
Description: This document provides essential guidance for managing Category A waste in special pathogen isolation scenarios. It outlines key waste management objectives including effective packaging securement of packaged waste and engaging relevant partners to… -
Creator: University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Online Course
Date Last Updated: 2021-11-24
Description: This two-day course is appropriate for those responsible for packing, marking, labeling and documentation of shipments for the transportation of Division 6.2 infectious substance and dry ice. The procedures and practices highlighted in this training… -
Creator: Association of Public Health Laboratories
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2021
Description: APHL’s Sentinel Laboratory Partnerships and Outreach Subcommittee of the Public Health Preparedness and Response Committee developed this Packaging and Shipping Evaluation Tool to provide a standardized resource for public health laboratories (PHLs)… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Training and Exercises
Item Type: Checklist
Date Last Updated: 2022-10-10
Description: Biocontainment Unit Working Group Core Competency / Competencies chart diagram. -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Training and Exercises
Item Type: Checklist
Date Last Updated: 2022-10-10
Description: This document serves as a training and education tool for centers who are interested in becoming or are currently a special pathogens treatment center to frame training plans. By utilizing the recommendations, curriculum can be developed to include… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Laboratory
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2024-12-20
Description: This guide, printable flyer, provides laboratory resources related to Marburg Virus Disease (MVD). This is a part of a series of one-page resource guides for laboratorians. Marburg virus disease is a rare but severe hemorrhagic fever which affects… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2021-07-21
Description: The United States recently had a case of Mpox virus diagnosed in a patient in Dallas County, Texas. Organizations in the U.S. now preparing for the potential need to handle patients under investigation or patients with the Mpox virus must also…
