Our services
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Planning and Design
InnovaCorp has all the resources and experience to convert your vision of a new or retrofitted laboratory into a value engineered, certification worthy and sustainable facility. Our reference projects include research and public health BSL-2 and BSL-3 as well as ABSL-2, 3 laboratories. Speciality laboratories for work with carcinogens, toxins, genetically modified plants, engineered tissues and SPF breeding facilities complement the range of reference projects.
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Building & Commissioning and Certifications
Laboratories are complex and dynamic environments. Today's biomedical research and clinical laboratories have to adapt constantly to changing public health needs and epidemics. An example of this is the need for laboratories to adjust priorities to meet the challenges of emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases. In order to assure that changes, modifications and maintenance are undertaken promptly and in an appropriate and safe manner, all biological research and clinical laboratories must be built against the local and all international standards and guidelines and should be regularly tested and validated (certification) .
- At InnovaCorp we have a team of experienced facility international and local engineers & technician and certifiers who can built and certify against the local and all international standards and guidelines.
- InnovaCorp provides the necessary support that your facility and your laboratory operators and workers become fully compliant with international standards and guidelines such as the WHO Laboratory Biosafety Manual. Other Biosafety Guidance documents and standards are based on the same principles of facility-oriented and administrative control-oriented scope of certifications.
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Biorisk Management and Programs
To operate your facility efficiently and safely, we develop, help to implement and adopt the necessary documents, skills and competences. With our document templates, knowledge input and training you will become competent to manage your facility on your own. Our support includes workshops and hands-on exercises to develop, test and improve procedures and SOPs. On one hand, our approach is based on a combination of top-down information for the institutional management, IBC, BSO and facility supervisors and on the other hand, on bottom-up hands-on workshops for the BSO, Pls, laboratory workers and maintenance staff. Our services are delivered by experienced
international trainers and auditors who will ensure that your administrative risk controls will be compatible with any standard or guidance document such as CWA 15793, WHO LBM or CDC/NIH BMBL. As a result, your biorisk management system or program will ensure a high level of safety culture
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Safety Reviews and Audits
Safety audits can either focus on biosafety issues or cover the full occupational health and safety programs of a laboratory or an institute. Our approach ensures that your safety program is conformed with national or international safety requirements such as the Work place Safety and Health Act, the OHSAS 18001 standard or biosafety guidance documents including the WHO Laboratory Biosafety Manual and the CDC/NIH BMBL. The scope of a safety review can range from the whole institute biosafety management system down to the actual bench work. The latter is often referred to as a job hazard analysis which may be used to scrutinize and improve SOPs and bench operations.
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Training and Competence Development
Good laboratory design and up-to-date administrative risk controls are two necessary pillars for a safe work place, but are not sufficient in itself. The third pillar to reach your safety goals are skilled and competent staffs. In fact, staffs' skills and competences deserve more attention at many institutions. For example, staff can cause incidents, but they can also mitigate or even prevent them. With our international partners we have developed tailor-made and successful training programs to sufficiently improve staff performance. For instance, our partner hands-on workshop "Working Safely in the Biosafety Cabinet" was selected by ABSA and EBSA as a pre-conference workshop and numerous institutions have used this and other workshops we offer to enhance their workers' skills and competences.