a) Annual biosafety training (Act 678) – Biorisk Management: Biological Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment, Biological Waste Management and Contained Use.
b) Safe Use Training of the Biosafety Cabinet (BSC).
c) Safe Use Training of the Autoclave.

What is Autoclave and Function:

An autoclave is a machine that uses steam under pressure to kill harmful bacteria, viruses, fungi, and spores on items that are placed inside a pressure vessel. The items are heated to an appropriate sterilization temperature for a given amount of time.

Biosafety Cabinet Recertification

What is a BSC:

A biosafety cabinet (BSC), also called a biological safety cabinet, is an enclosed, ventilated laboratory workspace for safely working with materials contaminated with (or potentially contaminated with) pathogens requiring a defined biosafety level.

A biological safety cabinet (BSC) is a primary engineering control used to protect personnel against biohazardous or infectious agents and to help maintain the integrity of materials being worked on as it filters both the inflow and exhaust air.

BSC Certification Team

Certification of engineering controls is part of compliance with Act 678. IBC-UTM saw the need for sustainable recertification of BSCs in UTM. In 2018, Mr. Nazirul Mubin bin Normansah became an NSF-certified BSC Field Certifier after attending the NSF Biosafety Cabinet Basic Accreditation Program, a training co-organised by IFBA and A-PBA in support of Canada Global Affairs. Currently, there are only five approved BSC field certifiers in Malaysia. Mr. Nazirul is one of them and the only one from IPT. Thanks to UTM supports, the team is responsible for the annual recertification of all BSCs in UTM. This team only cover biosafety cabinet class A2. The team is now expanding for continued support to UTM’s safety compliance.

Request a service: Link (IT team to create google form under biosafety@utm.my)
For more information, contact Nazirul Mubin bin Normansah (nazirul@utm.my)

IBC UTM Biowaste Management tasks are to ensure treatment and disposal of biological wastes are done in a manner that is safe and in compliance with:

a) Malaysia Laboratory Biosafety and Biosecurity Policy and Guideline (2015).
b) Biosafety Guidelines: Contained Use Activity of Living Modified Organism (2010).
c) Manual Pengurusan Sisa Terkawal (Environmental Operations Control KTSP/SOP/446‐09).

For more information, contact Noor Hidayah binti Md Nooh (noorhidayah_mn@utm.my)

• Biowaste Management Workflow
• Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Biological Waste Management
• Biowaste Segregation, Labelling_Treatment Workflow
• Solid Biowaste Packaging Workflow
• Decontamination Procedure (Treatment) For Large Volume Liquid Biology Wastes by Autoclave
• Biowaste Disposal Label No.9 Infectious Substances waste
• Biowaste Disposal Form
• Laboratory Biohazard Waste Management Checklist
• Proses Kerja dan Carta Alir Pengurusan Sisa Biologi

Layout of BSL 1

Layout of BSL 2

Biosafety Level in UTM: BSL 1 & BSL 2

Refer form :

1) BSL1-Inspection checklist laboratory (link)
2) BSL2-Inspection checklist laboratory (link)

Jabatan Biokeselamatan – Contained Use Notice – workflow link

Form E – Notification for Contained Use – application form link