National Research Safety Headquarter is responsible for the evaluation and management of biological safety under the act for the establishment of a safe laboratory environment and the transboundary movement, etc. of the Living Modified Organisms Act. Further, the center contributes to the prevention of accidents at laboratories and improvement of R&D productivity, by establishing a professional and systematic safety management system within domestic laboratories.
Research Areas
Field inspection in LMO research facilities
Improve LMO laws and institutions and develop policies
Provide education and training on LMO safety
Establishment and operation of online education system
Information system for LMO that was developed for test and research purpose
Field inspection of laboratory safety management
Develop safety management policies and operate support policies
Conduct laboratory safety education & training
National Research Safety Information System
Head
Investigator
Name
Position
Tel / Email
Young-Hee Roh
Manager
/
Tel
043-240-6400
Email
rohyh@kribb.re.kr
Achievements
LMO policy
Promoted a positive administration to cope with administrative burden of research site before the law revision
Revised the integrated notification for the LMO Act, to reflect changes in the recent research environment
Published four guidelines for safety management of Experiment/ Research LMO(animals, plants, insects, and fishes)
Published a compilation of risk review and cell line guidelines for biological risk management
Published a handbook on LMO safety management
LMO education and training
Implemented LMO safety education for experiments/research (130 training sessions completed by 26,690 people, including online course sessions)
Developed and utilized LMO online education contents (developed 26 online classes both in Korean and English)
Development and dissemination of LMO standard teaching materials and plans (developed 6 types)
Published a brochure for LMO
LMO inspection
Conducted filed inspection of LMO research organizations (169 organizations, 550 facilities) and safety management status inspections (543 organizations, 4,363 facilities)
Published a self-inspection manual for LMO research facilities (Korean/English)
Published biosafety accident case and contingency action manual
Established and operated the LMO-specialized system
Used an all-number inspection system to check the implementation of the LMO Act, LMO expert review system, LMO research facility, online inspection system, and field inspection application
Laboratory policy
Revision of Act on the Establishment of Safe Laboratory Environment for the Mitigation of Safety Regulations in the Laboratory(Jan. 2020)
Operation of a system for certifying exemplary laboratories in safety management (obtained certification : 138 laboratory)
Promotion of projects to create and improve safe laboratory environments(930 million Korean won for 30 organizations)
Publish guidelines for handling and managing major equipment for safe use of research equipment and safety management guidelines for electrochemical fields with high risk of accidents
Laboratory education and training
Conducted laboratory safety education and training for those who demanded it to be carried out (classroom education: 110 times for 9,331 audiences, online education for 456,511 people)
Enhancement of the education program for the laboratory safety management committee through the introduction of the role of the committee and incident response education
Development of On-line educational content customized for the safety-weak classes(new researchers, etc.)and medical researchers
Laboratory inspection
Approval of National Approval Statistics from the Statistics Korea about the survey on the status of laboratory safety management(Approval No.127015, 2019)
Conducted field inspection to assess laboratory safety management (500 organizations /2,078 sample inspection laboratories)
Managed laboratory accident statistics (317 cases, as of ’19), conducted 21 accident investigations (8 field inspections, 13 document investigations)
Publish guidelines for accident cases that reflect major accident cases by field of research
연구성과
LMO 및 일반 연구시설 안전성 확보
「연구실 안전환경 조성에 관한 법률」, 「유전자변형생물체의 국가 간 이동 등에 관한 법률」개정 지원
