Biosafety level or BSL is a set of biocontainment precautions required to keep the biohazards under control.

Biosafety Level 2 (BSL-2) is suitable for work involving agents that pose moderate hazards to personnel and the environment. Generally, agents handled at this level have vaccines or therapies readily available and are not an inhalation exposure risk under routine handling conditions.

Because of these features, a standard lab space with procedures and equipment in place that minimize the potential for personnel to have dermal or mucous membrane contact with contaminated materials is the basis of this biosafety level.

Containment emphasis is on safe sharps handling techniques and minimizing the spread of contamination to lab surfaces, including the use of a biological safety cabinet (BSC) for aerosol- generating procedures.

Although newly constructed BSL-2 labs are expected to have inward airflow, escape of contaminants outside of a BSL-2 lab will most likely result from a break in defined work practices.

At I3T we have advanced BSL 2 facilities which suitable for work involving agents of moderate potential hazard to personnel and the environment.