Benjamin Fontes, MPH, CBSP
ABSA President
Benjamin Fontes, MPH, CBSP
ABSA President
Welcome to one of the world's preeminent resources for biological safety! The American Biological Safety Association (ABSA) has members worldwide engaged in the scientific discipline devoted to protecting our most valuable resources from harm from known and potential biohazards. Please navigate our website and explore the vast resources that help provide biosafety practitioners with timely and relevant information.
Explore the many biosafety educational opportunities that we offer, including our annual biosafety conference that attracts members from around the world, our highly rated week long Principles and Practices of Biosafety class, and our Spring Seminar biosafety training series and Certification Review class. We are also extending our online training programs to offer training opportunities for those who can't attend our annual events.
Many of our members and committees have been involved in the review and discussion of the proposed domestic biosafety regulations with our legislative partners. We have also asked our international members how ABSA can improve our services to biosafety professionals abroad. We look forward to this expansion of our services.
Consider becoming a member of ABSA to obtain our quarterly Applied Biosafety Journal, get eligible for one of two professional biosafety credentialing programs (RBP/CBSP), and for access to the ABSA Mentoring program.
ABSA Activities Report presented at the June 2010 IFBA Conference(MS Word 436KB)
ABSA Council Summary of Spring 2010 Membership Survey(PDF 192KB)
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