CDC Updates Biosafety Cabinet Virtual Reality Training Course

COLA has extended its partnership with the CDC through the Laboratory Communicators’ Network (LCN) in the Division of Laboratory Systems (DLS) to provide additional updates and resources to our laboratories and affiliates. Below is information from the most recent LCN message.

You can learn about the updated CDC online virtual reality (VR) training course, “The LabTrainingVR: Biosafety Cabinet (BSC) Edition,” on the CDC Laboratory Training Website at https://www.cdc.gov/labtraining/training-courses/vr/labtrainingVR_BSC.html. 

LabTrainingVR: Biosafety Cabinet Edition

Description

This course enables learners to apply knowledge and practice setting up a biosafety cabinet (also known as a biological safety cabinet, or BSC) in a virtual laboratory. Step into a virtual laboratory and learn how to work safely in the first-ever Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) virtual reality (VR) laboratory training course.

This course is developed for laboratory professionals and supplements the existing CDC eLearning course on the same topic.” to: “This course is developed for laboratory professionals and supplements the existing CDC eLearning course “Fundamentals of Working Safely in a Biological Safety Cabinet.