Pre conference course H - Evaluating and Embedding Biosafety Skills: From Compliance towards Competence.
Instructors
Adam Stevenson (UK) and Heidi Auerswald (IT)
This highly interactive one-day course equips biosafety professionals, laboratory supervisors, and institutional trainers with practical tools to evaluate, strengthen, and embed biosafety competence beyond traditional tick-box training models. Participants will unpack the distinctions between, training, compliance, and competence, and work through hands-on methods to translate those insights into practice. Using a step-by-step improvement plan, each participant will identify key challenges in their home institution and design a 3-month roadmap for upgrading how competence is assessed, reinforced, and sustained. The course draws from ISO 35001, CWA 16335, ISO/TS 5441, and WHO LBM4, and links theoretical frameworks to actionable strategies: job safety analysis, SOP analysis, job specification evaluation, behavioural reinforcement, observation checklists, and building psychological safety. The course is especially valuable for institutions looking to strengthen internal competency frameworks, onboarding, or coaching programs.
BMCC
8000 BRUGES
The Bruges Meeting & Convention Centre (BMCC) is the ideal venue for special events, conferences and trade fairs. Its outstanding location, within walking distance of numerous Bruges hotels and world-famous attractions, meets all the needs of a modern event and conference location. The ground floor — with a total area of 4,500m² — is the ideal space for trade fairs, larger public events and even concerts. The upper floors are designed for meetings and conferences for 10 to 516 participants. The design of this unique building provides all that you need: a plenary room with a retractable seating platform for 516 people, a spacious foyer, poster areas, 12 breakout rooms and a unique space, The View on the top floor with a beautiful view of Bruges city centre.
Hotels in Bruges
8000 BRUGGE
We have hotels in different classes near or in the city center and near the conference center
- IBIS budget hotel * (1,2 km)
- IBIS Style Brugge cenrum *** (1,1 km)
- Hotel Maraboe *** (280 m)
- Hotel 't Putje ***(400m)
- Crown Plaza Brugge**** (1,1 km)
- Radisson Blue hotel *** (1,2 km)
- NH Hotel **** (200 m)
- Hotel le Bois de Bruges **** (150 m)