{"id":3436,"date":"2022-08-31T15:16:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T07:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/?page_id=3436"},"modified":"2022-11-23T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T03:59:04","slug":"physical-containment-facilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/hazardous-materials\/biological\/physical-containment-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical Containment Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Curtin has several biological Physical Containment (PC) facilities used to contain its biohazardous microbiological\/plant\/animal research and teaching activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have a number of research facilities that are&nbsp;Certified&nbsp;by the Office of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ogtr.gov.au\/\">Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR)<\/a>, in which teaching and research with genetically modified organisms can be undertaken. There are PC2 and PC3 level lab, plant, and animal facilities available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have a number of research facilities that are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.agriculture.gov.au\/import\/arrival\/arrangements\/qap\">Approved Arrangements by the Department of Agriculture,<\/a>\u00a0in which teaching and research with quarantined biosecurity materials can be undertaken. There are BC1, BC2 and BC3 level microbiological laboratory and plant facilities available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To access any of these facilities,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/search.curtin.edu.au\/s\/search.html?query=Bernadette+Bradley&amp;collection=curtin-university&amp;clive=curtin-staff-profiles&amp;form=staff&amp;type=Search&amp;facetScope=\">contact your Biosafety Partner<\/a>, who will help you to contact the Facility Manager in charge of an appropriate facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alternatively, you can apply to have your current facility Certified or Approved by contacting&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/search.curtin.edu.au\/s\/search.html?query=Bernadette+Bradley&amp;collection=curtin-university&amp;clive=curtin-staff-profiles&amp;form=staff&amp;type=Search&amp;facetScope=\">your Biosafety Partner.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtin has several biological Physical Containment (PC) facilities used to contain its biohazardous microbiological\/plant\/animal research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"parent":3419,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3436\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/healthandsafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}