As we come out of lockdown and think about restarting our facilities, it is apparent that many of us will require new protocols to determine how we are going to successfully deliver high quality analyses and training for our customers and students. We are not presenting specific guidelines here as it is inevitable that individual laboratories will have very different issues regarding access and building management.Here we present links to some resources to assist in drawing up our new SOPs.

UK Government Guidelines for work in research labs

(General guidelines from BEIS)

Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities ( ABRF ) Core Facility Ramp-UpInformation (pdf)

(this contains useful generic considerations)

German Bioimaging recommendations for resuming operations (pdf)

(a thorough list of recommendations endorsed by DGE (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektronenmikroskopie)

ECDC guidance for environmental cleaning of non healthcare facilities expoed to Sars-CoV-2 (pdf)

(recent guidance from ECDC on cleaning methods)

CDC infection control - airborne contaminant removal

(an older document but has a useful table suggesting how long it may take for air handling systems to remove airborne contaminants

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