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High-Containment Laboratory Oversight Committee

Charge

The HCLOC is advisory to the Chancellor through the Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation, Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences, and Vice Chancellor for Resource Management & Planning. The primary charge to the Committee is to oversee all matters relating to the safe design and use of high-containment laboratory space.

It is the HCLOC’s responsibility to coordinate laboratory operations including:

  1. Review all plans for work conducted in high-containment laboratory facilities
  2. Recommend strategies and guidance for ensuring personnel safety and security among individuals with access to Risk Group 3 biological agents and toxins (RG3), and public safety
  3. Advise, plan and review operations and maintenance
  4. Review an annual high-containment facility risk assessment as advised in the ANSI/ASSE Z9.14 2014 BSL-3/ABSL-3 laboratory performance verification standard
  5. Review and advise on campus plans for high-containment facility permanent equipment repairs, replacement, retrofits, upgrades and design of new facilities
  6. Recommend strategies for funding and sustaining current and new high-containment facilities and effective management programs.
  7. Address any other issues as directed by the UCOP High-Containment Oversight Committee.

Committee Members

See the current member list.

Questions?

Contact Marie-Pierre Murry, (858) 534-6821.