Guidelines
The UKBRCN (formerly the UKNCC) collections operate to high standards and follow appropriate guidelines and quality management systems, see list below for further information:
- ABS MIRRI Manual
- Budapest treaty
- CABI Quality Management System
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- EU Directive 2000/54 on the protection of workers from risks related to exposure to biological agents at work
- EU General Data Protection
- EU Regulation 1946/2003 on transboundary movements of genetically modified organisms
- The World Federation for Culture Collections guidelines
- OECD Best Practice for Biological Resource Centres
- UKNCC Quality Policy & Quality Assurance
Safety
This important safety document highlights some of the health and safety issues that concern work in culture collections and presents the health and safety appendix from Smith and Onions 1994 along with some useful health and safety references.
