Mintage Journal of Pharmaceutical and Medical Sciences (ISSN: 2320-3315)

Author(s): NAZIA CHAUDRY, *SANIA ARIF, SYEDA QUDSIA, SAMINA UROOJ

Objective:  Biosafety  defines  a  set  of  rules  that  should  be  followed  for  the  "containment"  of  biological  agents,  to  protect  theindividual  lab  worker  and  the  environment  from  its potential hazard.Methods:    We  conducted  a  cross-sectional,  exploratory  kind  of  study  to  assess  the  level  of  awareness  among  the  undergraduate  and  postgraduate  students  of  anacademic institute in Islamabad and to see whether they differed in this awareness on the basis of their maturity and lab work experience. A total of 136 subjects were selected on the basis convenience sampling. Results: In most of the individual aspects, we could not detect a significant difference in knowledge about biosafety precautions in our two groups, but in overall awareness levels, we found out that postgraduate candidates were significantly better, which can be attributed to their higher percentage having present or past labexperience.Conclusion: The study highlights the need to have awareness sessions for all batches and for compulsory biosafety courses as early as possible in their course works to make their lab experience safe.