Biosafety Cabinet and Hood certifications
Annual, and first time,ÌýBiosafety Cabinet (BSC) and hood certifications are required every 12 months. You should not be using a BSC if it is not certified.
Schedule early, they can be booked out over a month sometimes.
To schedule an annual certification: Copy and paste, and answer, the below information into an email and send it to TSS atÌýALauritzen@techsafety.com
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I would like to request a certification of my BSC
- Lab contact person name:
- Lab contact person email address:
- Lab contact person phone number (lab phone is OK, or your cell):
- Location of BSC/Hood building:
- Location of BSC/Hood room #:
- BSC/Hood serial number:
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Somone in your lab will need to be present to let the TSS tech in at the scheduled time. Otherwise you may miss them and will still be charged.Ìý
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TSS performs the following services, all of which you will need to follow the above scheduling procedure, but explicitly request the service you want:
- Biosafety cabinet (BSC) certification: $185/certification only valid for CU Boulder labs
- Required annually
- Fume hood certification
- Required annually
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- When you need to move a hood
- You are inheriting a hood
- Your hood has contamination issues
- Compressed air/gas system testing
- Clean room certification and testing
- Airflow visualization for controlled environments
- Clean bench testing and maintenance
- Microbiological environment monitoring
- Radiation safety
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Other venders that can certify your BSC
The following businesses provide services in the Denver metro area. Listing here does not constitute a recommendation, nor does it assure that the vendor technicians are trained in performing field certification to NSF/ANSI Standard 49, Annex F, or are accredited to NSF Standard 49, unless specifically noted in their documenation.
- *Technical Safety Services, Inc. (TSS), (720) 981-4965, 251 Violet Street, Unit 110, Golden, CO 80401
- ENV Services, (800) 345-6094
- Hospital Shared Services, (303) 603-3000, 900 South Broadway, Suite 100, Denver, CO 80209
- SERCOM, (303) 573-0399, 4965 Iris Street, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 1
*TSS Field Service Technicians are accredited to NSF-49 and trained in performing field certification to NSF/ANSI Standard 49, Annex F.