About Sharon Webster

As a Chartered member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and a Member of the Institute of Safety in Technology and Research, Sharon Webster has significant in depth knowledge of Health and Safety systems which are relevant to working at high biological containment. Sharon was the Chair of the Biosafety Steering Group of ISTR for 4 years.

This experience has been gained and developed over 20 years and includes periods of time spent as Head of Health and Safety at the Institute for Animal Health, Head of Risk & Assurance and Biological Safety Officer at The Pirbright Institute and as a Specialist Inspector within the Biological Agents Unit of the Health and Safety Executive. She has also worked with BBSRC supporting all of their Institutes.

Prior to this Sharon worked at the Health Protection Agency (HPA), Porton Down, initially as a scientist working predominately at Containment Level 3 (CL3) then as a Safety Advisor  where she took the role of Biological Safety Officer (BSO) and was responsible for the Research Division which included the high containment animal facility and the TSE, CL3 and CL4 facilities.