A hazardous material worker sprays his colleagues after searching for anthrax at Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC. (Photograph by Alex Wong/Getty Images)From Popular Mechanics:
In an effort to safeguard labs working with dangerous biological materials, the U.S. government is looking at ways to ensure that the workers themselves do not pose a threat. In early April the advisory board tasked with boosting security measures will hold a meeting at a hotel near an Army base to solicit opinions from experts on the effect these steps might have on research into treating and preventing deadly infectious diseases.
The risk posed by an "inside man" with access to deadly diseases has been at the forefront of the scientific research community since the FBI traced the anthrax attacks of 2001 to Bruce Ivins, a researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in Maryland; he killed himself in 2008, before being charged.
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My Comment: I am very skeptical that this will work. There are too many in the industry .... both in the public and private industries.