OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
CLSI (CLINICAL AND LABORATORY STANDARDS INSTITUTE)
CDC (CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION)
CAP (COLLEGE OF AMERICAN PATHOLOGISTS)
TJC (THE JOINT COMMISSION) (FORMERLY JCAHO) correct answers Safety Standards and Agencies
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OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
CLSI (CLINICAL AND LABORATORY STANDARDS INSTITUTE)
CDC (CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION)
CAP (COLLEGE OF AMERICAN PATHOLOGISTS)
TJC (THE JOINT COMMISSION) (FORMERLY JCAHO) correct answers Safety Standards
and Agencies
OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) correct answers within the U.S.
Department of Labor to set levels of safety and health for all workers in the United States.
CLSI (CLINICAL AND LABORATORY STANDARDS INSTITUTE) correct answers
Nonprofits educational organization that sets voluntary consensus standards for all areas of
clinical laboratories;
CDC: Center for Disease Control and Prevention correct answers Federal agency that carries out
mandated public health laws and reporting requirements.
Chemical Hygiene plan
Exposure control plan
Copy of MSDS correct answers All Clinical Lab should have:
Unsafe acts
Unsafe environmental conditions correct answers Two primary causes of accidents:
- Application of common sense
- Listen to the instructions
- A safety-focused attitude
- Good personal behavior
- Good housekeeping in all laboratory work and storage areas
- Continual practice of good laboratory technique correct answers Safety begins with the
recognition of hazards and is achieved through the ff:
1. Practice hand hygiene
2. Wear PPE when handling specimens
3. Avoid touching your face, nose, mouth.
4. Never store food in laboratory refrigerator.
5. Tie back your hair, remove dangling earrings or loose bracelets.
6. Use close shoes that are nonabsorbent. correct answers General Precautions:
Biological Hazard correct answers Refers to any material that could be harmful to one's health.
Biosafety correct answers Used to prevent and protect clinical laboratories from harmful
incidents caused by laboratory specimens..
"capped" correct answers Specimens should be ________________ during centrifugation
Spill cleanup kit
Common aqueous detergent
10% bleach using appropriate contact time correct answers Any blood, body fluid, or other
potentially infectious material spill must be cleaned up using:
a. Category I - daily exposure to blood and body fluids
b. Category II - regular exposure to blood and body fluids
c. Category III - no exposure to blood and body fluids correct answers Categories of Exposure or
"Exposure Control Plan"
Sharps Hazard correct answers Inoculation of blood born pathogens such as HIV, HBV, HCV.
It may cause physical injury.
Hepatitis B virus correct answers It can stay alive in dried blood for 1 week or 7 days
Chemical spills correct answers When skin contact occurs, the best first aid is to flush the area
with large amounts of water for at least 15 minutes and then seek medical attention.
Chemical Handling correct answers Chemicals should never be mixed together unless specific
instructions are followed, and they must be added in the order specified.
Chemical Hygiene Plan correct answers OSHA also requires all facilities that use hazardous
chemicals to have a written chemical hygiene plan (CHP) available to employees.
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) correct answers has developed the Standard
System for providing codes and standard information about the chemicals/solutions.
Safety showers and Eyewash stations
Fire extinguishers correct answers Safety Equipment
Flammable/Combustible Chemicals correct answers They are classified according to flash point,
which is the temperature at which sufficient vapor is given off to form an ignitable mixture with
air.
Corrosive Chemicals correct answers injurious to the skin or eyes by direct contact or to the
tissue of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts if inhaled or ingested
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