Laboratory Safety

Question 1

Types of safety hazard:

Source: infections agents

Answer 1

Biological hazard

Question 2

Types of safety hazard

Possible injury: bacterial, fungal, viral, or parasitic infections

Answer 2

Biological hazard

Question 3

Types of safety hazard

Source: needles, lancets, and broken glass

Answer 3

Sharp

Question 4

Types OF hazards

Answer 4

Biological
Sharp
Chemical
Radioactive
Electrical
Fire
Physical

Question 5

Types of safety hazard

Possible injury: cuts, punctures or bloodborne pathogen exposure

Answer 5

Sharp

Question 6

Types of safety hazard

Possible injury: exposure to toxic carcinogenic or caustic agents

Answer 6

Chemical

Question 7

Types of safety hazard

Possible injury: radiation exposure

Answer 7

Radioactive

Question 8

Types of safety hazard

Possible injury: burns or shock

Answer 8

Electrical

Question 9

Types of safety hazard

Possible injury: burns or dismemberment

Answer 9

Fire

Question 10

Types of safety hazard

Possible injury: falls, sprains and strains

Answer 10

Physical

Question 11

Types of safety hazard

Source: preservatives and reagents

Answer 11

Chemical

Question 12

Types of safety hazard

Source: equipment and radioisotopes

Answer 12

Radioactive

Question 13

Types of safety hazard

Source: undergrounded or wet equipment and frayed cords

Answer 13

Electrical

Question 14

Types of safety hazard

Source: Bunsen burners and organic chemicals

Answer 14

Fire

Question 15

Types of safety hazard

Source: slippery floors, heavy boxes and patients

Answer 15

Physical

Question 16

This denotes infectious materials or agents that present a potential health risk

Answer 16

Biohazard/ biological health hazard

Question 17

Chain of infection: bacteria, fungus, protozoan, rickettsia, virus

Answer 17

Infectious agent

Question 18

Parts of chain of infection

Answer 18

Infectious agent
Reservoir
Exit pathway
Mode oF transmission
Entry pathway
Susceptible host

Question 19

Chain of infection: animal, human, equipment, food, soil, water

Answer 19

Reservoir

Question 20

Chain of infection: blood, exudates, excretions, secretions

Answer 20

Portal of exit

Question 21

Chain of infection: airborne, contact, droplet, vector, vehicle

Answer 21

Made of transmission

Question 22

Chain of infection: body orifices, mucous membranes, broken skin

Answer 22

Portal of entry

Question 23

Chain of infections: elderly, newborn, acute/chronically ill, immune suppressed, unvaccinated

Answer 23

Susceptible host

Question 24

BSL __ laboratories handle agents that have no known potential for infecting healthy people

Answer 24

Biosafety level 1

Question 25

BSL __ laboratories are those laboratories that work with microorganisms associated with human diseases that are rarely serious and for which preventive or therapeutic interventions are often available.

Answer 25

Biosafety Level 2

Question 26

BSL __ is recommended for materials that may contain viruses not normally encountered in a clinical laboratory and for the cultivation of mycobacteria. Working with mycobacteria requires the use of N95 HEPA filter respirators.

Answer 26

Biosafety Level 3

Question 27

BSL __ is required for work with dangerous and exotic agents that pose a high risk of aerosol-transmitted laboratory infections and life-threatening disease for which effective treatments are limited

Answer 27

Biosafety level 4

Question 28

Risk factor: pathogens on hands of medical personnel, invasive procedures, antibiotic use

Answer 28

Iatrogenic

Question 29

Risk factor: contaminated aircon systems, staffing, physical layout of facility

Answer 29

Organizational

Question 30

Risk factor: severity of illness, length of stay

Answer 30

Patient risk factor

Question 31

Source or a situation that may cause harm or injury

Answer 31

Hazard

Question 32

Likelihood or probability fora hazard to cause harm

Answer 32

Risk

Question 33

This guideline recommends wearing gloves when collecting or handling blood and body fluids contaminated with blood and wearing face shields when there is a danger of blood splashing on mucous membranes and when disposing of all needles and sharp objects in puncture-resistant containers

Answer 33

Universal precautions

Question 34

This guideline are not limited to bloodborne pathogens; they consider all body fluids and moist body substances to be potentially infectious

Answer 34

Body substance isolation

Question 35

According to this guidelines, personnel should wear gloves at all times when encountering moist body substances.

Answer 35

Body substance isolation

Question 36

This guideline do not recommend handwashing following removal of gloves unless visual contamination is present

Answer 36

Body substance isolation

Question 37

This guideline assume that everyone is potentially infected or colonized with an organism that can betransmitted in the healthcare setting

Answer 37

Standard precaution

Question 38

It combines the guidelines of universal precautions and body substance isolation

Answer 38

Standard precautions

Question 39

What is the most effective method in the hierarchy of controls?

Answer 39

Elimination

Question 40

What is the least effective method in the hierarchy of controls?

Answer 40

Personal protective equipment (PPE)

Question 41

Hierarchy of controls from most to least effective

Answer 41

Elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, PPE

Question 42

5 lab safety program???

Answer 42

1. training 2. Hazard identification and communication 3. Engineering controls 4. PPE 5. Emergency response plan

Question 43

Hierarchy of controls: physically remove of hazard

Answer 43

Elimination

Question 44

Hierarchy of control: replace the hazard

Answer 44

Substitution

Question 45

Hierarchy of control: isolate people from hazard

Answer 45

Engineering control

Question 46

Hierarchy of control: change the way people work

Answer 46

Administrative control

Question 47

Protect people with PPE

Answer 47

PPE