Lan Safety Flashcards by Kyra Catedral

SAFETY AGENCIES & ORGANIZATIONS
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● U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

● Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)

● CDC, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Public Health Service

● College of American Pathologists (CAP)

● The Joint Commission (The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)

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OSHA

U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

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(CLSI)

Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute

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(DHHS)

CDC, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service

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(CAP)

College of American Pathologists

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(The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)

The Joint Commission

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OSHA

What public law?

Public Law 91-596

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OSHA

Public Law 91-596

Enacted by US Congress in

1970

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OSHA Goals

Goals: Provide all employees with a safe work environment

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OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)

(2)

✓ Inspection
✓ Accreditation

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Establish lab work methods & safety policies

Employer’s responsibility

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Provide supervision & guidance to employees

Employer’s responsibility

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Provide safety info, training, PPE & medical surveillance to employees

Employer’s responsibility

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Provide & maintain equipment & lab facilities that are adequate for the tasks required

Employer’s responsibility

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Know & comply with the established lab work safety methods

EMPLOYEE’S RESPONSIBILITIES

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Have a positive attitude toward supervisors, coworkers, facilities & safety training

EMPLOYEE’S RESPONSIBILITIES

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Give prompt notification of unsafe conditions or practices to the immediate supervisor and ensure that unsafe conditions and practices are corrected

EMPLOYEE’S RESPONSIBILITIES

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Engage in the conduct of safe work practices and use of PPE

EMPLOYEE’S RESPONSIBILITIES

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OSHA’S 3 LINE OF DEFENSE

Engineering Controls

Administrative and Work Practice Controls

Personal Protective Equipment

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Eliminate the hazard or isolate workers from the source through engineered controls.

Engineering Controls

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Change the way people work through administrative and work practice controls.

Administrative and Work Practice Controls

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Protect workers with personal protective equipment.

Personal Protective Equipment

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HIERARCHY OF CONTROLS

ESEAP

1) Elimination
2) Substitution
3) Engineering controls
4) Administrative controls
5) PPE

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Physically remove the hazard

Elimination

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Replace the hazard

Substitutions

Isolate people from the hazard

Engineering controls

Change the way people work

Administrative contorls

Protect the worker with Personal Protective Equipment

PPE

Do you need to use a blade?

ELIMINATION

Can you use a safer blade?

SUBSTITUTION

Does a human have то do the cutting?

ENGINEERING CONTROLS

Can the worker use a safer cutting method?

ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROLS

Worker should use cut-resistant gloves.

PPE

remove the hazard from the workplace or create a barrier between the worker and the hazards

Engineering controls

Engineering controls example

installing physical barriers such as bullet-resistant enclosures

Engineering controls (12)

1. Puncture-resistant containers 2. Safety needles 3. Biohazard bags 4. Splash guards 5. Volatile liquid carriers 6. Centrifuge safety buckets 7. Biological safety cabinets 8. Fume hoods 9. Mechanical pipetting devices 10. Computer wrist/ arm pads 11. Sensor-controlled sinks 12. Foot/knee/elbow-controlled faucets

○ Protects the worker = least effective ○ Ex. Gloves, Goggles, Face Mask, Lab Gowns

PPE

○ Change the way people work ○ More on documents = policies & procedures/practices that provides safer methods ○ Ex. Curfews during the Pandemic

Administrative Controls

○ Isolate people from the hazards ○ Focused more on building structures ○ Can involve machines to do the work ○ Ex. Barriers used against COVID-19

Engineering Controls

○ Use a safer alternative & replace the hazard ○ Ex. Replace knife w/o handle to a knife w/ a handle

Substitution

○ Physically remove the hazard ○ Ex. Replace knife w/ blender to cut something

Elimination

● Remove the hazard from the workplace ● Create a barrier between the worker and the hazard ● Ex. Installing physical barriers such as bullet-resistant enclosures

ENGINEERING CONTROLS

Color Infectious waste which requires disposal by incineration

YELLOW

Color Infectious waste which may be treated to render it safe prior to disposal or alternatively it can be incinerated

ORANGE

Offensive/hygiene waste which may be landfilled in permitted or licensed sites

YELLOW & BLACK

Color Non hazardous medicinal waste, which requires incineration in a suitably permitted facility

GREEN

Color Cytotoxic or cytostatic which must be incinerated in a licensed or permitted facility

PURPLE

Color Domestic waste which does not contain sharps, medicinal waste or infectious materials

BLACK

Non-infectious dry waste

Black

Non-infectious wet waste (kitchen, dietary, etc.)

Green

Infectious & Pathological waste

Yellow

Chemical waste including those w/ heavy metals

Yellow and Black Band

Radioactive waste

Orange

Sharps & pressurized containers

Red

Fume Hoods

● No filtration of air ● Exhausts chemical fumes outside the laboratory ● Suitable for chemical and non-sterile work ● Never used for infectious agents

● HEPA filtration of air intake and exhaust ● Recirculates filtered air in to laboratory ● Ensure sterility

Biosafety Cabinets

● NO Sample protection ● YES Operator protection

Fume hood

● YES Sample protection ● YES Operator protection

Biosafety cabinets

Does not contain sharps, medicinal waste, or infectious material.

Black

Ex. Fruit Peels, Liquid Containers

Green

Ex. Blood/Urine samples & their containers, Gloves, Face Mask

Yellow

Offensive/hygiene waste w/c may be landfilled in permitted or licensed sites

Yellow w/ Black

Commonly seen in the nuclear medicine department

Orange

● Cytotoxic/cytostatic waste ● Must be incinerated in a suitable permitted facility

Purple

Sharps & Pressurized containers (Vacutainer Tubes, Needles, Lancets, Broken Glass)

Red

● Prevents splashes from the sample

SPLASH GUARDS

● Prevents blood from spilling or being aerosolized

CENTRIFUGE SAFETY BUCKETS

Free-flowing air w/ pathogens can contaminate samples. Not used for culturing bacteria

Fume hoods

Culturing, planting of bacteria, processing of sputum, urine

BIOLOGICAL SAFETY CABINET

● Better than the normal bulb pipettes w/c are more difficult to use.

MECHANICAL PIPETTING DEVICES

● Ergonomic hazard controls that will prevent ergonomic injury to the employee

COMPUTER WRIST ARM PAD

● Eliminates the need to touch sources of contamination = commonly seen in surgery dept.

SENSORY-CONTROLLED SINKS & FOOT\KNEE\ELBOW CONTROLLED FAUCETS

● Used when chemicals splash the eyes

EYEWASH STATION

● Know properties of chemicals found inside to prevent unwanted reactions

CHEMICAL STORAGE CABINET

● Used when fire/chemicals get on the employees' clothes/body.

SAFETY SHOWERS

are those that modify workers’ work schedules and tasks in ways that minimize their exposure to workplace hazards

Administrative controls

Administrative controls Examples

○ Developing a chemical hygiene plan ○ Developing SOP for chemical handling ○ Warning alarms ○ Labeling systems ○ Trainings

(general procedures/policies that mandate measures to reduce or eliminate exposure to hazard)

Work practice controls

Work practice controls Examples

● Hand washing after each patient contact ● Cleaning surfaces with disinfectants ● Avoiding unnecessary use of needles and sharps and not recapping ● Red bag waste disposal ● Immunization for hepatitis ● Job rotation to minimize repetitive tasks ● Orientation, training, and continuing education ● No eating, drinking, or smoking in laboratory ● Warning signage

Hand washing procedure

Wet hands with water apply enough soap to cover all hand surfaces Rub hands palm to palm right pa'm over left dorsum with interlaced fingers and vice versa palm to palm with fingers interlaced backs of fingers to opposing palms with fingers interlocked rotational rubbing of left thumb clasped in right palm and vice versa rotational rubbing, backwards and forwards with clasped fingers of right hand in left palm and vice versa Rinse hands with water dry thoroughly with a single use towel use towel to turn off faucet ..and your hands are safe

PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT

• Gloves • Lab Gown • Eyewash Stations • Protective Eyewear • Face Shield • Face Mask • Safety Shower • Appropriate Footwear (No Slippers)

HAZARD CLASSIFICATION

Biological Fire Electrical Chemical

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