Complete Guide to Laboratory Safety, Second Edition

Arm yourself with the lab safety guidance you need to comply with new regulations

With numerous lab safety regulations to keep track of, you’ll need to be more vigilant than ever to guarantee compliance while ensuring the safety of your staff.

• The College of American Pathologists, OSHA, the DOT, and the EPA all have lab-safety related requirements that all laboratory employees should be aware of
• The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals lay out zero-tolerance for patient identification mistakes blood-sample collection and specimen labeling
• Bioterrorism has made shipping and transport of infectious specimens a national security issue
• The shortage of medical technologists makes employee training even more important

Let Complete Guide to Laboratory Safety, Second Edition guide you through your day-to-day activities, helping you stay current with fast-evolving operational procedures and developments in technology, while ensuring your policies and procedures are up-to-date. Written in easy-to-understand language so you can digest information quickly, it’s as much a sourcebook for regulatory compliance as it is a training guide.

Your definitive lab safety resource is now packed with even more expert advice! NEW for this edition:

• Real-life case studies introducing each chapter
• Chapter-and-verse CAP checklist references for relevant chapter topics
• An updated safety audit checklist
• A revised model safety manual
• A chemical storage chart
• Interactive cartoons and games for lab safety training purposes
• “Safety Savvy” tips only a lab veteran could write
  

Just like the first edition of this best-seller, the Complete Guide to Laboratory Safety, Second Edition helps digest current complex rules from OSHA, the EPA and the DOT, and delivers tools and forms to help you prove compliance. Now, expert Terry Jo Gile, MT(ASCP), MA Ed. "The Safety Lady™" brings you even more of what lab safety officers need to get the job done.

About the author
Terry Jo Gile, MT(ASCP), MA Ed. "The Safety Lady™" has over 40 years experience as a certified medical technologist. She has a bachelor's degree in Biology from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and a master's degree in Education from Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. For 20 years she was a member of the management team at Barnes-Jewish Hospital Department of Laboratories in St. Louis, Missouri, and served as the Safety Officer as well as a laboratory safety consultant to the BJC Health System. As President of her own consulting firm, Safety Lady, LLC, she lectures and consults worldwide on the proper implementation of safety programs including Chemical Hygiene, Bloodborne Pathogens, Formaldehyde, Ergonomics and the handling of diagnostic and infectious specimens for transport.

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