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

Under new lab safety initiatives, you’ll need to be more vigilant than ever to guarantee compliance while keeping staff safe. Laboratory safety compliance regulations have changed significantly since the first edition of this landmark manual.

• In 2006 alone the College of American Pathologists added two new standards and revised two others in the laboratory safety section of the General Checklist.
• 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 has reached crisis level, making employee training of utmost importance

If you’re like most laboratory technologists, you enjoy working every day doing what you were trained to do—analyzing specimens to produce accurate and timely results. Your job also involves far more than that. To consistently maintain a safe environment for employees and patients and ensure daily compliance, a second edition of this key resource for laboratorians is not a choice, it’s a must.

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 as it is a learning guide.

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

• Real-life case studiesintroducing 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 to them you’re doing your job. Now, expert Terry Jo Gile, MT(ASCP), MA Ed. "The Safety Lady™" brings you even more  of what laboratorians need to get the job done.

Still the most complete compliance protection available- whether serving as a reference or a training tool

A laboratorian herself, Terry Jo Gile understands the laboratory better than anyone else. So lab managers, directors, and compliance officers can turn to the Complete Guide to Laboratory Safety, Second Edition, knowing this binder and CD-ROM set has everything covered. Use it as a desk reference for your staff on safe practices for many lab operations or to guide yourself to deliver and document your lab safety training, manage your lab safety risk, and perform administrative tasks.

Order the newest “one-stop-shop” for lab safety

Let Complete Guide to Laboratory Safety, Second Edition be your single, comprehensive resource for laboratory compliance.  Order today!

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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