medical laboratory safety

1. Mr:Mahmoud
Ibrahim

2. Definition
 Its procedure that used to protect your self ,lab , your
reagent and equipment
That mean the laboratory safety classify into :
1. Personal safety
2. Room and environment safety
3. Reagent and equipment safety

3. Why laboratory safety is important
 Legal requirement and federal law
 Financial implication
 Own desire to work in safety environment
 Moral responsibility

4. Personal safety
 This is a ways that use to protect your self and you
team work it include
1. Wearing lab coat is one of the most important
personal safety to protect your self form the chemical
material and the contaminated sample
2. Wearing gloves to protect against sharpener ,
contaminated sample and chemical
3. Wearing mask when required (for inhaling
pathogen)

5. Personal safety count..
4. Don’t eat or drink in side the lab
5. Wash the hand before and after work by detergent
soap
6. Don’t put your personal material in the working
pinch ( Mobil, bag )
7. Use the suitable light for examination to reduce the
eye effect
8. Use the suitable high of pinch ( not harm for your
back)

6. Personal
Protective
Equipment
(PPE)

7. Room safety
To make the room as suitable place of
work:
1. It must contain the hazard door
2. It have a good ventilation
3. Contain water supply
4. Contain existent fan
5. Good roof and good flour

8. Lab Room include
1. safety shower
2. eye wash station
3. fire extinguisher in lab and closest
extinguisher in hall
4. fire blanket
5. fire alarm in lab and closest alarm in
hallway
6. first aid

10. Reagent safety
To keep your reagent and equipment in the perfect way
from sun ,dust and bad effect
What are the hazardous chemical?
 hazardous chemical are any material that present any
physical or health hazard when used, unless they
exempted under the law .
 Any chemical that should be consider as hazard
chemical and you must wear gloves, eye goggles and
helmets all item

11. Material safety data sheets
(MSDS)
 This sheets is prepare by the manufacturer in
accordance with come standard ,indicates the hazard
and safe handling information for chemical
 MSDS contain :
1. identification of substance
2. composition data /data on component
3. hazard identification
4. first aid measure

12. 5. Fire fight measure
6. Spill clean up measure
7. handling and storage
8. exposure controls and personal protection
9. physical and chemical properties
10. stability reactivity
11. toxicological information
12. ecological information
13. disposal considerations
14. transport information
15. regulations
16. other information
MSDS contain count..

14. The national fire protective agency
(NFPA)
NFPA: is specific system for
identifying the hazards
association with material

15. Color Coded Label Systems
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Colors represent kind of hazard
• Red = fire
Yellow = reactivity
• Blue = health
• white = specific hazard
& personal protection
NFPA-type label

16. chemical spill management
 Each laboratory must decide how manage
hazardous chemical spill :
1. may opt clean its own spills
2. may initiate the university's emergency response
system by calling telephone for chemical spill,
3. institute combination of two above

17. Method of process hazards analysis
This by know the fallowing
1. what if
2. check list
3. hazard and operability study
4. failure mod and effect analysis
5. fault tree analysis

18. What – if
 Relatively uncomplicated processes, review
the process fore raw material to protect , at
each handling or processing step.
 what-if question are formulated and
answered to evaluate the effect of
component failures or procedural errors on
the process

19. Laboratory safety equipment
 The equipment preserve from environment effect
 Some equipment can effect by low or high
temperature
 Some can be effected by different type of chemical
 So it is importance to now the type of equipment
you have for save use

20. Any questions..??