Complete Guide to Laboratory Safety, Second Edition

NEW UPDATED FOR 2007!

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
• 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.