1.

LABORATORY SAFETY AND

WASTE DISPOSAL
GROUP NO. 1 PRESENTATION
NAMES
1. Cecilia Philipo
2. Yunus Mohamed
3. Galganos B. Tesha
4. Huruma Jackson
5. Johnson Megabe
 LABORATORY SAFETY

DEFINITION

Laboratory safety refers to the

ways or methods designed to
prevent injury
or accident in the laboratory
work.
• Laboratory safety must be observed because
workers in medical laboratories are exposed to
many dangers ,not only from infected
materials but also from the dangerous
compounds and the apparatus use in their
daily activities.
• In to achieve this ,in many laboratories a code
of practice may be given the status of rules to
which all laboratory staff and any other
individuals concern must adhere:
• Eating ,drinking smoking storing food and
applying cosmetics should not be permitted in
the laboratory.
• Mouth pipetting should prohibited
• Work surface should be decontaminated at
least
• once a day and after any spill of potential
dangerous materials. Also the laboratory should
be kept neat, clean and free from free of any
materials not important for the work.
• Members of the staff should wash their hands
after handling infectious materials before
leaving the laboratory
• All contaminated liquid or solid materials
should be decontaminated before disposal or
re use.
• Laboratory coats should be worn in the
laboratory, and should not be worn in non
laboratory areas laboratory.
• Contaminated clothing should deconta
mineted by appropriate means.Eg sodium
hypochlorite against viruses.
• Gloves should be worn for procedures that
may involve accidental direct contact with
blood,infectous materials.
 WASTE DISPOSAL
• Waste disposal in the laboratory refers to the
deposition of waste generated during
laboratory activities. This include both
potential risk waste and non risk waste
materials. These waste are discarded from the
laboratory.
• The waste are desposed according to their
nature of risk they have.
 The main types of laboratory waste
1. Infections waste:
This create a variety health risk. It requires
special care from the point of generation
until final disposal, eg waste from
pathological units.
2. Non infectious waste:-
This include general waste which is not
harmful or low risk waste, eg paper waste
 WASTE HANDLING
• Before handling waste must segregated in
order to avoid risk. This is achieved due to
consideration of types of containers/bags as
far as colour codes and biohazard symbols are
concerned.
• Waste handlers should never sort through
waste after it has been placed in the bin.
 Precautions for handling waste
• Wash hands
• Handle all sharps and non sharps waste with
care.
• Waste handle should ware appropriate
protective gear.
• All laboratory waste should be handled with
special care as it may cause infectious.
• Manager should maintain a log book of all
accidents.
 Characteristics an ideal waste bin.
• Should have a well fitting lid.
• Be made of non corrosive material eg. Plastic
• Be Washable.
• Be portable, should have handles.
• Be lined with colour coded plastic bags.
• Be placed at convenient locations for use.
• Be decontaminated, cleaned and disinfected
after each use.
Colour coding for health care waste in
Tanzania are indicated as follows:-

• YELLOW-COLOUR:- Indicates safety box with

sharps, needles and syringes.
• RED COLOUR:-Indicates wet infectious
material i.e. blood and body tissues.
• BLUE/BLACK COLOUR:- Indicates non
infectious materials such as, food remains
 WASTE DISPOSAL METHODS

• Bury
• Burn
• Incinerated
• Encapsulated
• Using a sharp barrel and sharps pit.
2. CODE OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
FOR MEDICAL LABORATORY
PERSONNEL
 Definition
Code of professional conduct for medical
laboratory personnel, these are attitudes and
practices which characterize a responsible
laboratory worker and which are necessary to
ensure a person who works on a recognized
standard, which those using the laboratory
services expect to receive.
 Code of conduct…………
1.Place well being of the sick above your own
interest.
2. Be loyal to your medical laboratory
professional by maintaining high standard of
working and striving to improve your
professional skills and knowledge.
3. Work scientifically and with complete.
4. Do not misuse your professional skills or
knowledge for professional gain.
5. Never take any thing from your place of work
that does not belong to you.
6. Do not disclose to a patient or any an
authorized person the result of investigation.
7. Treat with strict confidentiality any person
information that you may learn about a
patient.
8. Respect and work in harmony with other
members of your hospital staff or health
centre team.
9.Promote health care and prevention under
control of diseases.
10. Follow safety procedure and know how to
apply first aid.
11. Do not drink alcohol during laboratory
working hours or on emergency standby.
12. Do not waste reagent or other laboratory
supplies.
 Conclusion
Code of conduct is very important for the quality
of the laboratory and for effective laboratory
personel.There fore code of conduct should be
well known and practice all practitioners.
THANKS FOR LISTENING

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