Title Page

  • Principal Investigator

  • Department

  • Location
  • Phone

  • Conducted on

  • Prepared by

  • Materials or agents used:

  • Personnel

  • Used daily?

  • Bloodborne pathogen and/or Tuberculosis training required?

  • Infectious shipping training required?

  • Hepatitis B vaccine recommended?

  • Advised and trained for specific hazards/procedures?

Engineering Controls

  • Hand washing facilities?

  • Readily available with appropriate (antimicrobial) soap?

  • Eyewash/shower?

Personal Protective Equiment

  • Disposable (single use) gloves available and in use?

  • Gloves are not worn outside of laboratory

  • Lab coats or gowns?

  • Protective eyewear and face shields?

  • Masks/respirators?

  • Removed before leaving work area?

  • Cleaned by professional laundry service?

Work Practice Controls

  • No eating, drinking, smoking, applying cosmetics, or handling contact lenses in laboratory?

  • Food or drink is not stored in areas where potentially infectious materials are present?

  • Appropriate pipetting devices in use?

Sharps

  • Policies are in place for the safe handling of sharps, such as needles, scalpels, pipettes, and broken glassware.

  • Are needles used?

  • Safe devices in use?

  • Are there procedures where safer devices cannot be used?

  • Needle recapping using approved methods?

  • Are sharps boxes available within arms reach, in sight and routinely replaced when 3/4 full?

  • Have glass capillary tubes and vacuum tubes been replaced by plastic?

  • Have blood drawing personnel been advised not to reuse blood tube holders?

  • Has the practice of injecting blood through a stopper into a vacuum tube using an exposed needle been discontinued?

Work Areas

  • Absorbent paper in use?

  • Disinfectants:

  • Work surfaces are decontaminated after completion of work and after any spill or splash of potentially infectious material?

Biohazard Postings

  • Door

  • Refrigerators/Freezers

  • Equipment

  • Waste containers

  • Emergency response procedures

Biological Safety Cabinets

  • Biosafety Cabinets?

  • Type

  • Used when potential for aerosols exist?

  • Clear of all nonessential equipment?

  • Shared with others

Biohazardous waste

  • Liquid and solid waste is decontaminated or sterilized before disposal using an effective method?

  • Autoclaved prior to disposal?

  • Autoclave SOP and verification of biological effectiveness log?

  • Containers clearly labeled and covered?

  • Sharps and broken glassware?

  • Mechanical devices available for broken glass?

  • Comments/recommendations

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