QMS 2 - RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
2.2.5-1 Laboratory Safety Demonstrations 2024
Illuminating the Path to ISO 15189 (SLMTA 3) e-Learning Course Download Video
- Overview
PURPOSE:
Safety concerns may be overlooked in the bustle of day-to-day laboratory activities. Two interactive and light-hearted demonstrations sensitize participants to the importance of safety.
KEY MESSAGES:
- Laboratory Safety affects all the key stakeholders:
- The patient, affecting his/her direct safety, plus the safety and integrity of the patient’s sample
- The individual laboratorian, and the entire laboratory & hospital staff
- The community-at-large
- Laboratory Safety is everyone’s concern … and everyone’s responsibility!
- Aerosols are a significant reason for laboratory staff infections.
SELF ASSESSMENT:
Can you:
- Think of and become sensitized to improper safety practices in all daily laboratory routines?
- Create a safe environment for laboratorians, patients, and the community?
Instructor(s)
Beatrice van der Puije
Ms. van der Puije helped redesign the classroom-based SLMTA 3 curriculum for on-line delivery and will serve as an instructor and facilitator of the e-learning course. Based in Ghana, Ms. van der Puije is a Public Health Program Manager at African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), a pan-African organisation strengthening medical laboratory networks and systems in Africa. Ms. van der Puije is a certified QMS Trainer, with a Master of Science Degree in Medical Immunology and Microbiology. She is a SLMTA master trainer and has trained numerous laboratorians in the past decade.