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Mac's Safety Space Test

July 25, 2024

Behavioral & Mental Health, Environment and Facilities, Healthcare Staff, Laboratory Safety, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

This is Part 2 of our interview with Rachelle Babin, MBA, BSN, RN, CEC, CMMT, certified executive coach and consultant at Rachelle Babin Leadership, on high-level disinfection (HLD) of medical equip F...

Medical Environment Update

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Lab Safety Man: Safeguard your staff: OSHA requirements for bloodborne pathogen exposure control plans

May 06, 2024

Laboratory Safety

In this guest column, Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP), SLS, laboratory safety officer for multihospital system Sentara Healthcare in Virginia, and otherwise known as “Dan, the Lab Safety Man,” discusses the imp...

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Safe use of compressed gases

December 13, 2025

Fire & Life Safety, Laboratory Safety, Workplace safety

Darryl saw the low CO2 level alarm on the microbiology incubator and went to change the tank in the nearby storage room. The valve cover seemed stuck on the replacement tank and Darryl was unable to r...

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Q&A: Green and red flags when hiring laboratory staff

December 13, 2025

Healthcare Staff, Laboratory Safety

Bringing on the right lab employee starts with asking the right questions ...

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Q&A: Laboratories, climate change, and evacuation

December 13, 2025

Climate Change, Laboratory Safety

Climate change has affected almost every aspect of human civilization, and everyone, including laboratories, must adapt to meet the dangers. But how much will climate change force laboratories and lab...

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Lab Safety Man: Laboratory ergonomics: It’s in the details

December 13, 2025

Healthcare Staff, Laboratory Safety, Workplace safety

Ergonomics is a safety topic that gets little respect in the laboratory, but it can become very important over time. The effects of poor ergonomics are cumulative, and they can appear suddenly. When t...

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Making your laboratory a high reliability organization

December 13, 2025

Laboratory Safety, Quality & Errors

You can never be too reliable, especially when you work in biosafety and handle hazardous chemicals all day. Becoming a high reliability organization (HRO) has been a goal of many hospitals and labora...

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Q&A: Cleaning out the bad SOPs in your laboratory

December 13, 2025

Laboratory Safety, Policies and Procedures

It is standard operating procedure (SOP) to have multiple SOPs in your laboratory or facility. SOPs cover everything from donning and doffing PPE to hand hygiene, the use of equipment, and the handlin...

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Lab Safety Man: The strange anatomy of a lab exposure

December 13, 2025

Infection Control, Laboratory Safety, Workplace safety

The lab manager reported to me that an employee had a body fluid splash to the mouth, and the manager and the employee both wanted to know if it should be reported. At this point, the story breaks dow...

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From false positives to focused prevention: The AI-driven approach against drug diversion

December 13, 2025

Healthcare Staff, Laboratory Safety

Hospital leaders only need to glance at the headlines from the U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration’s Diversion Control Division to see the pervasiveness of drug diversion in hos...

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Mac's Safety Space Test

Lab Safety Man: Safeguard your staff: OSHA requirements for bloodborne pathogen exposure control plans

Safe use of compressed gases

Q&A: Green and red flags when hiring laboratory staff

Q&A: Laboratories, climate change, and evacuation

Lab Safety Man: Laboratory ergonomics: It’s in the details

Making your laboratory a high reliability organization

Q&A: Cleaning out the bad SOPs in your laboratory

Lab Safety Man: The strange anatomy of a lab exposure

From false positives to focused prevention: The AI-driven approach against drug diversion

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