lab safety

medical laboratory safety

1. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Laboratory safety Mr:Mahmoud Ibrahim

2. Definition Its procedure that used to protect your self ,lab , your reagent and equipment That mean the laboratory safety classify into : Personal safety Room and environment safety Reagent and equipment safety

3. Why laboratory safety is important Legal requirement and federal law Financial implication Own desire to work in safety environment Moral responsibility

4. Personal safety This is a ways that use to protect your self and you team work it include Wearing lab coat is one of the most important personal safety to protect your self form the chemical material and the contaminated sample Wearing gloves to protect against sharpener , contaminated sample and chemical Wearing mask when required (for inhaling pathogen)

5. Personal safety count.. Don’t eat or drink in side the lab Wash the hand before and after work by detergent soap Don’t put your personal material in the working pinch ( Mobil, bag ) Use the suitable light for examination to reduce the eye effect Use the suitable high of pinch ( not harm for your back)

6. Personal Protective Equipment ( PPE )

7. Room safety To make the room as suitable place of work: It must contain the hazard door It have a good ventilation Contain water supply Contain existent fan Good roof and good flour

8. Lab Room include safety shower eye wash station fire extinguisher in lab and closest extinguisher in hall fire blanket fire alarm in lab and closest alarm in hallway first aid

9. Reagent safety To keep your reagent and equipment in the perfect way from sun ,dust and bad effect What are the hazardous chemical? hazardous chemical are any material that present any physical or health hazard when used, unless they exempted under the law . Any chemical that should be consider as hazard chemical and you must wear gloves, eye goggles and helmets all item

10. Material safety data sheets ( MSDS) This sheets is prepare by the manufacturer in accordance with come standard ,indicates the hazard and safe handling information for chemical MSDS contain : identification of substance composition data /data on component hazard identification first aid measure

11. Fire fight measure Spill clean up measure handling and storage exposure controls and personal protection physical and chemical properties stability reactivity toxicological information ecological information disposal considerations transport information regulations other information MSDS contain count..

12. The national fire protective agency ( NFPA) NFPA: is specific system for identifying the hazards association with material

13. Color Coded Label Systems 3 2 4 Colors represent kind of hazard Red = fire Yellow = reactivity Blue = health white = specific hazard & personal protection NFPA-type label 1

14. chemical spill management Each laboratory must decide how manage hazardous chemical spill : may opt clean its own spills may initiate the university's emergency response system by calling telephone for chemical spill, institute combination of two above

15. Method of process hazards analysis This by know the fallowing what if check list hazard and operability study failure mod and effect analysis fault tree analysis

16. What – if Relatively uncomplicated processes, review the process fore raw material to protect , at each handling or processing step. what-if question are formulated and answered to evaluate the effect of component failures or procedural errors on the process

17. Laboratory safety equipment The equipment preserve from environment effect Some equipment can effect by low or high temperature Some can be effected by different type of chemical So it is importance to now the type of equipment you have for save use

18. Any questions..??