barrows020

Can someone tell me if it is required to have bio hazard labels on every piece of equipment. we are being told to have them on everything, Phones, computers, centrifuges, refrigerators, waterbath, viewing mirrors, microscopes,printers,ect. Isn't everything considered dirty in a lab anyways.

Could someone help me with the requirement for alarms on refrigerators. Our refrigerators have alarms and charts. If our Blood bank is staffed 24-7 do they need to be alarmed to an outside area( hospital Switch Board). I need regulation citations to show my supervisor.

What are other Blood banks doing about Complement check cell being unavailable. Are you not testing for complement or are you using a home made control?

We use bag tags that we tie on the units. As far as I know we can not put any lables directly on the blood bags. This is a regulation.

Thank you for the comment

We are a blood Transfusion center that collects our own blood. We send out our donor samples for T&S and NAT tresting. When testing comes back we retype each unit from a segment of the unit.( front type only). There is a debate here as to whether we should be doing a full front and back type from each unit prior to labeling the unit. We do keep a clot specimen from every donor. Thank, James