hello everyone,

our blood center is formulating a plan that focuses on health and safety of blood bank personnel, reagents, and equipments. immunization or giving vaccine to personnels will definitely part of the health and safety aside from it what other aspects of health and safety that we could include in the plan??? talking about safety has broad coverage. in what aspect of safety that we can include in our plan?

my next question will be is disaster can be included in such plan? this just pop up in my mind since our institution is also vulnerable to calamities or disasters. in your experiences have you ever included disasters in your plan or an SOP within the laboratory.

and with regards to the safety of equipments and reagents what policies do apply in your laboratory? are there also an SOP on these? just want to seek some insights

if there such SOP or plan that covers the 3 can anyone from you could possibly provide a copy that will serve as our guide for our blood center.

Here is a starting spot from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (OSHA). It will give you an outline on what should be included in a blood borne pathogens plan. I would do a disaster plan seperatly as this would contain more information than just workers safety.

http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/bloodbornepathogens/recognition.html

good luck.

Here is the Table of Contents for our Plan. Hope it helps.

SAFETY MANUAL AND INFECTION CONTROL POLICY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Responsibilities.........................................................................4

Recognizing and Reporting Hazards...........................................5

Purpose and Scope of the Safety Program...................................5

Office Safety.............................................................................7

Electrical Safety........................................................................7

Fire Safety................................................................................7

Chemical Safety........................................................................9

Chemical Exposure..................................................................13

Chemical Disposal...................................................................13

Exposure Control Plan for Blood Borne Pathogens......................14

Workplace Controls.................................................................16

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).......................................18

Accidental Needle Sticks and Body Fluid Exposure.....................22

Handling Contaminated Documents..........................................23

General Laboratory Procedures................................................24

General Laboratory Cleaning....................................................25

General Cleaning.....................................................................26

Biohazardous Waste Disposal..................................................26

Waste Management................................................................28

Emergencies..........................................................................28

Hepatitis B Vaccination ..........................................................30

Smoking................................................................................31

Violence in the Workplace.......................................................31

Building Security....................................................................32

Standards for Safe Backing.....................................................35