Laboratory safety

Laboratory safety

The workers in microbiology lab. Are in exposure to danger of infection from clinical sample and culture, as well as non infective danger such as fire, toxic substances and other. Microorganism vary in their ability to infect individual and cause disease. Some microorganisms are harmless whereas the others may responsible for production of disease with mild symptoms, the other organisms can cause serious disease with severe symptoms.

General instructions and precautions in microbiology lab.:

1. To prevent contamination of your clothes always wear lab. coat during the lab.
2. Sterilize the bench before and after the work in the lab.
3. Use rubber gloves and nose mask for all works with infective material.
4. All clinical lab. should contain at least one type of microbiology safety cabinet.
5. Keep your finger in short forms.
6. Never eat, smoke or drink in the lab.
7. Don’t touch your eyes, mouth, nose, during the work.
8. Don’t use your mouth for sucking solution but use sterilized pipette, if you were obligate, a cotton plug (put in the end of the pipette) is used for this purpose.
9. Never remove any culture or requirement from lab. to the outside.
10. Avoid pouring any of bacterial culture in the lab. sink.
11. Descent the contaminated material and all cultures into a container provided for this purpose and sterilize.
12. Wash your hands with detergent and water before leaving the lab.