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 important issues that affect your job every day. Today, he talks about the dangers of aerosol...
Hospital labs don’t typically discover OSHA compliance gaps during routine operations. They often find them when an auditor is already on-site, and by then, it’s too late to fix what’s been quietly slipping.
Clinical laboratories require a tremendous amount of energy to function. From continuous ventilation to temperature-controlled storage, water consumption, and high volumes of waste, routine laboratory operations carry a significant environmental footprint.
