Hospital lab safety leaders don’t need another reminder about the technician shortage—they’re living it. But what’s often overlooked is the competition beyond the walls of healthcare: Remote jobs, limited career mobility, and lackluster recruiting infrastructure are draining the talent pipeline...
Clinical laboratories are once again in the federal crosshairs. According to Barnes & Thornburg, LLP’s 2024 Healthcare Enforcement and Compliance Annual Report, lab service providers were involved in 18 civil settlements totaling nearly $240 million last year—a sharp signal of...
Building trust with your lab team to the point where you can leave them alone to do their jobs safely is essential, says Jason P. Nagy, PhD, MLS(ASCP), QLS, and Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP), SLS. Nagy is a laboratory safety support coordinator and Scungio is a...
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 importance of...
When talking about culture in healthcare, two terms that come up often are “safety culture” and “just culture.” A laboratory safety professional will likely be familiar with the former, but what is the latter?
In July, the U.S. Department of Labor announced several programs designed to help employers, unions, and pension plans voluntarily assess and improve their compliance with federal labor laws. The self-audit programs, which include new and updated offerings, aim to enhance worker protections...
This is Part 2 of our interview with Jason P. Nagy, PhD, MLS(ASCP), QLS; Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP), SLS; and Sean G. Kaufman on preventing and responding to exposures in the laboratory.
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 lab safety practices.
One of the most feared laboratory safety risks is exposure to hazardous materials, be they biological, chemical, or radioactive. Preventing and responding to these events are key to every laboratory safety officer’s job, and knowing what to do can sometimes be the difference between life and...
