Managing risk is an ongoing activity in the laboratory to ensure quality service in the best interests of both users and providers of the services.

Risk Management in the Laboratory

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6th June , 2010

Laboratory Safety

The laboratory as a fundamental component in provision of health care has procedures that transform the physicians into laboratory information (Berte , et .al 2004 . A lot of care should be taken while working in the laboratory due to the many risks it presents . Quality management and patient safety must be observed by setting of conventional rules in form of standard operating procedures to be followed in all clinical laboratories

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reduce risk upon themselves by keeping safe and being responsible . Some of the measures to be taken towards patient safety include patient and specimen identification , provision of accurate information , specificity and sensitivity in analytical procedures and correct interpretation of results (Noble , 2010

In addition , patient consent and identification , specimen transport and identification should be thoroughly monitored during the pre- analytical stage . For the laboratory management , they include financial , liability and safety (Wayne , 2007 .The following will discuss biological agents as one of the potential risk in laboratories to the workers , the patients and the laboratory organization and site the steps a laboratory can take to assess possible risk failures

Some of the categories of potential risk for laboratory workers patients and the laboratory organization include chemical that can poison , burn or irritate depending on the material , biologic agents which have the potential to cause diseases , ionizing radiations like ultraviolet lamps , non-ionizing radiations such as x-rays , machinery used for purposes they are...