Re: Clothing etiquette for the bench tech.
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From: | portera@att.net (amy porter) |
To: | "Garza-Williams, Sara" <Garza-Williams.Sara@tchden.org> (by way of Histonet) |
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Sara - our laboratory is a university research as well
as service lab. all of our techs wear FPPE in the
grossing area and frozen section area or any other time
they are working with fresh unfixed materials that are
potentially infectious. we do not wear gloves or lab
coats while sectioning FFPE blocks. We do wear coats
and gloves while working with stains, encouraging eye
protection as well in case of splashing. If we are not
wearing coats then we wear barrier aprons while staining
or sectioning. As far as the "blue jeans" go, our lab
is allowed to wear jeans (not every day) when we choose
to. Most of us wear surgical scrubs because they are
less expensive than regular clothes if something gets
ruined. As far as our docs - no one wears gloves or a
lab coat while sitting behind their desk reading
slides. I would be steamed too!!! All of this is
regularly inspected by our biological saftey office on
campus.
amy s. porter, ht(ascp)
michigan state university
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