chapter 5: Basic Safety in the Immunology-Serology Laboratory

Which of the following is the government agency primarily responsible for safeguards and regulations to ensure a safe and healthful workplace throughout the United States?

a. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

b. Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA '88)

c. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

d. City ordinances

a. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

The term Standard Precautions refers to:

a. Treating all specimens as if they are infectious

b. Assuming that every direct contact with a body fluid is infectious

c. Treating only blood or blood-tinged specimens as infectious

d. Both a and b

d. Both a and b

The CDC's Bloodborne Pathogen Requirement mandates:

a. Education and training of all health care workers in Standard Precautions

b. Proper handling of chemicals

c. Calibration of equipment

d. Fire extinguisher maintenance

a. Education and training of all health care workers in Standard Precautions

The single most common source of human immunodeficiency virus in the occupational setting is:

a. Saliva

b. Urine

c. Blood

d. Cerebrospinal fluid

c. Blood

When using gloves for phlebotomy or blood specimen processing, laboratory staff should:

a. Use sterile gloves

b. Wash hands after removing gloves

c. Not wash hands before leaving the laboratory

d. Not wash hands before and after using the bathroom

b. Wash hands after removing gloves

Gloves for medical use may be:

a. Sterile or nonsterile

b. Latex or vinyl

c. Used only once

d. All of the above

a. Sterile or nonsterile

Diluted bleach for disinfecting work surfaces, equipment, and

spills should be prepared daily by preparing a (8) _____ dilution of household bleach. This dilution requires (9) _____ mL of bleach diluted to 100 mL with H2O.

8.

a. 1:5

b. 1:10

c. 1:20

d. 1:100

9.

a. 1

b. 10

c. 25

d. 50

a. 1:5 , d. 50

Infectious waste must be discarded into containers with all of the following features except:

a. Marked“Biohazard”

b. Has standard biohazard symbol

c. Orange, orange and black, or red

d. Made of sturdy cardboard for landfill disposal

d. Made of sturdy cardboard for landfill disposal

Clinical laboratory personnel need to have demonstrable immunity to:

a. Rubella

b. Polio

c. Hepatitis B

d. Both a and c

d. Both a and c