2013, Number 2
Biosecurity Barriers at the Laboratory of Microbiology in Yara. 2012
Lorente CJ, Prats BME, Araujo RH, Gainza GBA, Pons ÁLM
Language: Spanish
References: 12
Page: 1-11
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ABSTRACT
At Microbiology Laboratories, the biological risk is high, from that point it comes the need to establish and to obey the biosegurity standards. With that, purpose it was accomplished an investigation at the Laboratory of Microbiology in Yara in order to identify the functioning of the retaining barriers. The laboratory was characterized according to the distribution of places, number of persons that work and the risk level. The determination of the structural conditions of the laboratory was performed by means of the laboratory inspection and it was take into account an observational guide according to the biosecurty structures for every health institution in 2010. The evaluation of knowledge about the retaining barriers was applied through a Questionnaire, based on the criteria of biological security stablished in the biosecurity manual (OMS, Geneva 2005), in addition to the observation of practical work at the laboratory, in order to detect the application of biosecurity measures on it.REFERENCES
Instituto Nacional para la Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional. Alerta. Prevención de lesiones por pinchazos (piquetes de agujas) en entornos clínicos. DHHS (NIOSH) Publicación Nº 2000-108; [Internet] 1999. Citado 21 de Octubre 2011. Disponible en: http://www.who.int/occupational_health/activities/oehcdrom19.pdf.