Title: Maintain safety equipment, clean work area, and clean laboratory supply storage area.
Course: Biomedical Technician (14900) > Section: Maintaining Safe Environment

Maintaining safety equipment, cleaning work area, and cleaning laboratory supply and storage areas includes the following:

- Keeping the equipment clean, in good condition, and in good repair
- Explaining proper sanitation and disinfection of work area and laboratory supplies
- Adhering to laboratory prohibitions (e.g., no eating, no drinking, no applying make-up, no putting on contacts or lip balm, no gum chewing, no neglect of personal hygiene)
- Attending to inventory control
- Following industry guidelines and regulations
- Identifying precautions to prevent contamination of apparatus, work surfaces, self, others, and work environment

Process/Skill Questions:

- Why is it important to keep the laboratory equipment clean?
- Why is it important to keep the laboratory equipment in good repair and condition?
- Why are safety and cleanliness so essential in a laboratory environment?
- What procedures should be in place for reporting equipment problems?