Bayer HealthCare RapidPoint 400 Series Service Manual page 388

• Wear gloves while servicing parts of the instrument that have contact
with body fluids such as serum, plasma, urine, or whole blood.
• Wash your hands before going from a contaminated area to a
noncontaminated area, or when you remove or change gloves.
• Wear facial protection when splatter or aerosol formation are possible.
• Wear personal protective equipment such as safety glasses, gloves,
lab coats or aprons when working with possible biohazard
contaminants.
• Keep your hands away from your face.
• Cover all superficial cuts and wounds before starting any work.
• Dispose of contaminated materials according to your laboratory's
biohazard control procedures.
• Keep your work area disinfected.
• Disinfect tools and other items that have been near any part of the
instrument sample path or waste area with 10% v/v bleach.
• Do not eat, drink, smoke, or apply cosmetics or contact lenses while in
the laboratory.
• Do not mouth pipet any liquid, including water.
• Do not place tools or any other items in your mouth.
• Do not use the biohazard sink for personal cleaning such as rinsing
coffee cups or washing hands.
• Always wash your hands at the end of a service call.
• Always use soap from a dispenser rather than bar soap.
• Label known contaminated items.
• Notify the laboratory supervisor and Bayer Diagnostics if an injury
occurs while performing service (examples: pricking yourself with a
needle, cuts from glass.
To prevent needlestick injuries, needles should not be recapped,
purposely bent, cut, broken, removed from disposable syringes, or
otherwise manipulated by hand.
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