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Safety Precautions and Operating Procedures in an ABSL-4 Laboratory: 2. General Practices
Published on: October 3, 2016
[Training and professional attitudes regarding standard precautions]
Abstract:
In 2011, the Hospital Hygiene Practices Assessment Group provided health institutions with a tool to assess he institutional policy and available resources regarding the application of standard precautions as well as training and staff attitudes. The professionals declare that the practices relating to the risk of contact with contaminated equipment and the action to take in the event of the contact of biological fluid with mucosa are good. The practices to improve concern as a priority the wearing of protective equipment, the changing of gloves and the washing of hands between activities.
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