GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICES

• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)


  A safety outfit that minimizes any possible hazard to an individual
• Personal


  • Only effective on the wearer
• Protective


  • Minimizes contact and transmission
• Equipment


  • Contains multiple components
• Specific components of laboratory PPE


  • Skin protection
  • Eye protection
  • Oronasal Protection
  • Hair Protection
• PPE prevents direct skin contact with laboratory materials
• Laboratory PPE

  • Laboratory gowns
  • Laboratory hairnets
  • Laboratory shoes
  • Laboratory googles
• Eye protection: PPE for the eyes


  Prevents exposure from chemical fumes, splashes, and spillage
• Oronasal protection: PPE for nose and mouth


  Prevent ingestion of solids and minimizes aerosol expulsion
• Good laboratory practices: protocols


  Protocols to maximize safety and minimize hazard inside the laboratory
• Biosafety level 1


  Laboratory designed to have minimal risk or harm
• Biosafety level 2


  Laboratory designed to have moderate risk or harm
• Biosafety level 3


  Laboratory designed to have extreme risk or harm