Evaluation of safety and security in medical laboratories of Babylon University

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Background: Scientific laboratories considered a very important means in the development of science and these laboratories began increasing in their quantity and quality day after day and due to the spread of many diseases which have no obvious reasons, we must search for the unexpected underlying causes so we decided to make an assessment of things that provide safety and security in educational laboratories belonging to the Medical Group colleges owing to the large number of employees and students that deal with these laboratories and illustrate weaknesses points and requirements that qualify it to be healthy work environment depending on Internationally recognized guidelines.

Objective: to estimate degree of safety and security in Medical Group colleges’ laboratories.

Research design and methods: this study was Cross sectional study including 30 labs of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and nursing colleges.

Questionnaire involving main five entities (Employee training, Appliances and electrical outlets, Fire safety, Display screen equipment- DSE and Contingency Plan) which Consisting of 95 questions about lab safety and security.

Statistical analysis: SPSS version 17 was used.

Chi test was used for discreet data.

Data expressed as percentage .P < 0.05 was considered significant.

Result: Employee training in all labs was 45%, Appliances and electrical outlets were 50.86%, Fire safety were 34.08% ,DSE was 61.13% and Contingency Plan 27.78 %.

In general, Safety and security in medical laboratories of Babylon University was 43%.

Conclusion: this cross sectional study shows that there is weakness in Safety and security requirement which may belong to employees themselves or to Infrastructure of laboratories in general or to unintended causes.