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Best
Practices to Prevent Illness Exposure When Working With Research Animals:
- Avoid the use of sharps whenever possible. Take extreme
care
when using a needle and syringe to inject research animals or when using
sharps during necropsy procedures. Never remove, recap, bend, break,
or clip used needles from disposable syringes.
- Keep hands away from mouth, nose, and eyes.
- Wear the required PPE in all areas within the animal facility.
- Remove gloves and wash hands after handling animals or tissues derived
from them and before leaving areas where animals are kept.
- Use mechanical pipetting devices (no mouth pipetting!).
- Never eat, drink, smoke, handle contact lenses, apply cosmetics,
or take
or apply medicine in areas where research animals are kept.
- Perform procedures carefully to reduce the possibility of creating
splashes
or aerosols.
- Contain operations that generate hazardous aerosols in biological
safety cabinets or other ventilated enclosures, such as animal bedding
dump stations.
- Keep doors closed to rooms where research animals are kept.
- Promptly decontaminate work surfaces when procedures are completed
and
after surfaces are soiled by spills of animal material or waste.
- Properly dispose of animal waste and bedding.
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