A recent article reports on exposed breaches in UK laboratory safety
Ian Sample, science editor at The Guardian, described how the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have investigated numerous safety issues at specialist hospital laboratories and private companies which resulted in laboratory staff being exposed to infectious samples.
The Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) welcomes the viewpoints of journalists and healthcare officials who have researched the investigations of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into specialist laboratories across the UK. The article sheds light on an essential issue: the importance of health and safety for laboratory staff when handling and processing samples in the lab.
