[Histonet] CAP standard for formalin and xyelene testing

Terri Braud tbraud <@t> holyredeemer.com
Tue Jan 19 15:58:28 CST 2010


We also monitored by task, and by employee with badges.  But, even though we've never been over threshold limits, we have an outside company come in once per year.  Its a precautionary step lest the least procedural change slip by us.  This also acts as an insurance for those that might seek to find fault with our monitoring.  As we all know, you can smell xylene long before it becomes dangerous.

Terri L. Braud, HT(ASCP)
Anatomic Pathology Supervisor
Laboratory
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical Center
1648 Huntingdon Pike
Meadowbrook, PA 19046
(215) 938-3676 phone
(215) 938-3689 fax


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Not all histotechs work in the same way, so I always monitored the job (as Janice points out) but also the staff member. I remember having different results for staff for the same task.
We used to monitor the whole staff (21) during a whole year, meaning that each month there was somebody being tested. We monitores for formalin and xylene, until we stop using xylene.
We also had an outside company to monitor the whole lab during one single day.
René J.

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Subject: RE: [Histonet] CAP standard for formalin and xyelene testing
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My understanding is that it is the job, not the employee that must be monitored.  So if you have three people using the same process of changing the stainer, only one of those people needs to be tested.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Thanks,
Jan Mahoney
Omaha, NE

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Subject: [Histonet] CAP standard for formalin and xyelene testing

CAP standard says formaldehyde testing should be done for each employee as an eight hour exposure and a short term exposure limit. If two tests done at least one week apart are under action levels, there is no need for further ongoing monitoring unless new process, employee, or other factor that might increase exposure is introduced. Or if an employee feels they have a problem and requests it. So I guess each employee is tested twice and then that's it unless you over the limit.

Xylene is similar- once you have two tests under action levels, there is no need for ongoing monitoring unless things change as above.

Jeffrey Silverman HT HTL QIHC (ASCP)
Pathologists' Assistant- Lab Safety Officer
Southside Hospital NSLIJHS
Bay Shore, NY USA
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