[Histonet] Pregnancy guide for working in histology

[Rene J Buesa]

Both formalin and xylene (and any other dangerous fumes) have to be avoided during pregnancy BUT if you have an efficient fumes hood to do grossing, then you should monitor exposure. Somebody NOT pregnant should gross with a personal formalin badge and, depending on the exposure result, then you may allow the pregnant employee to do grossing or not.René 

    On Thursday, September 6, 2018 1:08 PM, Carol Torrence via Histonet <histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu> wrote:
 

 Good morning!

Could some of you chime in on guidelines you go by for those employee that are expecting a baby.  I have removed employee from xylene exposure during staining and cover slipping but am on the fence about grossing.  At this time the employee has been removed from grossing.  All grossing is done under an exhaust hood.  Our exposure badges have always read well below limits.  Thanks in advance!

Carol M. Torrence, HT(ASCP)

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