I did my infection control e-learning today. Infection control, health and
safety, it’s all a load of old tosh, isn’t it…
I can remember being told (by a senior biochemist) to sharpen my
pencil with a scalpel blade, and chopping a lump off of my finger.
I can remember watching senior staff charging round the (now bulldozed)
biochemistry department chasing each other with water pistols filled with Schiff’s
reagent.
I can remember senior staff playing cricket in the (now bulldozed)
microbiology department and sending petri dishes flying.
I can remember when I first started as an apprentice blood tester being
told to seriously consider not joining the works pension scheme as I was told
that (at that time) the average blood tester died three years before
collecting their pension.
And I can remember the face of a friend who died from a rather rare type
of brain tumour… the lab where she worked used to make thromboplastin from
human brain. Four of them in the same lab died of the very same type of tumour
within a few weeks of each other…
I sometimes take a deep breath when the trainees put on their gloves and
goggles, but they are right to do so.
For all that I grumble about recent changes in the workplace, some have
been for the better.
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