CLSI QMS28—Laboratory Safety Management is intended for laboratorians who are responsible for developing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving a laboratory safety management program. Safety program aspects covered in CLSI QMS28 include equipment maintenance and inspection, personal safety, and warning signs and labels. CLSI QMS28 also discusses fire prevention, electrical and radiation safety, waste management, and other potential laboratory hazards.

CLSI QMS28 is intended for laboratory directors, managers, and supervisors, as well as personnel who perform laboratory testing. Laboratory safety program aspects covered in CLSI QMS28 include equipment maintenance and inspection, personal safety, and warning signs and labels. In addition, CLSI QMS28 discusses radiation safety, fire prevention, electrical safety, and other potential laboratory hazards. Special considerations for anatomic pathology laboratories are also included. CLSI QMS28 emphasizes methods for avoiding waste generation and implementing waste minimization. Options for handling, packaging, labeling, storing, recycling, transporting, decontaminating, and disposing of each type of waste are also covered. CLSI QMS28 is written for laboratorians who develop and implement safety programs in medical laboratories; however, other types of laboratories will also find CLSI QMS28 useful. 

CLSI QMS28 does not cover emergency management or provide detailed methods for preventing laboratory-acquired infections because information on these topics is available in the literature.