Over 2,000 of your colleagues have participated in the Academy for the past 14 years.

 The 2024 Academy is a perfect way to advance your lab safety knowledge if you:

• Find it frustrating to locate safety information from a variety of sources
• Want to expand the impact of your lab safety expertise
• Want to increase your effectiveness in educating staff on lab safety issues
• Need ready access to colleagues whose expertise in lab safety is well known
• Would like to network with your peers on a regular basis for lab safety ideas

1. January 10, 2024 – In the Beginning: Preanalytical Safety Pitfalls

Laboratory employee safety starts right at the point of specimen collection, but it doesn’t just involve the phlebotomist. How patient samples are packaged, handled, and delivered are key to specimen integrity, but those often-overlooked steps also influence employee safety in many ways. Learn how to avoid unsafe practices and how to get compliance from other collecting departments you may not directly manage.

Speaker: Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP)SLS, CQA (ASQ), Dan the Lab Safety Man™, Williamsburg, VA

2. February 14, 2024 – Embracing Ergonomics in the Laboratory



As the lab workforce ages, we are dealing with more and more ergonomics issues. They are painful, they create lost work time, and they are expensive! In this session learn what you can do now, both as an employee and a safety professional, to teach good ergonomic practices and to make your lab safer today in order to be able to staff the lab tomorrow.

Speaker: Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP)SLS, CQA (ASQ), Dan the Lab Safety Man™, Williamsburg, VA

3. April 10, 2024 – How to Achieve High Reliability Safety Behavior in the Lab

The laboratory environment fits the definition of a High Reliability organization. We have procedures and processes in place to lower the probability of an unsafe event. But what about the human factor? Join our favorite guest speaker, Sean Kaufman, as he navigates the tricky world of behaviors and provides insights about how to manage the risks created by human behavior in the lab.   

Guest Speaker: Sean Kaufman, MPH, CHES, CPH, CIC, Certified MBTI Personality Assessment Provider, CEO  of Behavioral-Based Improvement Solutions, Executive Director of BioSafe360.

4. May 8, 2024 – Totally Rad- A Complete Lab Radiation Safety Program

There are several radiation safety standards for labs that must be followed, but do you know when to follow them? Do you know how to follow them? This session will help you understand what you need to have in place for handling radioactive substances in your clinical and anatomical pathology laboratories.  

Speaker:  Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP)SLS, CQA (ASQ), Dan the Lab Safety Man™, Williamsburg, VA

5.    August 14, 2024 – A Walk Through Hazardous Waste Regulations

When the EPA knocks on your lab door, will you be ready? Can you identify your hazardous waste generator status and do you have your eyes on the waste records? In this session you will walk through the requirements while learning how to put a complete chemical waste program in place in your laboratory.  

Speakers: Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP)SLS, CQA (ASQ), Dan the Lab Safety Man™, Williamsburg, VA

6. September 11, 2024 – If You Build It: Starting Your Lab Safety Team

Who is in charge of safety in your laboratory? Is it only one person? Learn how to expand and grow your safety team so that all aspects of safety management are handled at the same time. Keep your lab safe, inspection-ready and injury-free using these tips from Jason the Safety Liaison.  

Speaker: Jason P. Nagy, PhD, MLS (ASCP),QLS - Laboratory Safety Support Coordinator, Sentara Health

7. October 9, 2024 – Inspection Ready – OSHA and Lab Safety

OSHA’s safety regulations are geared to keep lab employees safe, and they steer the standards for other lab accrediting organizations as well. Learn about the government safety programs you must have in place, and how to prevent a focused OSHA inspection in your lab. If OSHA does show up on your doorstep, you will know how to handle that in this presentation also! 

Speaker: Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP)SLS, CQA (ASQ), Dan the Lab Safety Man™, Williamsburg, VA

8. November 13, 2024 –The Swiss Cheese Model- Closing the Holes in Lab Safety

How does a specimen make it through all phases of handling and testing when it is obviously mis-labeled? How does a blatant lab safety issue go unnoticed until someone is injured? Learn how to use “living” risk assessments and audits to close those holes in the cheese that allow safety incidents to occur. Use these tools to keep your staff safe and to improve your overall safety culture. 

Speaker: Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP)SLS, CQA (ASQ), Dan the Lab Safety Man™, Williamsburg, VA

Option 1 includes:

• the eight part lab safety webinar series ($800 value) for up to ten (10) participants per site (that’s only $50 per session if you use the early bird registration)
• does NOT include P.A.C.E.® contact hours (see ** below)

Option 2 (your best value option) includes:

• a one-on-one phone call between the site coordinator and Dan the Lab Safety Man™, a lab safety expert with over 30 years in the field prior to the start of the series ($150 value)
• the eight part lab safety webinar series ($800 value) for up to ten (10) participants (per site)
• eight (8) P.A.C.E.® contact hours of continuing education that can be used for recertification or licensure for up to ten (10) participants (+ 2 PACE credits for those in the Mastermind program)
• access to current safety information as it applies to the clinical laboratory from a variety of experts and sources
• enrollment in the 2024 Safety Mastermind Group
• unlimited access to laboratory safety experts until December 2024
• networking opportunities with your fellow safety officers to solve your safety issues in real time and avoid heavy OSHA penalties or lack of accreditation due to safety issues by CAP, COLA or the Joint Commission (priceless!)

Option 3 includes:

• a one-on-one phone call between the site coordinator and Dan the Lab Safety Man™, a lab safety expert with over 30 years in the field prior to the start of the series ($150 value)
• the eight part lab safety webinar series ($800 value) for up to ten (10) participants (per site)
• eight (8) P.A.C.E.® contact hours of continuing education that can be used for recertification or licensure up to ten (10) participants (+ 2 PACE credits for those in the Mastermind program)
• access to current safety information as it applies to the clinical laboratory from a variety of experts and sources
• enrollment in the 2024 Safety Mastermind Group (formerly the Concierge program)
• unlimited access to laboratory safety experts until December 2024
• one copy of The Complete Guide to Lab Safety- 5th Ed., authored by Dan Scungio and published by HCPro in 2019 ($250 value)
• one print copy of 52 Laboratory Safety Tips for Leaders authored by Dan Scungio ($25 value)
• Access to all eight 2023 Safety Academy webinar recordings all year ($400 value).
• Networking opportunities with your fellow safety officers to solve your safety issues in real time and avoid heavy OSHA penalties or lack of accreditation due to safety issues by CAP, COLA or The Joint Commission (priceless!)

Option 1 - $498 per site – ($800 value) – does NOT include P.A.C.E.® contact hours (see ** below)

Option 2 - $685 per site – ($1300 value) includes 10 P.A.C.E.® contact hours for up to 10 participants

Option 3 - $1055 per site – ($1800 value) includes 10 P.A.C.E.® contact hours for up to 10 participants

Early Bird Registration

If you register before December 1, 2023 you can SAVE $100 off any one of the options as follows:

Option 1 - $398 per site– ($800 value)– does NOT include P.A.C.E.® contact hours (see ** below)

Option 2 - $585 per site – ($1300 value) includes 10 P.A.C.E.® contact hours for up to 10 participants

Option 3 - $955 per site – ($1800 value) includes 10 P.A.C.E.® contact hours for up to 10 participants

Are you only interested in a few of the programs? 

     Each individual session can be purchased for $150

  Early Bird before 12/1/2023 - $99 per program

**Do you have a group at your site and plan to sign up for Option 1 but need P.A.C.E.® contact hours for the employees that participate?

8 P.A.C.E.® contact hours are available for an additional cost of $25 per person for the series.

Are you on a limited budget and need to make installment payments?

        Call 877-894-7004 for more information

Group rates for multiple sites also available! Call/e-mail for a quote!

This program is an ideal way to get continuing education for you and your staff without having to leave your laboratory! Are you too busy to view the scheduled live webinar? No problem! You can view the recorded session until the end of the year at your convenience. Do you have questions about the session? You can always contact Dan the Lab Safety Man or other members of the Academy to get answers.