, Vijay Kumar

Background: Biosafety among lab technician is an important aspect and needs to be assessed. Present study was conducted to find out awareness of biosafety precautions amongst technicians working in laboratory. It determined the knowledge, attitude, and practice of universal precautions amongst medical laboratory technicians. Material and Methods: Cross-sectional study of health care workers was conducted using a standardized self-administered questionnaire, which enquired about knowledge, attitude and practices of universal precautions. Participants included; Medical laboratory technicians working in Pathology, Microbiology, and Biochemistry departments in Krishna Institute of Medical Science, Karad. Result: In this study 19 technicians from Biochemistry, Pathology and Microbiology were involved. Accordingly in knowledge in pathology 50 % of study subjects were having average and 50 % were having good scores while in biochemistry 25 % had average and 75 % had good scores and in microbiology 100% of study subjects had good grade. For attitude, in pathology dept 83.3 % had average and 16.7 % had good grades. In biochemistry 12.5 % had poor grades, 75 % had average grades and 12.5 % had good grades. In microbiology 100 % had good grades. For practice in pathology dept 16.7 % had poor grades, 66.7 % ha