This page provide links to a range of free, downloadable documents (SOPs, guidelines, templates, training materials, etc.) useful for clinical and research laboratories. These have been kindly shared by organisations that have developed them for use in their own work, and are happy to allow others to use them. The information and examples provided here are intended to assist Principal Investigators (PI) and laboratory personnel in developing SOPs and documents appropriate for their own laboratories. While the documents are mainly generic, please note that they will need to be carefully reviewed and adapted by the PI or laboratory manager before adopting them for use in their own laboratories. Please reference the Global Health Laboratories when you use them.
If you would be willing to share resources that you have developed, or to share amendments of these documents that you have made, email us on laboratories@theglobalhealthnetwork.org. Thank you for your input!
The resources have been organised by document type:
- Guidelines/Reference documents
- Laboratory Quality Management:
- Laboratory Quality Management Handbook _WHO http://www.who.int/ihr/publications/lqms/en/
- Country Lessons in QMS and Qccreditation_ASLM http://www.aslm.org/resource-centre/resource-library/accreditation/
- Laboratory Technical documents:
- Generic SOP
- SOPs for Clinical laboratory
- Research laboratory Protocols (Cell Biology, Cell culture, Immunology, Microbiology)
- Manual of Basic Techniques for a Health Laboratory
- Manual for the laboratory diagnosis of measles and rubella virus infection
- SOPs for Product quality testing laboratory
- SOPs for Proficiency testing laboratory
- SOPs for Bio banking
- SOPs for animal house and insectaria
- Laboratory Health and Safety documents:
- Laboratory Safety Check List example https://ehs.princeton.edu/sites/ehs/files/LabSafetyChecklist.pdf
- Health & Safety
- Biosafety & Chemical safety
- Animal lab and insectaria safety
- Fire & first aid
- Waste disposal
- Emergency preparedness