hello everyone welcome to part two of our activity packaging specimens for shipment to referral site if you have not done part one of this activity please stop go back and complete part one of the activity if you have um then let's move on and debrief and look at what a triple packaging system should look like so on the slide you can see a diagram of what the triple packaging system looks like and you can see all the different layers clearly identified so you have the primary receptacle the secondary container and the tertiary packaging you Al
also have some other instructions and notes to help and please note that you also have this as a form of a job aid inside your resources so this is what a triple packaging system will look like in your resources you have also have another have another job aid which gives you pictorial guidance on how to properly package um specimens for shipment so it's always good to see a real life scenario as opposed to a diagram so that's also available for you in your resources and this job aid continues to provide some key points about how
to package the samples within those containers so on the diagram in front of us we can see that for these set of samples we have two types ones which require cooler temperatures refrigerated samples and ones which require ambient temperatures so you note that the cor pack has been put at the bottom and then you have insulation between the cor pack and the samples in the form of absorbent towels then you have the refrigerated specimens first you have some more absorbent tissue and then the ambient room temperatures so that all the samples have the adequate environment
they need to continue to be viable so again this is also part of the job age to and is available in your resources so let's move on to the activity which is packaging specimens for shipment to referral sides part two packaging the purpose is to safely and effectively package specimens using the supplied packaging materials what will you need you will need job aid one triple packaging system job 82 specimen packaging and shipping these are all available in your resources and we just review them you will also need specimen packaging materials from your lab so we
need conventional packaging and rudimentary packaging and once we have finished reviewing the slides I will give you examples of what we mean by conventional packaging and rudimentary packaging what will you do this activity you have to do as a lab team you will bring together members of your lab team and you will Assemble two identical sets of samples please choose samples and specimens that cut across all the processes that you perform in your lab or your department so that they they maybe more representative of the kind of samples that we will send out usually we
don't just send out one kind of sample or we may do but for this activity is good to also have different types of samples so that we can learn about different ways to package samples you will divide into two teams one team will be using conventional packaging and one team will be using rudimentary packaging each team will package a set of speciments with the supplied packaging materials using job aid one and two as a guide when each team has completed the exercise you will unpack the samples from the packaging layer by layer and note if
triple packaging has been achieved as you go along with this activity from the very beginning to the end you are going to be taking pictures of that step by step process and you are going to submit sub MIT those pictures to us as proof that you have performed the activity 48 hours before the live session and to know the dates and exact times when you have to submit this homework please refer to your homework list okay so now we said that we're going to split into two teams your lab team is going to split into
two teams and one team is going to use use conventional packaging to package their samples and one team is going to be using rudimentary packaging what do we mean this is an example of conventional Market um packaging and essentially this is the packaging that you can get on the market the official packaging that comes from companies Etc so you can see that these are specifically made um to for packaging and transportation of samples so they have all the right kind of labeling the right kind of requirements um everything so these are basically packaging that you
can buy on the open market that is specifically manufactured for the process of packaging and transporting samples so you can see examples and I'm sure you have these in your lab when we talk about rudimentary packaging we want to acknowledge that not every lab will have access to Conventional packaging but there is still a way of being able to transport samples while Meeting those same triple packaging principles and so on this on the slide here you can see what we're talking about when we refer to rudimentary packaging look around your lab and say that if
we did not have conventional packaging what could we use that will still meet the requirements of a primary a second or a ter receptacle and still allow us to achieve triple packaging for us to be able to transport our samples so for example instead of absorbent tissue we may use shredded paper right instead of ice packs that come from a manufacturer you may just look at ice packs that you produce in the lab instead of um specific biohazardous tape you can use normal seller tape and print out labels the the the main thing here is
for us to think about what can we do with what we have when we cannot access Market level packaging we can still do this okay so this is examples of what we mean by rudimentary and conventional packaging feel free to pause and rewind this video so that you can look further at both so one team will be using the conventional packaging one one team will be using the rudimentary packaging remember to take pictures along each step of the process and submit that 48 hours before the live session where we will debrief thank you
