3212-Medical and Pathology Laboratory Technicians

Tasks include:

• conducting chemical analysis of body fluids, including blood, urine, and spinal fluid to determine presence of normal and abnormal components
• operating, calibrating and maintaining equipment used in quantitative and qualitative analysis, such as spectrophotometers, calorimeters, flame photometers, and computer-controlled analysers
• entering data from analysis of laboratory tests and clinical results into records-keeping systems and reporting results to medical practitioners and other health professionals
• analysing samples of biological material for chemical content or reaction
• setting up, cleaning, and maintaining laboratory equipment
• analysing laboratory findings to check the accuracy of the results
• establishing and monitoring programmes to ensure the accuracy of laboratory results and developing, standardising, evaluating, and modifying procedures, techniques and tests used in the analysis of specimens
• obtaining specimens, cultivating, isolating and identifying micro-organisms for analysis
• examining cells stained with dye to locate abnormalities
• inoculating fertilised eggs, broths, or other bacteriological media with organisms