Volume 29, Number 4—April 2023
Online Report
Global Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Equipment Management and Sustainability and Implications for Pandemic Preparedness Priorities1
Jennifer N. Lasley
, Emmanuel O. Appiah, Kazunobu Kojima, and Stuart D. Blacksell
, Emmanuel O. Appiah, Kazunobu Kojima, and Stuart D. Blacksell
Table 5
Actions laboratories can take to address sustainability challenges through improved equipment maintenance and calibration for Equipment Management and Sustainability Survey conducted by World Organisation for Animal Health, 2019
| Action |
|---|
| Prioritize the equipment used most, with a particular focus on equipment needed most in an emergency to detect emerging diseases, such as African swine fever, African horse sickness, avian influenza, and coronavirus disease |
| Check annual operating budgets for equipment maintenance and calibration resources |
| Plan how to mobilize resources |
| Act to mobilize resources |
| Make/update list of calibration and maintenance service providers by equipment type, ready for an emergency |
| Offer calibration or preventive and corrective maintenance services to neighboring laboratories, if capacity exists |
| Train neighboring laboratories to conduct calibration or preventive and corrective maintenance, if capacity exists |
| Perform preventative maintenance on prioritized equipment without delay. |
| Plan the next check of prioritized equipment, and then do it on a regular basis |
| Train staff on proper preventative maintenance of prioritized equipment |
| Cultivate relationships with service providers |
| Have prioritized equipment calibrated without delay |
| Plan the next calibration verification of prioritized equipment, and then do it on a regular basis |
| Train staff to calibrate simpler prioritized equipment |
| Cultivate relationships with service providers |
| Have prioritized equipment repaired without delay |
| Plan the next check and calibration of prioritized equipment, and then do it on a regular basis |
| Train staff to do simple repair of prioritized equipment |
| Cultivate relationships with service providers |
| Perform equipment inventory review without delay |
| Plan the next equipment inventory and act to conduct on a regular schedule |
1Preliminary results from this article were presented at the Africa Society for Laboratory Medicine Virtual Conference, November 16‒18, 2021.
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