Maintaining Sample Handling Actions

• Maintaining Sample Handling Actions
  • Sample Handling Scope
  • Properties of a Sample Handling Action
  • Use of Sample Handling Actions
  • Sample Handling Permissions

A sample handling action is an action applied to a sample portion during its management life-cycle.

Different samples need to be handled, disposed of, transported, cleaned up after, etc, in different fashions, based on their toxicity and danger.

Sample Handling Scope

Sample handling actions are created either with org-scope or lab-scope. An organisation or laboratory can contain multiple sample handling actions.

Properties of a Sample Handling Action

A sample handling action can have:

• A state to apply to portions—Used to set the state of portions to active or inactive.
• Duration—Used to determine the end date-time for a sample handling action applied to a portion.
• Special instruments and label text.

Use of Sample Handling Actions

Samples need to be handled, disposed, transported, cleaned up, and so on, in many different ways, based on their toxicity and hazardous nature. Sample handling actions are used to manage sample portions. A portion can be linked to a sample handling action.

When a sample portion is assigned to a location, the current sample handling action is set to the default sample handling action for the location (for example, when the portion's location is set to 'SHED1' then the portion's sample handling is set to 'STORE_90'). The SAM_TRACK_REG_LOCATION application preference allows for a default sample handling action, via the default location, to be assigned to 'As Received' portions when they are created for a sample during registration.

Sample Handling Permissions

Sample Handling records in CCLAS may be defined with either Laboratory scope or Organisation scope. Access to these records is controlled by the user’s assigned permissions to ensure that users can only manage records within their authorised scope.

• Laboratory scope – applies to a specific laboratory
• Organisation scope – applies across the organisation

Scope-based permissions ensure that users can only search, create, update, save, or delete Sample Handling records within the scope authorised by their assigned rights.