A professional who cleans laboratory equipment, such as glassware, metal instruments, sinks, tables, and test panels, using solvents, brushes, and rags. Respnsibilities include:

• Mixes water and detergents or acids in container to prepare cleaning solution according to specifications.
• Washes, rinses, and dries glassware and instruments, using water, acetone bath, and cloth or hot-air drier.
• Scrubs walls, floors, shelves, tables, and sinks, using cleaning solution and brush.
• May sterilize glassware and instruments, using autoclave.
• May fill tubes and bottles with specified solutions and apply identification labels.
• May label and file microscope slides.
• May arrange specimens and samples on trays to be placed in incubators and refrigerators.
• May deliver supplies and laboratory specimens to designated work areas, using handtruck.
• May tend still that supplies laboratory with distilled water.
• May be designated Glass Washer, Laboratory when cleaning glassware.
• May maintain inventory reports and logs.