Prepare the necessary equipment

5.1 Prepare the necessary equipment

5.1.1 The DCO shall ensure that equipment and supplies are adequate for the Sample Collection Session. The type of equipment may vary but, as a guideline, the following will be made available:

• Sterile needles

• Butterfly Needles

• Disposable plastic syringes

• Appropriate Vacutainer collection tubes to draw a predetermined volume of blood (these may include serum separator tubes or and/or EDTA (anti-coagulant) tubes, as required).

• Sterile disinfectant pads

• Gloves providing barrier protection

• Tourniquets

• A disposal container for bio-hazardous waste

• A bio-hazard spill kit

• Adhesive bandage and gauze

• A cool-box

• Sealed, tamper evident Sample transport kits

• Secure transport bags and seals

• Transport temperature monitoring device

• All doping control documentation, including doping control forms, Athlete notification forms, supplementary report forms, chain of custody forms, etc.

[5.1.1 Comment: Sufficient Sample Collection Equipment shall be made available to ensure that at all times an Athlete selected for Testing has a choice of at least three Blood Sample collection kits and two Sample transport kits. Furthermore sufficient Doping Control documentation should be supplied based upon the number of tests being conducted.] 5.1.2 Any sample collection equipment systems used shall meet the following minimum criteria:

• Have a unique numbering system incorporated into all containers used to identify the Sample.

• Have a sealing system that is tamper-evident.

• Ensure the identity of the Athlete is not evident from the equipment itself.

• Ensure that all equipment is clean and sealed prior to use.

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