How does the WorkClear™ App work?
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Home Self-Collection Kits Now Available
At LifeLabs, we are committed to helping businesses minimize the spread of COVID-19 with our high-quality Home PCR Self-Collection Kit for employee testing. Our convenient home-based program allows employees to self-collect their PCR sample from the comfort of their own home at a time most suitable to them, anywhere in Canada. This is not a virtually observed collection, so no appointments are required. This kit includes step-by-step instructions for the minimally invasive nasal swab that is safe and easy to use. Once the sample is collected, the employee simply sends it back to LifeLabs and results are available to the company and employee within 48 hours of arrival at our processing lab.
Why Offer COVID-19 PCR Testing to your Employees?
- PCR Testing has high sensitivity that can detect infection early, even at low viral loads
- Widely accepted as the “gold standard” of COVID-19 testing
- Useful for reducing the spread or confirming suspected COVID-19 cases
- Testing is recommended only once per week
- Convenient, at home kits allow symptomatic employees to remain isolated and prevent potential spread
- It’s a safe and easy to use minimal invasive nasal swab
What is the process like for off-site testing?
Convenient and quick COVID-19 Workplace Screening!
Home PCR Collection Instructions
Watch the video below for a quick demonstration of sample collection
PCR Home Collection Kit FAQ
What is the COVID-19 Home Collection Kit?
LifeLabs now offers a convenient home collection kit for employees to test for COVID-19 safely and easily in the comfort of their home. The kit contains a swab, which you will insert between the lower gum and is rotated 3 times, this is then repeated on the other side of the mouth. It then goes 2cm into the nasal cavity and is rotated for 15 seconds, the same procedure is repeated on the second nasal cavity. It will then be sealed, packaged, and shipped to LifeLabs to be tested. You will receive your results within 48 hours of the sample being delivered to a LifeLabs laboratory.
What is in the kit?
A swab kit and tube, biohazard bag, absorbent strip, foil pouch, blank specimen label, blank requisition, optional winter kit freeze tag (when collection occurs during the winter months), collection and packing instructions, tamper evident label, FedEx shipping label, and return shipping envelope with a UN3373 label.
What do I do if the freeze indicator has been activated?
What details are required on the blank specimen label?
How do I arrange for a FedEx pick up?
Once you have collected your sample, contact FedEx at 1-855-344-3917 between 08:30 to 19:00 EST Monday to Friday to schedule a pickup.
Your home collection kit cannot be dropped off at a drop box or FedEx (FASC)
locations and should be picked up the same day your sample is collected if possible.
Please remember to keep track of your FedEx confirmation number to track your kit.
Can I drop off my completed sample at a LifeLabs collection centre or at Shopper’s Drug mart?
What if I need my sample to be picked up on the weekend?
Return to work with confidence.
As the world enters into a new normal, workplaces must equip themselves with new tools and processes that ensure employee health and safety.
Having completed 2 million COVID-19 tests and counting, let LifeLabs partner with your organization, ensuring you and your employees enjoy the highest standard of confidence when returning to work.