A supervisor is the laboratory director's designee for monitoring compliance with all applicable regulations of the board and the department. Other duties include:

• Performing the duties of a technologist, if needed, in the specialty area(s) where licensure is held
• Assigning direct supervision responsibilities to licensed technologists if needed, while ensuring that direct supervision of technicians is properly performed.
• Evaluating technologists' and technicians' competency in running tests and reporting results
• Being available to all personnel to answer questions and resolve problems
• Providing day-to-day supervision of test performance, including on-site direct supervision of testing that is performed by technicians
• Ensuring that quality control is performed and corrective action taken if necessary
• Ensuring that no patient testing is reported until corrective action has been taken and the test system is properly functioning
• Providing orientation to all testing personnel
• Implementing a quality maintenance program