Lab Safety

• Disposal of potentially hazardous biological substances in specially allocated bins (yellow biological hazard bins)
• Wet lab work is only conducted within the laboratory
• Benches are cleaned down with ethanol at the end of the day or after the completion of our experiments to disinfect them

Project Safety

• The E.coli strain, DH5α, we have chosen to manipulate is a safe strain as its genes cannot be transferred and it is less likely to mutate
• Multi-factorial control

Australian Law

• Working in an Australian laboratory places us under the Gene Technology Act 2000
• This means