Difference between revisions of "Team:Macquarie Australia/Safety"
Noniriddell (Talk | contribs) |
Noniriddell (Talk | contribs) |
||
| Line 49: | Line 49: | ||
<br> | <br> | ||
<br> | <br> | ||
| − | + | <p> | |
<h1> Project Safety </h1> | <h1> Project Safety </h1> | ||
<ul> | <ul> | ||
| Line 55: | Line 55: | ||
<li> Multi-factorial control </li> | <li> Multi-factorial control </li> | ||
</ul> | </ul> | ||
| + | </p> | ||
<br> | <br> | ||
| − | + | <p> | |
<h1> Australian Law </h1> | <h1> Australian Law </h1> | ||
<ul> | <ul> | ||
| Line 67: | Line 68: | ||
<li> </li> | <li> </li> | ||
</ul> | </ul> | ||
| − | + | </p> | |
</html> | </html> | ||
Revision as of 13:23, 1 October 2017
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
