Team:Macquarie Australia/Safety

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, DH5<&#x3B1> we have chosen to manipulate is less likely to mutate
  • Multi-factorial control

Australian Law