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