Team:Macquarie Australia/Safety

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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