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Team:Tyngsboro MA Tigers/Safety
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Safety
Each member of the Tyngsborough iGEM Tiger Squad has learned and currently follows the Flynn's scientific safety contract. Each year, we take a scientific safety refresher to brush up on our safety procedures. We were always supervised in our labs by our Team Leader, Ms. Ravgiala.
Click here for a link to a funny Youtube video of what NOT to do in a lab setting. (All credit goes to the producer of the video Zach Lipovsky.)
Click here for the Safety Contract read and signed by all students.
Environmental Dangers With our device, the largest environmental concern is proper disposal of the bacteria themselves and the chemicals we were using. As we were never able to test our theoretical device, the concerns of using carbon monoxide were not a concern. We were always careful to properly dispose of cell growth plates and micro tubes, always letting them seit for 20 minutes in 10% bleach and sealing them properly. Chemicals that could be possibly considered dangerous were always used in a waste hood and disposed of properly.
Environmental Dangers With our device, the largest environmental concern is proper disposal of the bacteria themselves and the chemicals we were using. As we were never able to test our theoretical device, the concerns of using carbon monoxide were not a concern. We were always careful to properly dispose of cell growth plates and micro tubes, always letting them seit for 20 minutes in 10% bleach and sealing them properly. Chemicals that could be possibly considered dangerous were always used in a waste hood and disposed of properly.
Personal Safety Procedures Our whole team was always supervised by an instructor, and wore gloves, goggles, and aprons. We used different antibiotics in our transformations, such as ampicillin, and were always very careful and handled them in the safety hood.
Sterile Handling Techniques When using the bacteria, we never re-used pipette tips or other transferal equipment that had a chance of contaminating the bacteria. We wore gloves at all times when handling bacteria, and were certain to clean all equipment before and after use and kept all equipment sterile during lab procedures. All materials, whether they were reusable or being thrown out, were cleaned thoroughly and with bleach when applicable.
Demonstrating Safety At iGEM
