BioTech Lab Safety

NO FOOD OR DRINK IN THE LAB!

Protective gear:

-Wear gloves when handling any chemicals, samples or reagents. This is often to protect the sample from you as much as to protect you from the sample.

-Splash proof safety goggles are recommended when working with acids, bases and oxidizers. There is an emergency eyewash kit next to the kit if you decide to ignore recommended procedure.

-Heat protective gloves are kept near the autoclave. Autoclaved materials and boiled things are hot. Use the gloves or start buildin up your callouses.

-Wash your hands before you leave the lab space. Use a paper towel to turn off the tap to prevent recontaminating yourself.

-Never touch, taste or directly smell anything.

-LABEL YOUR TUBES CLEARLY! An anonymous liquid has to be assumed potentially hazardous.

-If you're not sure where to throw something away, contaminated liquid media gets bleached and sent down the drain. Other non-organic liquids should be sent down the drain with water. For solid waste, if at all questionable, goes in the biohazard waste.