Team:Chalmers-Gothenburg/Safety
Internal safety training
All team members were required to participate in basic lab safety training before being allowed access to the labs. This training was organized by the Department of Systems and Synthetic Biology at Chalmers University of Technology, and consisted of a lecture and a tour of the labs, both held by the three research engineers responsible for the labs. The lecture educated the team about the safety rules and guidelines that are adhered to by everyone working in the labs such as chemical handling, waste handling, how to act in case an accident occurs and appropriate behavior in the lab in general. The tour of the labs educated the team about what equipment was available in the labs, where to find it and how to handle it in a safe way. After completing the training, the research engineers verified the competency of each team member.
Risk declarations
In addition to the basic safety training described above, before starting the lab work the team had to hand in risk declarations that in detail described the risks associated with the intended project. In order to make sure that everyone understood and participated in the writing of these declarations, the team was divided into three groups where each group handed in a separate document. When compiling these documents, all team members read the associated safety sheet for each chemical and machine that was to be used during experiments. After the risk declarations had been submitted to and approved by the research engineers, the team was allowed access to the labs. The three risk declarations written by the team are found below.
Further Reading
Check out the rest of our lab-related work by clicking on any of the images below! Go over the protocols used for the different types of Experiments performed, scroll through all of the 4 months of lab work documented in Notebook, read up on the details of the different Parts used, or go straight for the actual Results of all our hard work. Under Contribution we have documented how we contributed to iGEM by further characterizing already existing BioBricks.
