Team:Cambridge/Safety

Safety

Please use this page to answer the safety questions posed on the safety page.

Autoclave Tour

The Autoclave Room

Barbara Landamore, demonstrating glassware ready for autoclaving

Glasses for autoclaving should be:

• Only partially filled: the solution will boil during autoclaving and hence expand
• Lidded (loosely) - gas must be able to escape (to prevent explosion)
• Labelled 'iGEM' so any problems can be reported back to us
• Left on the table to the right (see picture)
• Collected from the autoclaving room

Other equipment, e.g. petri dishes, should be bagged, labelled and placed in the yellow box to the right (see picture)

Items which are unsuitable for autoclaving (e.g. sharp pipette tips which could damage the autoclave bags) will not be autoclaved, but will be returned.