Team:Shanghai Metro HS/Safety
SAFETY
Laboratory Rules
Before carrying out any lab work, each member of Ceres must follow the rules below
strictly:
● wear a lab coat
a lab coat protects team members
against any contaminants, e.g. chemicals, bacteria… in order to reduce the
level of health risks.
● wear a mask
mask prevents team members from
contaminants that might get into their respiratory system.
● wear a pair of nitrile gloves
Nitrile gloves protect team
members’ hands from contamination. Gloves also ensure that all equipment in the
lab will not be contaminated by a team member’s hand, which eventually produces a reliable experiment
outcome.
Laboratory Supervision
Ceres’ wet team had a coach, Ms. Song who guided us through the whole project as
well as supervised all procedures. On the very first day in the laboratory, she gave us a laboratory safety
training section and introduced us to every single lab equipment that we will use throughout the project
period as well as the guidance to use them. Before we started off an experiment, she introduced every
chemical involved and analyzed the potential risks associated. We also had a teaching assistant who help
supervised our works and ensured neither dangerous action nor high-potential risk around.
Microorganism Safety
In our project, we only use escherichia coli BL21 which is commonly used in the
laboratory and little harm to human bodies.