Team:Lambert GA/safety

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Safety
Everybody on the team participated in Lab Safety Training at Lambert High School and took a safety quiz. Additionally, 5 members of the team completed Right to Know, General Lab Safety, Biohazard training and Recombinant DNA Safety Training offered by Georgia Institute of Technology. As with any project involving culturing bacteria, appropriate safety measure were taken with our project. Though none of the bacteria we work with are human pathogens or environmental liabilities, it is possible that unwanted contaminants could be unintentionally cultured in large volumes. Therefore, we treat every culture as if it were dangerous and take important precautions, such as wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), cleaning up any spills with 10% bleach or 70% ethanol, and autoclaving all culture tubes and plates before disposing of their contents. Whenever the team was performing procedures, everybody wore safety goggles and gloves. We followed all procedures very carefully, and we were circumspect with cleanup after experiments. The team was supervised by Mrs. Standeven, Dr. Styczynski, and Mrs. Cochran the entire time we were in the Georgia Tech lab.

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+Everybody on the team participated in Lab Safety Training at Lambert High School and took a safety quiz. Additionally, 5 members of the team completed Right to Know, General Lab Safety, Biohazard training and Recombinant DNA Safety Training offered by Georgia Institute of Technology.
+As with any project involving culturing bacteria, appropriate safety measure were taken with our project. Though none of the bacteria we work with are human pathogens or environmental liabilities, it is possible that unwanted contaminants could be unintentionally cultured in large volumes. Therefore, we treat every culture as if it were dangerous and take important precautions, such as wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), cleaning up any spills with 10% bleach or 70% ethanol, and autoclaving all culture tubes and plates before disposing of their contents.
+Whenever the team was performing procedures, everybody wore safety goggles and gloves. We followed all procedures very carefully, and we were circumspect with cleanup after experiments.
+The team was supervised by Mrs. Standeven, Dr. Styczynski, and Mrs. Cochran the entire time we were in the Georgia Tech lab.