Safety

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Safety

Before answering these questions on your team Safety page, be sure to read the Safety in iGEM page. and the FAQ section below.

Key questions

For iGEM 2012, teams are asked to detail how they approached any issues of biological safety associated with their projects. Specifically, teams should consider the following questions:

  1. Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of:
    • researcher safety,
    • public safety, or
    • environmental safety?
  2. Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this year raise any safety issues? If yes,
    • did you document these issues in the Registry?
    • how did you manage to handle the safety issue?
    • How could other teams learn from your experience?
  3. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution?
    • If yes, what does your local biosafety group think about your project?
    • If no, which specific biosafety rules or guidelines do you have to consider in your country?
  4. Do you have any other ideas how to deal with safety issues that could be useful for future iGEM competitions? How could parts, devices and systems be made even safer through biosafety engineering?

 

Teams, please document any answers to these safety questions on your wiki safety page. Judges will be asked to evaluate your project, in part, on the basis of if and how you considered and addressed issues of biological safety. If any questions arise regarding iGEM and biological safety please send an email to safety AT igem.org.


Contents

Question 1: Why does iGEM ask teams to address safety questions and screen projects?

FAQ

2.Do any of the new biobrick part (or device) that you made this year raise any safety issues?
*If yes, How did you manage to handle the safety issue?
Yes we do. To handle the security issue of our work, we always consult with the team advisor and instructor who handle the laboratory security work in IPB. Our security is guaranteed by following the standard operating procedures which provided in each laboratory. As a mechanism to ensure the safety of our work, first of all we started it by product testing step in the laboratory before applying it in nature, so when the result is guaranteed safely, it can be applied in nature.

*How could other teams learn from your experience?
Other teams can learn from the procedure that we have used. We use the common procedure that is used by molecular researchers at the laboratory, so its safety has been tested (as long as we follow the standard operation procedure had been given).

Question 3: We need clarification on the safety questions. Would you please provide guidance on each iGEM safety question?

1. Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of:

  • researcher safety,
  • public safety, or
  • environmental safety
Guidance:

There are three recommended steps in addressing this question.

  1. To start, please list organisms you are using and organisms from which your parts are derived, indicating the risk group or biosafety level for each. For help, see Table 1 and 2 of the World Health Organization (WHO) Laboratory Biosafety Manual. You are welcome to use your national standards if you prefer. If national standards do not use the WHO 1-4 scale, please provide a link to an explanation of your standards.
  2. Then consider risks to team members, publics and environment if the project goes according to plan. Please describe risks posed by lab equipment and chemicals as well as biological parts and organisms. How are you addressing these issues in project design and lab work? Have you received biosafety training and other laboratory safety training? If so, please briefly describe the training.
  3. Then consider risks to team members, publics and environment if the project does not go according to plan. What are risks if safety measures such as containment procedures go wrong and organisms or parts are released? What are risks to security from malicious misuse? How are you addressing such risks?


2. Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this year raise safety issues? If yes,

  • Did you document these issues in the Registry?
  • How did you manage to handle the safety issue?
  • How could other teams learn from your experience?

3. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution?

  • If yes, what does your local biosafety group think about your project?
  • If no, which specific biosafety rules or guidelines do you have to consider in your country?



4. Do you have any other ideas how to deal with safety issues that could be useful for future iGEM competitions? How could parts, devices and systems be made even safer through biosafety engineering?

To ensure the biosafety, it will be more certified for documents which related materials provided to the participants. Each institution must have own fire fighters and integrates directly with the center of fire fighters and the local police. iGEM is required to add a safety tool for iGEM participants in the DNA kit. To minimize hazardous chemicals, so far the equipment that is used is fairly easy to control these biosafety. The system is recommended to used, better security, is an safety accordance, such as safety SOP, JSA (Job Safety Analyst).

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