Pillar · laboratory safety
Biosafety basics for research benches
Research-bench biosafety is a stack of barriers chosen by a risk assessment. This page explains the stack. It does not approve the work.
8 October 2026 · 10 min read
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laboratory safety
Housekeeping is a safety control
Clear benches, labelled vessels, closed waste, and a dry floor are one control. Watch them applied during a single afternoon bench reset.
8 October 2026 · 8 min read
laboratory safety
PPE that matches the task
Match the coat, the gloves, and the eye protection to the route a splash or a contamination would take. Extra layers are not automatically safer.
8 October 2026 · 9 min read
laboratory safety
Risk assessment is a local document
A risk assessment records the agent, the procedure, the people, the place, and the controls. Copying another laboratory's sheet does not create one.
8 October 2026 · 10 min read
nucleic acid purification
RNase contamination on shared benches
Skin, dust, old racks and recycled tubes seed RNase on a shared bench. Separate contamination from inhibition, and know when a wipe is not enough.
8 October 2026 · 7 min read