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Stacked boxes of pipette tips in blue racks

liquid handling

Filter tips and aerosol risk

Decide when a filter tip reduces aerosol in the shaft, and keep the biosafety cabinet and the risk assessment in the workflow.

8 October 2026 · 7 min read

Safety goggles, lab coat, nitrile gloves and a face shield on a bench with an eyewash station behind

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

Safety goggles, lab coat, nitrile gloves and a face shield on a bench with an eyewash station behind

laboratory safety

Incident reporting without blame theatre

Incident, exposure, route, and corrective action are different words. This glossary shows what a useful report contains and what blame leaves out.

8 October 2026 · 8 min read

Modern research laboratory at dusk with researchers at benches and a city skyline through large windows

pcr amplification

PCR in a teaching laboratory

Plan a teaching PCR on a short amplicon from a safe plasmid, with shared cyclers, one-way gloves and a record the demonstrator keeps.

8 October 2026 · 8 min read

Safety goggles, lab coat, nitrile gloves and a face shield on a bench with an eyewash station behind

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

Safety goggles, lab coat, nitrile gloves and a face shield on a bench with an eyewash station behind

laboratory safety

Questions before a safety-equipment enquiry

Before you enquire about a cabinet or a hood, name who it protects, which test documents you will read, and who will maintain it.

8 October 2026 · 9 min read

Safety goggles, lab coat, nitrile gloves and a face shield on a bench with an eyewash station behind

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

Safety goggles, lab coat, nitrile gloves and a face shield on a bench with an eyewash station behind

laboratory safety

Training records and who may use a cabinet

A certified cabinet is not a trained user. The record should show who was shown the airflow, the sash height, and the signs of failure.

8 October 2026 · 8 min read

Safety goggles, lab coat, nitrile gloves and a face shield on a bench with an eyewash station behind

laboratory safety

Waste streams chemical biological and ordinary

Chemical, biological, sharps, and ordinary waste fail when they share a container. Follow one afternoon and see where the streams must stay apart.

8 October 2026 · 8 min read

Gloved hand pipetting into a tube near a cold block and agar plates with colonies, gel image on a monitor

molecular cloning

What to send for a gene synthesis enquiry

See which missing field blocks a gene-synthesis quotation: sequence, vector, host, sites, expression limits, and the biosafety of the DNA.

8 October 2026 · 7 min read