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- Eating and drinking is not allowed in microscope rooms
- Lab coats and gloves must be worn when working with viable biological material in the microscope rooms
- Slides, coverslips, tips and other sharps must be taken away or disposed of in the sharps bins provided. Do not leave specimens behind on benches or other surfaces. Specimens left behind in the microscope room will be disposed of.
- Gloves, tissues and other clinical waste must be disposed of in the yellow bins. DO NOT use the yellow bins for viable biological waste, liquids, food waste, slides and other sharps.
- All biological waste (e.g. viable cells in dishes or plates) must be taken out of the microscope rooms, decontaminated and disposed of as biological waste in autoclave bags or sharps bins.
- Any spills of biological material must be cleaned up and decontaminated immediately. Aqueous medium must be mopped up with towels and decontaminated using 70% ethanolIMS.
- Spills of aqueous medium directly onto microscope optics or components must be reported to the light microscopy facility immediately. Do not attempt to clean microscope optics yourself unless you have been trained to do so.
- Any coverslips and slides broken on the microscope must be removed and disposed of in the sharps bin. All small pieces of glass must be removed during the clean-up so there is no risk of injury to other users.
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- Vacate the room immediately. There will be mercury vapour in the air and mercury is toxic
- Close the door and lock it if possible. Otherwise find some way to warn others not to enter
- Contact or send someone else to contact a member of the light microscopy facility. They will arrange for UCL Hazardous Waste Service to come in and decontaminate the room after the mercury has cooled down and condensed onto surfaces. Contact details for the light microscopy facility are belowat the end of this document.
Microscope usage – booking and saving data
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