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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 without notice.
- 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, living tissue mounted on slides) 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% ethanol.
- 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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