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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question">7. Which chemicals are you using in your project that might be hazardous? <br></p> |
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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question">9. Part information is submitted in a spreadsheet.<br> |
<span class="question_note"><b>Instructions for parts spreadsheet:</b> Remember to change the filename of your spreadsheet! Put your team's name in place of "TeamName". Please visit this page to download a blank copy of the spreadsheet for this question.</span> | <span class="question_note"><b>Instructions for parts spreadsheet:</b> Remember to change the filename of your spreadsheet! Put your team's name in place of "TeamName". Please visit this page to download a blank copy of the spreadsheet for this question.</span> | ||
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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question"> 10. What experiments will you do with your organisms and parts? <br> |
<span class="question_note">Please explain briefly. We are particularly keen to understand the boundaries or scope of your project. You should include the names of species / cell lines / strains. You should include experiments involving parts taken from other organisms, even if they are being synthesized rather than isolated from nature – you need not include any parts already in the registry.</span></P> | <span class="question_note">Please explain briefly. We are particularly keen to understand the boundaries or scope of your project. You should include the names of species / cell lines / strains. You should include experiments involving parts taken from other organisms, even if they are being synthesized rather than isolated from nature – you need not include any parts already in the registry.</span></P> | ||
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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question"> 11. What risks could arise from these experiments?<br> |
<span class="question_note">For example, could they produce aerosols making it more likely that you could inhale something? Or are you using needles and could accidentally stick yourself? Could you produce something that is not inactivated using standard lab protocols? If you are not conducting any experiments, please note this.</p> | <span class="question_note">For example, could they produce aerosols making it more likely that you could inhale something? Or are you using needles and could accidentally stick yourself? Could you produce something that is not inactivated using standard lab protocols? If you are not conducting any experiments, please note this.</p> | ||
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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question">13. Imagine that your project was fully developed into a real product that real people could use. How would people use it? <br> |
<span class="question_note">Check all appropriate boxes and expand in the comments section. | <span class="question_note">Check all appropriate boxes and expand in the comments section. | ||
(Note: iGEM teams should not release modified organisms into the natural environment but you could imagine such a release if your project was fully developed.) </span> | (Note: iGEM teams should not release modified organisms into the natural environment but you could imagine such a release if your project was fully developed.) </span> | ||
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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question">14. What safety, security or ethical risks would be involved with such a use?<br> |
<span class="question_note">Virtually all modern life science and biotechnology carries with it some risks. These can be identified and managed helping to ensure your work makes a positive impact on the world. Basic risks are managed for you in many institutions. As you think about how your project might enter the real world, being a responsible biological engineer will require you to think about and manage these risks yourselves. You can find some great resources on the <a href="https://2020.igem.org/Safety">Safety and Security</a> and <a href="https://2020.igem.org/Human_Practices">Human Practices</a> hubs on our wiki. It is even possible that software projects could also pose relevant risks.</span> | <span class="question_note">Virtually all modern life science and biotechnology carries with it some risks. These can be identified and managed helping to ensure your work makes a positive impact on the world. Basic risks are managed for you in many institutions. As you think about how your project might enter the real world, being a responsible biological engineer will require you to think about and manage these risks yourselves. You can find some great resources on the <a href="https://2020.igem.org/Safety">Safety and Security</a> and <a href="https://2020.igem.org/Human_Practices">Human Practices</a> hubs on our wiki. It is even possible that software projects could also pose relevant risks.</span> | ||
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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question">15. How will experts overseeing your project help to manage any of the risks you identified in this form?<br> |
<span class="question_note"> | <span class="question_note"> | ||
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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question">16. What rules or guidance cover your work which could help to manage any of the risks you identified in Part 2 of this form (in particular Question 10)?<br> |
<span class="question_note">For example: In your country / region, what are the laws and regulations that govern biosafety or biosecurity in research laboratories? Please give a link to these regulations, or briefly describe them if you cannot give a link.What are the guidelines for laboratory biosafety and biosecurity? Please give a link to these guidelines, or briefly describe them if you cannot give a link.</span> | <span class="question_note">For example: In your country / region, what are the laws and regulations that govern biosafety or biosecurity in research laboratories? Please give a link to these regulations, or briefly describe them if you cannot give a link.What are the guidelines for laboratory biosafety and biosecurity? Please give a link to these guidelines, or briefly describe them if you cannot give a link.</span> | ||
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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question">17. Have your team members received any safety training?<br> |
<span class="question_note">For the purposes of iGEM, biosafety and biosecurity training covers the procedures and practices used to manage risks from accidents or deliberate misuse of your projects to your team, colleagues, communities and the environment. All team members are expected to be aware of these risks and to work to manage them. | <span class="question_note">For the purposes of iGEM, biosafety and biosecurity training covers the procedures and practices used to manage risks from accidents or deliberate misuse of your projects to your team, colleagues, communities and the environment. All team members are expected to be aware of these risks and to work to manage them. | ||
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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question">19. Which work areas do you use / are you using to handle biological materials? </br> |
<span class="question_note">Please check all the containment provisions you are using. If you are using more than one space please check all that apply and note this in the other work area box.</span> | <span class="question_note">Please check all the containment provisions you are using. If you are using more than one space please check all that apply and note this in the other work area box.</span> | ||
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<span class="question_note">Help about <a href="https://2020.igem.org/Safety/Risk_Groups"> Risk Groups and Safety Levels</a><br> If you are working in a biosafety cabinet it may be a biosafety level 2 space (then select Level 2), but biosafety cabinets are sometimes also used in a biosafety level 1 laboratory to provide a sterile work space (then select Level 1). If in any doubt, please discuss this with a biosafety professional or your instructors, supervisors or lab techs to make sure you understand how the equipment you use helps to manage risks. | <span class="question_note">Help about <a href="https://2020.igem.org/Safety/Risk_Groups"> Risk Groups and Safety Levels</a><br> If you are working in a biosafety cabinet it may be a biosafety level 2 space (then select Level 2), but biosafety cabinets are sometimes also used in a biosafety level 1 laboratory to provide a sterile work space (then select Level 1). If in any doubt, please discuss this with a biosafety professional or your instructors, supervisors or lab techs to make sure you understand how the equipment you use helps to manage risks. | ||
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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question">21. What other risk management tools will cover you work? <br> |
<span class="question_note">Please select as many as are relevant, including those that happen automatically at your institution and are not specifically connected to your project. If in any doubt, please discuss this with a biosafety professional or your instructors, supervisors or lab techs to make sure you understand how the equipment you use helps to manage risks.</span> | <span class="question_note">Please select as many as are relevant, including those that happen automatically at your institution and are not specifically connected to your project. If in any doubt, please discuss this with a biosafety professional or your instructors, supervisors or lab techs to make sure you understand how the equipment you use helps to manage risks.</span> | ||
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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question">22. How will the rules, training, containment and other procedures and practices help to manage any of the risks you identified in Part 2 of this form (in particular Question 10)?</br> |
<span class="question_note"> | <span class="question_note"> | ||
Please give details of any steps you have taken to manage any risks identified. This might include how any of the following have helped manage risks: the rules you identified, the training you have had, the equipment you have used, the spaces you have worked in, and the procedures and protocols you have followed. It might also include things you deliberately didn't do. For example, if you are not conducting any experiments, especially on grounds of safety, security or as a responsible scientist / engineer, please note this. Examples might include, making sure you only use non-pathogenic strains of an organism, deciding that animal use experiments are not yet warranted, or avoiding plant infection experiments because the affected plant is found in your country. Please also consider waste treatment – how will you know that any waste produced in your project will be successfully inactivated?</span> | Please give details of any steps you have taken to manage any risks identified. This might include how any of the following have helped manage risks: the rules you identified, the training you have had, the equipment you have used, the spaces you have worked in, and the procedures and protocols you have followed. It might also include things you deliberately didn't do. For example, if you are not conducting any experiments, especially on grounds of safety, security or as a responsible scientist / engineer, please note this. Examples might include, making sure you only use non-pathogenic strains of an organism, deciding that animal use experiments are not yet warranted, or avoiding plant infection experiments because the affected plant is found in your country. Please also consider waste treatment – how will you know that any waste produced in your project will be successfully inactivated?</span> | ||
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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question">23. Are you planning to/ have released any organism or product derived from your project? |
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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question">26. Are you planning to use, or using any parts not on the <a href="https://2020.igem.org/Safety/White_List">Whitelist?</a></p> |
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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question">27. Are you planning to carry out any of the activities not on the Whitelist?<br> |
<span class="question_note">These include experiments likely to bias the inheritance frequency of a genetic marker in an organism’s progeny, such as through the creation of a gene drive, experiments likely to confer resistance to the World Health Organization's list of Critically Important Antimicrobials, and experiments likely to increase the hazard posed by your project.</span> | <span class="question_note">These include experiments likely to bias the inheritance frequency of a genetic marker in an organism’s progeny, such as through the creation of a gene drive, experiments likely to confer resistance to the World Health Organization's list of Critically Important Antimicrobials, and experiments likely to increase the hazard posed by your project.</span> | ||
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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question">28. Are you planning to use, or using any parts or organisms obtained from outside the lab or regular suppliers?</p> |
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− | <p class="question"> | + | <p class="question">29. What else can you tell us about any risks associated with your project, how you are managing them, or your compliance with iGEM’s safety and security <a href="https://2020.igem.org/Safety/Rules">rules</a> and <a href="https://2020.igem.org/Safety/Policies">policies?</a> |
<br> | <br> | ||
<span class="question_note">This can include any improvements you would like to see to our safety and security efforts, or anything that has not been sufficiently clear, or where additional guidance would be useful, or where you see important uncertainties.</span> | <span class="question_note">This can include any improvements you would like to see to our safety and security efforts, or anything that has not been sufficiently clear, or where additional guidance would be useful, or where you see important uncertainties.</span> |
Revision as of 18:36, 14 May 2020
Safety Form
The purpose of this form is for everyone, including iGEM, to know you are doing your project safely and securely. This is how we know that everyone in iGEM is assessing and managing any risks to yourselves, your colleagues, communities or the environment. If you don't tell us how you are dealing with these risks, we don't know. Being transparent about any possible risks and how we are managing them is a key component of being a responsible scientist or engineer - so please answer the questions as fully as possible.
Complying with the safety and security requirements is a condition of competing at iGEM - that includes providing all the information in this form by the relevant deadlines. Failure to do so can lead to immediate disqualification from the competition and referral to the Responsible Conduct Committee.
Deadlines
The form should be updated throughout the project whenever there is a change that alters possible risks or the procedures, practices and containment provisions being used to manage them.
Due Date: June 26, 11:59PM EDT
An initial version of this form, with as much information as possible, is to be provided by the team.
Due Date: September 11, 11:59PM EDT
A final version of this form must be signed off by the PI.
Approach
In general, we are looking for information in four areas. We want you to explain:
- An overview of what you are trying to accomplish (Part 1);
- What risks might be connected to your project now or in the future (Part 2);
- What procedures, practices and containment provisions you are using to manage the risks you identify (Part 3); and
- That you are complying with iGEM’s safety and security rules and policies (Part 4).
Other required safety and security information
Any time you are planning to use an organism or part not on the White List the team needs to submit a Check-in Form before using them.
Any time you are planning to use a vertebrate animal in your project the team needs to submit an Animal Use Form before using them.
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