text: 10 safety rules for the biomedical technician? need information for a paper doing in class due friday after thanksgiving section  3               general rules for working in a “biohazard” laboratory       1. no smoking, eating or drinking in the laboratory          2. no mouth pipetting at anytime       3. a labcoat must be worn whenever work involving biological material is being carried out and must be taken off before visiting non-laboratory areas (coffee rooms, shops, libraries, etc.)             4. all contaminated glassware must be disinfected before being placed for washing up  5.all spillages must be wiped up with either disinfectant or ethanol including spillages in centrifuge rotors   6.all materials which are potentially infectious should be inactivated (by disinfection or by autoclaving) before leaving the department for incineration.  glass pasteur pipettes and other broken glass may be sterilised by autoclaving before being placed with other glassware for disposal         7.all rubbish (with the exception of broken glass) from the laboratory should be disposed of by incineration     8.care must be taken when using any procedure which generates aerosols, to minimise exposure to potentially infectious agents    9.no unaccompanied visitors should be allowed into the lab.  10.wash your hands before you leave the laboratory!