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'''1. Purpose'''
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'''1. Introduction'''
  
**  general description of the SOP purpose
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This documentation is required for everyone who is or expects to use the LBL BioLab. It lays out in series the main procedures that have been
 
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validated in the laboratory and the best practice approach to carrying them out in order to promote the safety of the individual users and other people in the vicinity of the work, to generate reliable and repeatable results from the procedures carried out and to minimise damage to and maintain the condition of equipment and instrumentation used.<br><br>
'''2. Scope'''
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It is essential that all users of the lab first undergo the laboratory induction as described in LBL02001 and should also read any Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that relate to the work they intend to carry out.<br>
 
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This should be performed and checked by the Biological Safety Officer (BSO) and recorded. LBL03001 describes the role of the BSO and of the Safety Comity (SC) in establishing, validating and in ensuring the conformation to the SOPs.<br>
**  the extent of the SOP in terms of to what equipment and procedures it applies, also when and where (which will always be at all times in the LBL lab).
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In section 4 a range of SOPs exist which describe the usage of the equipment and instrumentation in the laboratory.<br>
 
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Section 5 explains Containment Level 1 (CL1) and the requirements for performing work in this setting.<br>
'''3. Responsibilities'''
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Further, any new projects should have a risk assessment carried out before commencing work. This process for doing this is described in LBL06001.<br>
 
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Section 7 contains a range of procedures for performing molecular biology work many of which may require CL1 conditions to be in place.<br>
**  for who is the procedure relevant, typically the operator and anyone present while it's carried out, it's also worth mentioning the risks here and that the operator is responsible for their health and safety and that of anyone else present during the procedure.
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Section 8 describes general laboratory maintenance, cleaning and metrology where necessary.<br>
 
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'''4. Materials'''
 
 
 
**  Are there any extra materials required, in the case of operating an instrument, peice of equipment or in a molecular biology procedure this might be consumables, reagents, chemicals or other instrumentation, e.g pipets. Any special PPE can be mentioned here.
 
 
 
'''5. Related documents'''
 
 
 
**  Are other SOPs (or other documents within our framework) related to this procedure. If so then listing them here can be useful, for example the media prep SOP might be relevant when carrying out the transformation procedures and it saves time to link it here rather than describe the preparation of media in every procedure where it is used (bit like an include/import/use lol).
 
 
 
'''6. Definitions'''
 
 
 
**  Any useful glossary stuff
 
e.g:
 
SOP = Standard Operating Procedure
 
 
 
'''7. Procedures'''
 
 
 
** 7.1  The actual steps of the procedure go here ...
 
        7.1.1 They can be embeded/indented as much as is reasonably helpful to describe the procedure step by step
 
** 7.2 It should be written in such a way that it would help anyone new to the lab to perform the procedure without having prior expertise.
 
 
 
'''8. Resources'''
 
 
 
** This is where eternal useful documention can be linked, much like the references section in any academic paper.
 
 
 
 
 
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Revision as of 21:45, 1 November 2014

The LBL BioLab Standard Operating Procedures

Author: Approved by: S. Thompson SOP No. LBL01001
Signed: Signed: Effective from:
Date: Date: Last edited:

1. Introduction

This documentation is required for everyone who is or expects to use the LBL BioLab. It lays out in series the main procedures that have been validated in the laboratory and the best practice approach to carrying them out in order to promote the safety of the individual users and other people in the vicinity of the work, to generate reliable and repeatable results from the procedures carried out and to minimise damage to and maintain the condition of equipment and instrumentation used.

It is essential that all users of the lab first undergo the laboratory induction as described in LBL02001 and should also read any Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that relate to the work they intend to carry out.
This should be performed and checked by the Biological Safety Officer (BSO) and recorded. LBL03001 describes the role of the BSO and of the Safety Comity (SC) in establishing, validating and in ensuring the conformation to the SOPs.
In section 4 a range of SOPs exist which describe the usage of the equipment and instrumentation in the laboratory.
Section 5 explains Containment Level 1 (CL1) and the requirements for performing work in this setting.
Further, any new projects should have a risk assessment carried out before commencing work. This process for doing this is described in LBL06001.
Section 7 contains a range of procedures for performing molecular biology work many of which may require CL1 conditions to be in place.
Section 8 describes general laboratory maintenance, cleaning and metrology where necessary.