Lab Safety

Approved eye protection devices (such as goggles) are worn in the laboratory

• to improve vision
• only if you don't wear glasses
• anytime heat, chemicals, or glassware are used
• to avoid eye strain

If a laboratory fire erupts, immediately

• notify your teacher
• run for the fire extinguisher
• throw water on the fire
• open a window

If you do not understand a direction or part of a lab procedure, you should

• figure it out as you do the lab
• try several methods until something works
• skip it and go to the next part
• ask your teacher

After completing an experiment, all chemical wastes should be

• dumped down sink
• taken home
• thrown in trash
• disposed of according to teacher's directions

You are heating a substance in a test tube. Always point the open end of the tube

• towards your body
• toward your lab partner
• towards another classmate
• away from all people

You have been injured in the laboratory (cut, burn, etc.). First you should

• visit school nurse
• text your parent
• see a doctor after school
• tell teacher immediatly

Report any accident or injury to the teacher _______________, no matter how small it may appear

• at the end of the period
• immediately
• eventually
• after you get the situation under control

The proper technique for smelling chemicals is ______________

• keeping your nose close to the glassware
• wafting
• to sniff only a small amount
• Trick question; you never are allowed to smell chemicals in class

When moving chemicals during labs, you should; 

• Move quickly so you can be in the way for the shortest time possible 
• Walking very slowly
• Hold them securely and walk carefully
• Yell out "Code One" so that everyone clears a path for you to walk through

If you break a glass container during lab, you should ___________________

• clean it up immediately
• yell "Code One" and letting your teacher clean it up
• alert your lab partners and other groups near you and tell your teacher
• leave it and tell your teacher after the lab is completed