Lab Safety Quiz

Flammable materials, like alcohol, should never be dispensed or used near...

• An open door

• An open flame

• Another student

• A sink

If a laboratory fire erupts, immediately

• Notify your instructor

• Run for the fire extinguisher

• Throw water on the fire

• Open the windows

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

• To avoid eye strain

• To improve your vision

• Only if you don't have corrective glasses

• Any time chemicals, heat, or glassware are used.

If you wear contact lenses in the school laboratory

• Take them out before you start the lab

• You do not have to wear protective goggles

• Advise your science instructor you wear contact lenses

• Keep the information to yourself

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

• Ask the instructor before proceeding

• Skip it and go on to the next part

After completing an experiment, all chemical wastes should be

• Left at your lab station for the next class

• Disposed of according to your instructors directions

• Dumped in the sink

• Taken home

If a lab experiment is not completed, you should

• Discuss the issue with your instructor

• Sneak in after school and work alone

• Come in during lunch and finish while eating lunch

• Make up some results

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

• Toward yourself

• Toward your lab partner

• Toward another classmate

• Away from all people

You are heating a piece of glass and now want to pick it up. You should

• Use a rag or paper towels

• Pick up the end that looks cooler

• Use tongs

• Pour cold water on it

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

• Visit the school nurse after class

• See a doctor after school

• Tell the science instructor at once

• Apply first aid yourself