Science safety rules

What should you do if you don't understand the instructions?

• Try to figure it out

• Ask the teacher

• Do what you think you heard

Grab whatever your think you need for the lab on your way in

• True

• False

You may eat while working on a lab

• Always

• Sometimes

• Never

During a lab you should

• Read all procedures thoroughly

• Keep aisles and work space claear

• Never fool around

• All of the above

Keep hands away from face, eyes, mouth and body while using chemicals or preserved specimens.

• True

• False

When using knives or other sharp instruments

• carry by the handle with tip (point) down and away

• cut away from your body

• never try to catch a falling instrument

• all of the above

Contact lenses are allowed if

• You normally wear them

• You have permission from your instructor

• You forgot to take them out

Accidents should be reported to

• no one if they aren't that big

• your lab group or instructor

• your teacher (no matter how small an incident may be)

If chemicals come into contact with your eyes or skin how long should you wash them at the eyewash station?

• 2 minutes

• 5 minutes

• 10 minutes

• 20 minutes

If you don't use all of a chemical, its ok to return the rest to its original container

• True

• False