lab safety and equipment

If you are not sure what to do during a lab activity:

• guess

• change lab partners

• ask a teacher for directions

• just sit quietly and do nothing

Keeping your work area neat and clean is important because:

• My teacher is a neat-freak
• I won't lose my supplies in the clutter.
• It keeps the room from looking messy.
• It helps prevent accidents.

I can perform my own experiments with lab materials ___.

• I am sure it is safe to do so.

• Whenever I want to.

• When all of my group is ready.

• When the teacher says its time to start

Disrupting other students in the laboratory with horseplay in the lab is:

• helpful.
• allowed
• dangerous.
• the quickest way to do a job.

What is the CORRECT procedure for students to follow if a chemical is spilled?

• Stand back and advise the teacher of the spill.
• Run madly out of the room.
• Splash large amounts of water onto the spill.
• Immediately ask to go to the restroom.

When in the lab you should wear...

• open-toed shoes.
• sandals.
• closed-toes shoes.
• no shoes.

Which of the following IS considered safety equipment in our classroom?

• Eyewash Station
• Emergency Shower
• Fire Extinguisher
• All of the Above.

You should report accidents to the teacher __.

• after the class is over

• immediately

• the following day

• when they feel like it

Which of the following are examples of dressing Appropriately in the lab?

• Pulling long hair back

• Leaving long hair down to get in the chemicals.

• Wearing sandals

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

• away from all people
• toward another classmate
• toward your lab partner
• toward yourself