Lab Safety

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

• Guess

• Change lab partners

• Ask the teacher

• Just sit quietly and do nothing

2. 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

3. I can perform my own experiments with lab materials ___.

• when I am sure it is safe to do so and I have received permission.

• whenever I want.

• When all of my group is ready.

• Never

Disrupting other students in the laboratory with horseplay and joking 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 th spill.

• Run madly out the room.

• Splash large amounts of water onto the spill.

• Immediately ask to go to the restroom.

Why are safety goggles necessary in some lab situations?

• Improves vision.

• Prevents eye strain.

• Eye protection from heat, chemicals, or glassware.

• Fashion Statement.

Helping to clean up the lab or classroom is the job of...

• Old Students

• Transfer Students

• Each and every student.

• Only the teacher.

8. When you walk into the room and see lab materials, what is the first thing you do?

• Run around the room

• Start the experiment

• Put on safety goggles.

• Wait patiently for instructions and leave materials alone

9. Which of the following IS considered safety equipment located in the lab classrooms?

• Eyewash Station

• Emergency Shower

• Fire Extinguisher

• All of the above

10. You should report accidents to the teacher __.

• After class

• Immediately

• The next day

• Never