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.

Pouring chemicals down the sink

• Is never permitted.

• is always allowed

• is only allowed when the teacher isn't looking

• is only allowed if instructed by the teacher.

If you wear contact lenses/glasses in the school laboratory,

• notify your instructor but you still have to wear safety goggles.

• you do not have to wear safety googles

• take them out before starting the lab

• keep the information to yourself.

Approved eye protection devices (such as googles) 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.

After completing an experiment, all chemical waste should be

• left at your lab station for the next class.

• disposed according to your instructor's directions.

• dumped in the sink.

• taken home.

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.

Long hair in the laboratory must be

• cut short.

• held away from the experiment with one hand.

• always neatly groomed.

• tied back or kept entirely out of the way with a hair band, hair pins, or other confirming device.