Science Lab Safety

What should you do if you break glass in the lab?

• Tell the teacher.

• Sweep up the glass and put in trash.

• Pick up the glass with your hands.

• Ignore it; the teacher will clean it up when she sees it later.

Part of lab safety includes reading the lab procedure...

• before doing the lab
• while doing the lab
• after doing the lab
• only if you think you really need it

When working in the lab, you always...

• work with only members of your group with a business-like attitude
• ask questions when in doubt about procedures
• clean up after yourself 
• all of the above

If a fire erupts, immediately

• run for the fire extinguisher

• throw water on the fire.

• step away and notify the teacher.

• open the windows.

If you do not understand a direction or part of a laboratory procedure, you should

• ask the teacher before proceeding.

• skip it and go on to the next part.

• figure it out as you do the lab.

• try several methods until something works.

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

• only if you do not have corrective glasses.

• to avoid eye strain.

• to improve vision.

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

After completing an experiment, all chemcial wastes should be

• disposed of according to your teacher's directions.

• left a your lab station for the next class.

• taken home.

• dumped in the sink.

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

• visit the school nurse after class.

• see a doctor after school.

• tell the teacher.

• apply first aid yourself.

Long hair in the laboratory must be

• held away from the experiment with one hand.

• tied back or kept entirely out of the way with a hair band, etc.

• cut short

• always neatly groomed.

Horseplay, practical jokes, or pranks in the classroom are

• not dangerous.

• okay if you are working alone.

• always against the rules.

• okay.