Lab Safety and Safety Symbols Quiz

What should you do before you start your lab?

• Read all the procedures

• Make sure your work area is neat

• Get teachers permission

• All of the above

Tie back long hair, secure loose sleeves or other loose articles of clothing

• TRUE
• FALSE

Keep your work area free of all unnecessary books and papers

• TRUE
• FALSE

Examine all glassware before use

• TRUE
• FALSE

When should you wear safety goggles?

• When you look in the sun
• When working with chemicals, acids and bases and heating devices
• Anytime your in lab
• None of the above

If your lab partner gets chemicals in his/her eyes, the first thing you should do is

• Clean up spilled chemical
• Call 9-11
• Take them to eye wash and tell the teacher immediately
• Make the person sit down to calm their nerves

If you break glassware during a lab you should

• tell the teacher immediately

• Clear people out of the area and leave broken glass for a janitor

• Tell the teacher on the way out of class at the end of the period

• Try to clean it up yourself quickly so you won't bother anyone

During the lab it is okay to

• Have a snack
• Drink in lab
• Taste chemicals
• None of the above

When you are smelling a chemical you should

• Smell it directly
• Waft the odor
• Never smell
• Take a big sniff

Running in the lab is ok if you are not using chemicals

• TRUE
• FALSE