science lab safety

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

• Tell the teacher.
• Sweep up the glass.
• Pick up the glass with your hands.
• Ignore it; the teacher will clean it up when she sees it later.

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

The most important reasons for keeping your workspace neat is to ...

• make the teacher happy
• prevent accidents or unsafe situations
• lose materials in the lab
• prevent the room from looking messy

If a piece of equipment is not working

properly, stop, turn it off, and tell:

• the principal.

• your lab partner.

• your best friend in the class.

• the teacher.

Work areas should be kept clean and

tidy.

• True

• False

Read all procedures thoroughly before

performing a laboratory investigation.

• True

• False

It is okay to pick up broken glass with

your bare hands as long as the glass is

placed in the trash can.

• True

• False

You should never ______ chemicals in the lab. 

• taste
• touch
• smell
• all of the above

You should report accidents to the teacher __.

• after the class is over
• immediately 
• the following day
• never

When should you look over the experiment instructions? 

• After starting the lab
• When your teacher tells you to
• Before starting the lab
• It doesn't really matter.  Instructions are silly!