Batch 22- Safe Chemical Handling Quiz

What would immediately be used if your clothing caught fire or if a large chemical spill had occurred on your clothing?*

• Fire extinguisher

• Safety shower

• Safety Eye Washer

• Any Water Faucet next to you

What should be done in case of a chemical gets in the eye?

• Notify the supervisor; then use the eye-wash fountain, then use the shower.

• Use the eye-wash fountain; then return to the experiment and inform your immediate supervisor ones he/she comes.

• Use the eye-wash fountain; then notify the instructor

  unless the chemical causes discomfort

• Use the eye-wash fountain; then notify the instructor

  and seek the medical attention immediately regardless the magnitude of the injury if supervisor recommends.

Find the statement which is most applicable for chemical safety.

• All chemicals in the laboratory are not considered dangerous. Do not touch,taste, or smell any chemicals unless specifically instructed to do so. The proper technique for wafting chemical vapors will be demonstrated to you.

• Acids must be handled with extreme care. You will be shown the proper method for diluting strong acids. Always add acid to water, swirl or stir the solution and be careful of the heat produced,particularly with sulfuric acid. However, bases can be handled without any care.

• Never work alone. However, if your supervisors asks you to work alone,regardless of the safety, you must work to save the job.

• Dispose of all chemical waste properly.Never mix chemicals in sink drains.Sinks are to be used only for water and those solutions designated by the instructor. Solid chemicals, metals, matches,filter paper, and all other insoluble mate-rials are to be disposed of in the proper waste containers, not in the sink. Check the label of all waste containers twice before adding your chemical waste to the container

If you are the chemical safety officer in your workplace, what would you NOT do?

• Experiments must be personally monitored at all times. You SHOULD not wander around the room, distract your workers, with previous night news items

• Check the label on chemical bottles twice before removing any of the contents. ASK your fellow workers to follow the same to avoid any dangers

• When you enter the work place, since you are their supervisor, you are NOT supposed to wear PPEs

• Minimize the usage of murcury contianing instruments in the laboratory.

Where is the best place to store a chemical?

• Refrigerator

  with well ventilation

• Locked in a cabinet

  beside a furnace

• Next to the fire exit

• In a

  locked cabinet

  or room which has restricted access

 If a label says the chemical needs to be in a well ventilated room, what is the best thing you would do as a responsible chemical handler? However, you realize that the label does not follow GHS.

• Since the GHS procedure is violated, ignore it can continue your work

• Contact the vendor and ask for the reason why manufacturer did not follow the GHS and file a law suit

• Check the SDS and follow instructions there regardless whether the GHS is followed or not

• If you are not happy with the label, check the SDS, supervisor and manufacturer and get it confirmed. Still you are unhappy, you may return it.

Flammable chemicals are stored

• Near water sources

• In glass containers

• In special flammable storage lockers

• Where ever it is easy to get to

Choose the best answer.

(a) You should never wash out a vial if you are not familiar with the chemicals inside of it.

(b) You can let your hair down in the lab.

(c) Glasses count as eye protection.

(d) Just dump chemicals down the sink.

• False

  False

  False

  True

• True

  False

  False

  False

• False

  True

  False

  False

• True

  False

  True

  False

_________________are effects that occur rapidly subsequent exposure to and are of short duration

______________ are effects that develop slowly and have a long duration. They are often, but not always, irreversible.

• Deadliest Effects

  Chemical Effects

• Chronic Effects

  Acute Effects

• Deadliest Effects

  Biological Effects

• Acute Effects

  Chronic effects

What is the best definition of RISK?

• physical or mental damage

  the state of being free from illness or injury or

  possibility of something bad happening

  any source of potential damage

• Possibility of something bad happening

  any source of potential damage.

• physical or mental damage

  the state of being free from illness or injury.

• Harm or adverse health effects on something or someone.