Lab Safety Quiz

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.

I must follow all instructions, written and verbal, about the laboratory procedures given by the teacher.

• True
• False

I will perform only those activities that have been authorized by the instructor.

• True
• False

Horseplay and pranks are appropriate in the science classroom at any time.

• True
• False

It's fine to smell chemicals directly from their containers.

• True
• False

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

• figure it out as you do the lab

• try several methods until something works

• ask the instructor before proceeding

• skip it and go on to the next part

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

• visit the school nurse after class

• see the doctor after school

• tell the science instructor at once

• apply first aid yourself

Helping to clean up the lab or classroom is the job of

• old students.
• transfer students.
• each and every student.
• only the teacher.

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

• TRUE
• FALSE

What should you do before you start lab?

• Read all the procedures
• Make sure your work area is neat
• Get teachers permission
• All of the above