Lab Safety

If a laboratory fire erupts, immediately

• notify your teacher
• run for the fire extinguisher
• throw water on the fire
• open a window

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
• skip it and go to the next part
• ask your teacher

After completing an experiment, all chemical wastes should be

• dumped down sink
• taken home
• thrown in trash
• disposed of according to teacher's directions

You are heating a substance in a test tube. Always point the open end of the tube

• towards your body
• toward your lab partner
• towards another classmate
• away from all people

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

• visit school nurse
• text your parent
• see a doctor after school
• tell teacher immediatly

Report any accident or injury to the teacher _______________, no matter how small it may appear

• at the end of the period
• immediately
• eventually
• after you get the situation under control

When is it OK to eat or drink in the lab?

• Always
• Never

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

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

• True
• False