Lab Safety

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

• visit school nurse

• tell teacher immediately

• see a doctor after school

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

• at the end of the period

• immediately

• eventually

The proper technique for smelling chemicals is ______________

• keeping your nose close to the glassware

• wafting

If you break a glass container during lab, you should ___________________

• clean it up immediately

• Tell your teacher immediately

• leave it and tell your teacher after the lab is completed

Clean up ___________________

• only when you are asked

• as directed by your teacher

• is optional since a maid comes after school

Conduct yourself in a _____________ manner at all times in the laboratory.

• honest

• silly

• responsible

If you break glassware in the lab, you should...

• Tell the teacher
• Clean it up quickly before the teacher notices
• Scream at the top of your lungs

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

• figure it out as you do the lab.

• try several methods until something works.

• ask the teacher before proceeding.

• skip it and go on to the next part.

Long hair in the laboratory must be

• tied back or kept entirely out of the way with a hair band, etc.

• always neatly groomed.

• held away from the experiment with one hand.

• cut short.

When you finish working with chemicals, biological specimens, and other lab substances, always

• treat your hands with skin lotion.

• wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water.

• wipe your hands on a towel.