Lab Safety

If a laboratory fire erupts, immediately

• Notify your instructor

• Run for the fire extinguisher

• Throw water on the fire

• Open the windows

Approved eye protection devices (such as goggles) are worn in the laboratory

• To avoid eye strain

• To improve your vision

• Only if you don't have corrective glasses

• Any time chemicals, heat, or glassware is used

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

• Any time chemicals, heat, or glassware is used

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

• Visit the school nurse after class

• See a doctor after school

• Tell the instructor at once

• Apply first aid yourself

Long hair in the laboratory must be

• Cut short

• Held away from the experiment with one hand

• Always neatly groomed

• Tied back entirely

In the laboratory the following should not be worn

• Loose clothing

• Dangling jewelry

• Sandals

• All of the above

Horseplay or practical jokes in the lab are

• Always against the rules

• Okay

• Not dangerous

• Okay if you are working alone

Lab work can be started immediately upon entering the lab even if the instructor is not yet present.

• True

• False

You should read all procedures thoroughly before starting a lab.

• True

• False

You are allowed to enter the chemical prep/storage area any time you need something.

• True

• False