Lab Safety

If a fire erupts, IMMEDIATELY

• Notify the teacher

• Run for the fire extinguisher

• Throw water on the fire

• Open the windows

Approved eye protection devices are worn in the lab...

• To avoid eye strain.

• To improve your vision.

• Only if you don't have corrective glasses.

• Any time chemicals, heat, or glassware are used.

If you don't understand a direction of a lab experiment, 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.

All leftover chemical wastes should be:

• Left at the lab station for the next class.

• Disposed of according to your teacher's directions.

• Dumped in the sink.

• Taken home.

If you hurt yourself in the lab, you should:

• visit the school nurse after class.

• see a doctor after school

• tell the teacher at once.

• apply first aid yourself.

Long hair must be

• should be cut short.

• held away from the experiment with one hand.

• always neatly groomed

• tied back/kept out of the way.

Which of the following should NOT be worn during a lab?

• loose clothing

• dangling jewerly

• sandals

• all of the above

Horseplay, practical jokes, or pranks in the lab are:

• Always against the rules

• okay

• not dangerous

• okay if you are working alone

When handling animals, students should:

• open cages only with permission

• not tease or handle animals roughly

• report bites or scratches to the teacher immediately

• all of the above.

If a piece of equipment is not working properly

• tell the principal

• tell your lab partner

• tell your best friend in the class.

• tell the teacher.