NBC 1 Chemistry Lab Safety

Who is responsible for cleaning up after a lab?

• Your lab partner

• Parents

• Teacher

• Every student

Long hair in the laboratory must be

• held away from the experiment with one hand.

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

• cut short

• always neatly groomed.

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.

The lab equipment seen in the image should be worn during a lab investigation when...

• using glassware.
• using chemicals.
• using heat/fire.
• using any of the above.

Identify the beaker.

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Keeping your work area and floor neat and clean is important because:

• my teacher is a neat freak

• it keeps the room from looking messy

• I won't lose my supplies in the clutter.

• It helps prevent accidents.

Return all unused chemicals to their original containers.

• True

• False

Choose the correct option for chemical disposal:

• Discard the chemicals in the trash

• Discard the chemicals in the sink

• Discard the chemicals on your friend

• Discard the chemicals according to written and/or verbal instructions

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

Which of the following hazard symbols means flammable?

• A

• B

• C

• D

What does this hazard symbol tell you about the substance being used?

• It is extremely hot

• It will give off radiation

• It is very toxic

• It is corrosive