Laboratory Safety Quiz

Flammable materials, like alcohol, should never be dispensed or used near

• An open door.

• An open flame.

• Another student.

• A sink.

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 are used.

If you wear contact lenses in the school laboratory,

• Take them out before starting the lab.

• You do not have to wear protective goggles.

• Advise your science instructor that you wear contact lenses.

• Keep the information to yourself.

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.

• Skip it and go on to the next part.

After completing an experiment, all chemical wastes should be

• Left at your lab station for the next class.

• Disposed of according to your instructor’s directions.

• Dumped in the sink.

• Taken home.

If a lab experiment is not completed, you should

• Discuss the issue with your instructor.

• Sneak in after school and work alone.

• Come in during lunch and finish while eating lunch.

• Make up some results.

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

• Toward yourself.

• Toward your lab partner.

• Toward another classmate.

• Away from all people.

You are heating a piece of glass and now want to pick it up. You should

• Use a rag or paper towels.

• Pick up the end that looks cooler.

• Use tongs.

• Pour cold water on it.

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 science instructor at once.

• Apply first aid yourself.