CHEM 10 🥼📝 Lab Safety Skills Check (Rozeboom)

If a laboratory fire erupts, immediately

• notify Ms. Rozeboom
• 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 eyeglasses (corrective lenses)
• 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 Ms. Rozeboom 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 Ms. Rozeboom 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 Ms. Rozeboom's directions
• dumped in the sink
• taken home

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

• use a rag or paper towel
• pick up the end that looks cooler
• use tongs
• pour cold water on it

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

• visit the school nurse after class
• see a doctor after school
• tell Ms. Rozeboom
• apply first aid yourself

When gathering glassware and equipment for an experiment, you should

• read all instructions carefully to know what equipment is necessary
• examine all glassware to check for chips and cracks
• clean any glassware that appears dirty
• All of these

Long hair in the lab must be

• cut short
• held away from the experiment with one hand
• always neatly groomed and styled
• tied back or kept entirely out of the way with a hair band, hair pins, or other confining device

In a lab, the following should NOT be worn.

• loose clothing
• dangling jewelry
• sandals
• leggings
• all of these