Lab Safety

If a fire starts, immediately...

• Notify your partner

• Use the fire extinguisher/fire blanket

• Throw water on the fire

• Open the windows

Googles are worn in the lab...

• To keep eyes from becoming tired

• To improve vision

• Only if you do not have corrective glasses

• Any time chemicals, heat, or glassware are used

If you do not understand a direction or part of a lab procedure, you should...

• Figure it out as you go

• Try several methods until something works

• Ask the teacher before proceeding

• Skip it and go to the next part

After completing an experiment, all chemical wastes should be...

• Left at your station for the next class

• Throw away according to your teacher's directions

• Dumped in the sink

• Taken home

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

Long hair in the lab must be...

• Cut short

• Held away from the experiment with one hand

• Always neatly styled

• Tied back and kept completely out of the way

Before you leave the science room, you should...

• Clean your work area and equipment

• Return all equipment to the proper storage area

• Wash your hands with soap and water

• All of the above

When using a razor blade or scalpel, always cut material...

• Away from you

• Towards you

• In your hand

• Perpendicular

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

• Visit the school nurse after school

• See a doctor after school

• Tell the teacher at once

• Apply first aid yourself

If a piece of equipment is not working properly, stop, turn it off, and tell...

• The principal

• Your lab partner

• Your best friend in the class

• The teacher

When you finish working with chemicals, living things, and other lab substances, always...

• Treat your hands with skin lotion

• Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water

• Wipe your hands on a towel

• Wipe your hands on your clothes