Lab Safety Rules

If a lab fire erupts, immediately:

•  A. Notify (or tell) your teacher
• B. Run and scream
• C. Throw water at the fire
•  D. Open the windows

Why are approved eye protection devices (such as goggles) are worn in the lab?

• A. To improve your vision
• B. To make you look like a bug
•  C. To give you headaches
•  D. To protect eyes around chemicals, heat, or glassware

You are in lab and your partner accidentally gets their hair stuck in a triple beam balance. What should have your partner done?

•   A. Worn a hat in class
•  B. Skipped class
•  C. Got a hair cut
• D. Tied/pulled their hair back

If you have been injured in the lab, what should you do first?

• A. Apply the first aid yourself
• B. Go to doctor after school in a few hours
• C Tell your science teacher immediately
• D. Not tell anyone

If you see a science experiment set up in the classroom...

• do not touch anything until instructed.
• immediately begin working on the lab.
• go and check all equipment.
• walk around and check each station.

Horseplay or practical jokes in the laboratory are...

• always against the rules.
• okay.
• not dangerous.
• okay if you are working alone.

After completing an experiment in the lab, all chemical wastes should be:

•  poured down the sink.
•   disposed of according to the teacher's directions.
• thrown at other students.
• taken home to play with.
  

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

• away from all people.
• toward another classmate.
• toward your lab partner.
• toward yourself.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

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

• ask the teacher before proceeding.

• skip it and go on to the next part.

• figure it out as you do the lab.

• try several methods until something works.

It is okay to pick up broken glass with your bare hands as long as the glass is placed in the trash can.

• True

• False