Lab safety rules

PPE stands for:

• Protective Personal Equipment

• Protective Peer Equipment

• Personal Protective Equipment

• Personal Peer Equipment

Some lab rules include:

• No play fighting in the lab

• Wear safety goggles

• Hair must be tied back

• All of the above

Select the rule below that is not true

• Report all injuries, breakages and spillages to the teacher

• You are allowed to eat in the lab if you do it away from the benches

• Do not inhale fumes

• Wear a lab coat

This symbol stands for:

• Hazard ahead

• Help needed ahead

• Hazardous chemical ahead

• Hazardous chemical

If an acid or alkali splashes into your eye, you should:

• Get a wet cloth and pat your eye with it until it stops hurting. If the pain continues, leave the cloth on your eye until it feels better

• Tell your teacher and wash your eye immediately with lots of water for 5 minutes making sure you blink your eyelid under the water

• Wash your eye with cold water then continue with the practical

• Tell your teacher and wash your eye immediately with lots of water for 20 minutes making sure you blink your eyelid under the water

This symbol means:

• Fire

• Flammable

• Hot surface

• Bunsen burner flame

You should wear a lab coat to:

• Protect yourself from a fire

• Prevent corrosive liquids being spilt on you

• Be fashionable

• Act like a scientist

This symbol means:

• Wash hands

• Test tubes containing chemicals

• Corrosive

• Spillage ahead

What steps should you follow if a persons hair or clothing catches fire?

• Stop, drop and roll. While the person is rolling wrap a fire blanket around them to smother the flames

• Stop, drop and roll. The fire will blow out while the person is rolling

• Stop, drop and roll. Get a fire extinguisher and use it on the person to help the fire blow out quicker

• Do not waste any time. Get a fire extinguisher immediately and use it on the person

This symbol stands for:

• Chemicals

• Corrosive

• Toxic

• Poisons