Lab safety quiz

What is used to protect your eyes from chemicals, broken glass, and fire?

• Fire blanket
• Eye wash
• Goggles
• Flask

What should you do if you break glass in the lab?

• Tell the teacher.
• Sweep up the glass.
• Pick up the glass with your hands.
• Ignore it; the teacher will clean it up when she sees it later.

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

• Toward yourself.

• Toward your lab partner.

• Toward another classmate.

• Away from all people.

The proper technique for smelling chemicals is ______________

• Keeping your nose close to the glassware
• WAFT it toward your nose
• to sniff only a small amount
• Trick question; you never are allowed to smell chemicals in class

Match the following

• always wear ____ to protect your eyes

• 
• or secure long sleeves or loose clothing

• 
• never wear __shoes or sandals

• 
• __long hair from chemicals,flames &equip

• 

Long hair in a lab setting should be ​ (a)  

• tied back
• cut off
• swung wildly around

Do not eat, drink, or chew gum in the lab.

• true
• false

Work areas, including lab tables, should be kept clean and tidy.

• true
• false

Do not touch, taste, or smell any chemicals.

• true
• false

Which sentence does describe this image?

• We do not drink or eat in the lab.

• We wear goggles. We protect our eyes.

• We wear the lab coat. We protect our clothes.

• We wash our hands.