Laboratory Safety

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

• Fire blanket

• Eye wash

• Goggles

• Flask

When you finish working with chemicals, biological specimens, and other lab substances, always

• treat your hands with skin lotion.

• wipe your hands on a towel.

• wipe your hands on your clothes.

• wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water

Why are safety symbols important?

• They tell me how to do an experiment

• Because the icon looks cool

• Symbols tell me the content of the substances

• They tell me specific dangers

Which of the following should NOT be worn during a lab investigation?

• Flip flops

• Dangling jewelry

• Loose, long hair

• All of the above

Long hair in the laboratory must be

• cut short.

• tied back or kept entirely out of the way with a hair band, hairpins, or other confining device.

• always neatly groomed.

• held away from the experiment with one hand.

• Poison/Toxic
• Bio Hazard
• Radioactive
• Corrosive

What safety symbol is this?

• Explosion

• Flammable

• No Open Flame

• Oxidizing Agent

What symbol is this?

• Strong Magnetic Field

• Lizard

• Hazard

• Hot Surface

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Disrupting other students in the laboratory with horseplay in the lab is:

• helpful.

• allowed

• dangerous.

• the quickest way to do a job.

The wearing of flip flops and other open toed shoes are acceptable during a laboratory investigation during the hot summer months.

• True

• False