Flinn Lab Safety Quiz

If a laboratory fire erupts, immediately

• A. notify your teacher.

• B. run for the fire extinguisher.

• C. throw water on the fire.

• D. open the windows.

Appropriate eye protection devices (such as goggles) are worn in the laboratory

• A. to avoid eye strain.

• B. to improve your vision.

• C. only if you don't have corrective glasses.

• D. any time chemicals, heat, or glassware is used.

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

• A. figure it out as you do the lab.

• B. try several methods until something works.

• C. ask the teacher before proceeding.

• D. skip it and do the next step.

After completing an experiment, all lab equipment should be

• A. left at your lab partners to clean up.

• B. disposed of according to your teacher's directions.

• C. dumped in the sink.

• D. taken home.

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

• A. toward yourself.

• B. toward your lab partner.

• C. toward the teacher.

• D. away from all people.

You are heating a piece of glass and now want to pick it up. You should

• A. use a rag or paper towels.

• B. pick up the end that looks cooler.

• C. use tongs.

• D. pour cold water on it.

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

• A. visit the school nurse after class.

• B. see a doctor after school.

• C. tell your teacher at once.

• D. apply first aid at once.

When gathering glassware and equipment for an experiment, you should

• A. get dirty glassware and complete the lab.

• B. examine all glassware to check for chips and cracks before completing lab.

• C. use chipped or cracked glassware to complete the lab.

• D. drop it and get another piece of glassware to complete lab.

Personal eyeglasses can not replace _______ in the lab.

• A. a face shield.

• B. safety goggles.

• C. an apron.

• D. as tying long hair back.

Long hair in the lab must be

• A. cut short.

• B. held away from the experiment with one hand.

• C. always neatly groomed.

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