Why do you think lab safety is important?

2. Why do you think lab safety is important?

3. Safety • Safety in the laboratory is extremely important in order to prevent serious accidents from happening to yourself and to others. • Strict rules must be followed in order to achieve lab safety!

4. Most Accidents can be prevented if you make safety a habit!

5. Emergency Equipment • Know where all the emergency equipment is and know how to use it. • Know the proper fire drill procedure.

6. Science Equipment • Be able to identify and properly use all science equipment in the classroom

7. Read and Follow Directions • Always read the directions twice to make sure you understand it all! • Don’t be afraid to ask questions?

8. Listen to the instructions! • Never begin a lab until you have listened to your teachers instruction. • DO NOT talk among your lab group until the verbal instructions are finished.

9. Stop immediately! • If your teacher asks for your attention during the experiment, immediately stop what you are doing and pay attention. • DO NOT talk while instructions are given

10. Do not eat! • Never mix, touch, taste, heat, or inhale chemicals unless you are told to do so by your teacher.

11. Wear your goggles! • Always wear your lab goggles during every second of the lab. • Wear your goggles properly at all times…on your eyes.

12. Ouch that’s hot! • Handle all hot objects with clamps or tongs. • Use the proper tool for the proper job. • Do not use these items for any other purpose.

13. Unauthorized • Never perform an unauthorized experiment. • Never perform any experiments when the teacher is not in the room. • Never work alone

14. What’s that smell • Never turn the gas on unless you are told to do so by your teacher. • Always turn the gas off at the main valve when not in use.

15. What are you wearing • Loose clothing should not be worn near burner flames. • Long hair should be tied back. • No jewelry allowed!

16. Heating Liquids • Never point a test tube you are heating toward yourself or anyone else.

17. Acid + water • Always mix acid into water and your doing what you auta • When mixing acid and water, always pour the acid into the water slowly, using the greatest caution.

18. Testing odors • When testing for odors, hold the chemical about an arm’s length away and wave your hand over it cautiously sniffing from a distance. • This is called wafting

19. contamination • Never contaminate stock solution by pouring chemicals back into their original bottle. • Never exchange stoppers between bottles or lay stoppers on the table. • Keep the spoon in the original containers.

20. Wash your hands! • Always wash your hands at the end of each lab • Immediately wash your hands after handling animals or chemicals.

21. Acid and base burns • If you get acid or base on your hands immediately wash the affected area with lots of running water. • If you get it in your eyes, quickly rinse your eyes with running water from the inner corner out.

22. Tell the teacher • Report ALL accidents to the teacher as soon as they happen!

23. electricity • When inserting or removing an electrical plug from its socket, grasp the plug not the cord • Inspect all electrical power cords for bare or frayed wires.

24. Disposal • Never pour any chemicals down the sink. Special containers are needed. • Never pour anything down the sink unless asking for permission from the teacher.

25. Be careful! • Be extra careful when handling sharp lab equipment such as scalpels and other dissecting tools. • Report all accidents immediately

26. Clean up • Always clean up your lab area! • It should be spotless! • Clean all lab equipment and the desk area! • Everyone in the lab group should help! • Wash your hands!