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Safety Rules! Oh and Procedures rule too!!. Clothing Protection:. Wear your. lab apron. to protect your clothing from stains or burns. Eye Safety:. Wear. Safety Goggles. in all labs!. (ex., open flames, chemicals, etc…). If you get chemicals in your eyes,. flush eyes. with. plenty.
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Clothing Protection: • Wear your labapron to protect your clothing from stains or burns. Eye Safety: • Wear SafetyGoggles in all labs! (ex., open flames, chemicals, etc…) • If you get chemicals in your eyes, flusheyes with plenty of water tell your teacher immediately!! &
Clean Up: • Always wash your hands before and after an activity in which you handle chemicals, animals, or plants. Disposal: • Keep your work area clean at all times. properly. • Dispose of all materials Follow your Teacher’s instructions for disposal.
Glassware Safety: • Handle allglasswarecarefully. • Check all glassware for chips or cracks before using it. • Do not try to cleanupbroken glass. Notify your teacher if you break a piece of glassware. • Air-dry all glassware. Do not use papertowels to dry glassware • Neverforceglass tubing into the of a rubber stopper. hole
Heating Safety: • Be careful when handlinghot objects. • Turn off the Bunsen burner or other heat source when notinuse. • Use the properprocedures when lighting a Bunsen Burner. • When you heatchemicals in a test tube, alwayspoint the test tubeaway from people.
Heating Safety continued… • Use a ringstand between a glass flask or beaker and the flame of a Bunsen burner. • Neverheat a closed container! • Neverpick up heated items withouttongs!
Fire Safety: • Confine loose clothing and tie back longhair when working near an open flame. • Be sure you know the location of the fireextinguisher and and fire blankets in the lab. • Neverreachover an open flame!
Explosion: • Use a water-bath to heatsolids. • Do not use an open flame if you are working withflammable liquids. • Do notmixchemicals together unless instructed to do so by your teacher.
Caustic Substances: • Use extreme caution when working with acids and bases. Both acids and bases can cause burns. If you spill an acid or a base on your skin, flush your skin with plenty of water. Notify your teacher immediately • Nevermix acids and bases unless you are instructed to do so by your teacher.
Caustic Substances Continued… • Never pour water into an acid or a base. Always pour an acid or base into water.
Poison: • ____________ mix _________ _______ your _________ permission. Never chemicals without teachers • ____ all ____________ chemicals _____ extreme _________. Use poisonous with caution • ______ your ________ immediately if you _____ __________ or get any ___ your _____ or on your ______. Inform teacher spill chemicals in eyes skin
Sharp Objects: • Be ________ when ________ _________, scalpels, knives, or other _______ instruments. careful using scissors cutting • Always dissect specimens in a dissecting pan! Never while it is in your hand. • Always ____ _____ _____ your _____. cut away from body
Electrical Safety: • ______ all _________ equipment for loose plugs or worn cords _______ _______ it. Check electrical before using • Be sure that electrical ______ are ____ placed ______ _______ can ____ over them. cords not where people trip
Electrical Safety continued… • Do ____ use __________ equipment with ____ hands or _____ water. not electrical wet near • ______ ________ an electrical circuit. Never overload
Plant Safety: • Never eat any part of a plant that you cannot identify as edible. • Some plants, such as poison ivy, are harmful if they are touched or eaten. Use caution when handling or collecting plants. Always use a reliable field guide to plants.
Animal Safety: • Be careful when handling live animals. Some animals can injure you or spread disease.
Humane Treatment: • Always treat all animals in as humane a way as possible. • Make sure all animals receive the appropriate care necessary for their survival.
Bags: Do not store your books, bags, or belongings on the table during a lab. • Unsafe=$ If you break something because you were acting in an unsafe manner, you are responsible for paying for it.
Work Station: Never leave your lab/work station during a lab/activity without your teachers permission. • Reagent bottle Never pour a chemical back into a reagent bottle.
Smelly: Never smell a substance without your teachers permission! • Bloody: Never clean up blood. Tell your teacher immediately if you have cut yourself or see blood that needs to be cleaned up!!!
Matches: Don’t use matches without the teachers permission! • Not Tasty: No food or drinks allowed during a lab!