Safety Equipment
This safety equipment protects your eyes from chemical splashes.
What are safety goggles?
Before beginning any investigation, students should do this.
What is read the directions?
If an accident occurs, this person should be notified immediately.
Who is the teacher?
Your goggles are foggy and uncomfortable while working. You should do this.
What is leave them on until instructed to take them off?
This safety device is used to wash chemicals from your eyes.
What is an eyewash station?
This should never be done in a science laboratory because it could make you ill.
What is eating or drinking?
If a chemical spills on your skin, you should do this first.
What is rinse with water?
You see a chemical container with the lid off and no one using it. You should...
Put the lid back on.
This safety device is used when clothing catches fire.
What is a fire blanket?
If glass breaks, this should be used to clean it up.
What is a broom and dustpan?
During an evacuation, students should do this rather than collect belongings.
What is leave immediately and follow directions?
You find an unlabeled container on a lab table.
What is do not touch it and tell the teacher?
This item is used to put out a fire by spraying it with a flame retardant chemical.
This should be tied back during lab activities.
What is long hair & jewelry.
A fire is started in the lab. You should...
What is tell the teacher immediately & get the fire extinguisher?
A classmate tells you to taste a substance because they think it is sugar.
What is refuse to taste it?
This device helps remove toxic or irritating fumes out of the room.
What is the vent fan/fume hood?
A student notices a spill but is not responsible for it. The student should do this.
What is report the spill to the teacher?
A student cuts their hand with a scalpel. The student should...
What is alert the teacher immediately and get the first aid kit.
You finish a lab before everyone else.
What is clean up and wait for instructions?