Dress for Success
This piece of safety gear must protect your eyes at all times during a lab, even if you already wear regular eyeglasses
What are safety goggles?
If a chemical accidentally splashes into your eyes, you must rinse them here for at least 15 to 20 minutes.
What is the eye wash station?
The single most important step you must do before touching any equipment or starting an experiment.
What is thoroughly reading the lab procedure and listening to the teacher's instructions?
This is what the acronym WHMIS stands for in Canada.
This is what the acronym WHMIS stands for in Canada?
This type of footwear is strictly prohibited because it leaves your toes exposed to chemical spills or dropped glass.
What are open-toed shoes (or sandals)?
If a piece of glass breaks, you should immediately notify your teacher and never do this yourself.
What is pick up the broken glass with your bare hands?
This category of personal items—including cell phones and iPods—is completely prohibited on the lab bench.
What are personal electronics?
A pictogram showing a skull and crossbones indicates this type of severe danger.
What is acute toxicity (materials that can cause immediate death or severe poisoning)?
This must be done to long hair, dangling jewelry, or baggy clothing before lighting a Bunsen burner or working with chemicals.
What is tying them back or securing them?
The physical action you must take if your clothes catch on fire, rather than running around.
What is Stop, Drop, and Roll?
These three oral activities (involving your mouth) are strictly banned in the science lab to prevent accidental poisoning.
What are eating, drinking, and chewing gum?
This shape is used as the standard red border for all modern WHMIS hazard symbols.
What is a diamond (or square set on a point)?
True or False: It is completely safe to wear your regular contact lenses during any chemistry lab as long as you have goggles on.
What is False? (CBE safety contracts note that contact lenses can trap dangerous chemical vapors against the eye).
This is the safe method for smelling a chemical by using your hand to gently wave the vapors toward your nose.
What is wafting?
If you have leftover chemicals at the end of a lab, you should never do this with them.
What is pour them back into the original supply bottles? (This contaminates the stock solution)
A pictogram featuring a capital letter "O" with flames on top of it represents this type of material, which helps fires burn easily.
What is an oxidizing material?
The three items of clothing you should remove or put in your locker before a lab exam at school, according to CBE rules.
What are jackets/coats, caps/hats, and loose bags?
When heating a liquid inside a test tube, you must never point the mouth of the tube at these two things.
What is yourself or another person?
ccording to your signed CBE Safety Contract, this penalty will happen if you intentionally engage in horseplay or unsafe practices.
What is having your laboratory privileges suspended?
A pictogram showing a tube pouring liquid onto a flat surface and a hand, leaving burn marks, warns of this hazard.
What is a corrosive material?