Safety Fundamentals
The name of the safety department here at Purdue University.
Who is EHS or REM?
Sharps are this type of hazard
What is a physical hazard?
This is the most effective method of mitigating risks.
What is elimination?
Goggles, gloves, lab coats, long pants, and closed toed shoes are examples of this.
What is PPE?
Oh no! The lab is on fire! The 4 steps to follow are...
What is R (rescue) A (alert) C (call 911) E (evacuate)?
The first step in creating and preparing for a safe experiment.
What is making and plan?
Viruses are this type of hazard.
What is a biological hazard?
Modern labs have switched from using ethidium bromide to a product called SYBERsafe for viewing DNA in a gel. This is an example of ___ type of risk mitigation.
What is substitution?
This type of work area or work bench is required for you to work with chemicals that release fumes.
What is a fume hood?
Oh No! You don't know what is in the chemical bottle you have found in your lab, and the label is worn away. Give an appropriate next step to deal with this issue.
Tell your supervisor or contact EHS
Hazard identification, hazard control, and ______ are the 3 main components of lab safety.
What is emergency response?
Chemical hazards can be separated into these 2 types.
What are physical and health hazards?
A written guide to what you are going to do step by step with certain chemicals or other hazards. They are written to keep you safe and keep our methods consistent person to person in a lab.
What is a standard operating procedure (SOP)?
This type of work area/work bench is required for you to work with a bacteria or other biological hazards.
What is a biosafety cabinet?
Oh No! You witness someone pour a waste chemical down the drain. State what they should have done instead.
What is label the waste and submit it for pick up to EHS?
If you are reviewing all of the equipment and chemical inventory items you will be working with in your upcoming experiment, you are doing this step of preparing for an experiment.
What is identifying potential hazards?
True or False: There is a standard set of pictograms for Chemical hazards know as the Global Harmonized Standard (GHS).
What is true?
Personnel training, building security, chemical hygiene plans and developing SOPs represent this kind of risk mitigation.
What is administrative mitigation?
True or False:
You are in a lab that works with strong bases. You see a person working in goggles, gloves, a lab coat, sneakers, and shorts. All PPE rules are followed in this scenario.
What is false?
Oh no! You got acetone in your eye! (Why weren't you wearing googles? Who knows!) You need to rinse your eyes out in the eye wash. You should do this for ___ minutes.
What is 15 minutes?
The information source you would use to learn all of the available safety information you need to know before working with a chemical in the lab.
What is an SDS sheet?
You are working in lab that conducting research treating blood with caffeine and other stimulant compounds. The hazards associated with this are...
What are chemical and biological hazards?
List the at least 4 of the 5 ways to mitigate risk!
What are Elimination, Substitution, Engineered, Administrative, and PPE?
A ______ is usually a smaller container, for example, chemical transfer container such as a beaker or test tube in a lab. If it is going to be used for longer than temporary storage (not getting used immediately), you would have to give it an appropriate label.
What is a secondary container?
Oh No! There is a chemical spill on your work bench! List 2 appropriate next steps.
Alert those around you, evacuate if it is too dangerous, find the spill kit and use it to clean up