Safety Equipment
These protect your eyes from chemicals, glass, and other materials.
What are safety goggles?
This type of footwear should be worn during a laboratory activity.
What are closed-toe shoes?
You should always follow these before beginning an experiment.
What are the teacher’s directions?
You accidentally spill water on the floor.
What is tell the teacher and clean it up as directed?
Maya enters the laboratory wearing sandals. This is the safety rule she is breaking.
What is wearing closed-toe shoes?
This safety item is used to put out a small fire.
What is a fire extinguisher?
This should be tied back before beginning an experiment.
What is long hair?
This behavior, which includes pushing, running, or joking around, is never allowed in the laboratory.
What is horseplay?
A piece of glass breaks during an experiment.
What is tell the teacher and do not touch it?
Liam finishes the experiment early and begins mixing leftover chemicals. This is what he should have done first.
What is ask the teacher for permission?
This station is used to rinse chemicals out of a person’s eyes.
What is the eyewash station?
These items should be removed or secured because they could become caught in equipment.
What are loose jewelry and accessories?
You should never eat or do this in the science laboratory.
What is drink?
A chemical splashes onto your skin.
What is rinse the area with water and tell the teacher immediately?
Ava picks up broken glass with her bare hands. This is the safer action she should take.
What is tell the teacher and use the proper glass-cleanup tools?
This safety device is used when a person’s clothing catches on fire.
What is the safety shower?
These should be rolled up or secured before working with chemicals or flames.
What are loose sleeves?
You should never begin an experiment without receiving this from the teacher.
What is permission?
You smell an unknown chemical during an experiment.
What is use the wafting technique instead of smelling it directly?
John points a heated test tube toward another student. This is the direction a heated test tube should always face.
What is away from yourself and others?
This special blanket can be wrapped around someone to help put out flames.
What is a fire blanket?
This protective clothing helps prevent chemicals from reaching your clothes or skin.
What is a lab apron?
You should never return unused chemicals to their original containers because you could cause this.
What is contamination?
Your lab partner is injured but says that it is not a big deal.
What is report the injury to the teacher immediately?
Sophia does not understand one of the experiment directions but begins the procedure anyway. This is what she should do instead.
What is stop and ask the teacher for help?