Safety Lab Practices
Know the location of safety equipment in the lab and how to use it in case one pours the chemical on the floor.
What is the spill kit?
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) should be used every time you enter the lab for work.
What is: safety glasses, laboratory coat, closed-toe shoes, nitrile gloves?
"No shirt, No closed toe shoes, No lab coat, No eye protection, No service."
What is the lab PPE?
The collection of rules to ensure lab users safety.
What is the Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP)?
Many acids and bases are highly toxic by inhalation.
What is "Respiratory Hazard"?
To avoid this disaster, we don't wear PPE in the dining room, and we don't bring phones in the labs.
What is the contamination?
Fancy dress accessories that make you look like a scientist.
What is PPE?
The list of items (chemicals) in the lab.
What is the chemical inventory?
Phone numbers of random people by each lab in the hallways.
What is the list of emergency contacts?
Concentrated acids and bases are corrosive and cause chemical burns if they come into contact with the skin, eyes, or internal organs.
What is "Contact Hazard"?
Needles and razor blades disposal.
What is the "Sharps" Disposal Container.
The free eye makeup remover that requires you to use it for 15 minutes.
What is the eye wash station?
A map on a wall that helps you to get to the most desired destination.
What is the Evacuation Plan?
CHP is part of Occupational Safety and Health Act that was signed under this president on December 29, 1970.
Who is Nixon?
When acids or bases are mixed with other chemicals, combustion can occur.
What is "Fire Hazard"?
This glassware is shattered to pieces. It does not fit the definition of a sharp. It is not contaminated with the chemicals. It requires a separate disposal.
What is the Cardboard "Broken Glass" Disposal Box?
The collection of band aids, antiseptic wipes, gauze, burn gel, pain killers.
What is the First Aid Kit?
Use it when working with volatile or toxic chemicals. Keep the front window down as far as possible. Do not use it for storage. Never put your head inside with vapors present.
What is the Fume Hood?
Under the law of "right to know" these documents contain sophisticated hazardous codes and survival guidance in the lab.
What is the Material Data Sheets (MDS)?
Contamination with bacteria, viruses, parasites and moulds or fungi. They can cause illness such as food poisoning, tetanus, respiratory infections or parasite infections.
What is Biological health Hazard?
Instructions on how to panic when you drop the flask.
What is the plan for cleaning the spill and broken glass?
PPE for pouring concentrated acid or base from a larger 4L container.
What is: rubber gloves?
Two main things that are affected by your choices of practices in the lab.
What is Safety and Health?
A party without parents, yet you can't wear whatever you want, and you get through instructions on how to behave in a party room. (It's not a paintball)
What is the Safety Training?
Exposure to high levels can cause acute health effects such as skin burns. It can also result in long-term health effects such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. Geiger Counter is required to monitor the levels.
What is Radiation Hazard?