Lab Safety and Equipment

Pre-Lab Safety

100

This should be done to long hair when working with an open flame.

What is tie hair back?

200

This type of shoe should not be worn on lab days.

What are opened-toed shoes?

300

This item must be worn to protect our clothes and skin.

What are aprons?

400

These are important to wear to protect our eyes during a lab.

What are safety goggles?

500

According to our safety contract, hair products have this chemical property that can be dangerous during a lab with an open flame.

What is flammability?

Classroom Safety Equipment

100

This piece of safety equipment is used to cover someone if their clothing would catch on fire during a lab.

What is a fire blanket?

200

This piece of safety equipment is used only by the teacher in case of a fire during a lab to put out the fire.

What is a fire extinguisher?

300

This piece of safety equipment contains material to treat minor injuries.

What is a first aid kit?

400

This piece of safety equipment is used when debris (small particles) get in your eyes.

What is an eyewash station?

500

This is the first person that should be made aware of any mishaps or accidents during a lab.

What is the teacher?

Good or Bad Behavior in the lab?

100

Student A is using a wafting technique to detect the scent of an unknown liquid substance.

What is a good behavior?

200

Student B is wearing safety goggles and an apron while working with baking soda and vinegar during a lab.

What is good behavior?

300

Student C is wearing goggles and an apron while taking a drink of water and eating a snack. 

What is bad behavior? (eating and drinking in the lab)

400

Student D is wearing goggles and gloves while picking up broken glass from a beaker that was dropped on the floor.

What is bad behavior? (Tell the teacher!)

500

Student E sits down at the lab table and immediately begins to read the lab directions and mixing unknown chemicals as indicated by the directions.

What is bad behavior? (The teacher did not tell them to start)

Measurement

100

A student uses a graduated cylinder to measure out water, what units are typically on this equipment?

What is a mL?

200

This piece of lab equipment is used to measure mass.

What is a balance or scale?

300

This piece of equipment is used to measure length or distance.

What is a meter stick?

400

What is the metric base unit for mass?

What is grams?

500

When converting between the metric units what number do you divide/multiply by?

What is 10?

Lab Room Safety

100

This should be used in case of an extreme spill on oneself to wash off toxic substance 

What is the shower?

200

this is used to clean up broken glass.

What is the broom and dustpan?

300

Broken glass is thrown out in __________.

What is the broken glass box?

400

This is useful in an electrical fire.

What is the emergency shutoff? 

500

This is used when working with chemicals that produce a harmful vapor

What is the fume hood?