1. Safety and Rules of the Lab

2. Lab Safety Rules

3. This is why lab safety is IMPORTANT!

4. Safety Symbols Know safety symbols
They appear in your laboratory activities
They will alert you to possible dangers
They will remind you to work carefully

5. Use Your Head Exercise Caution and Good Judgment
Follow all instructions given by the teacher
Notify the teacher immediately regarding any accident or unsafe areas

6. Use Your Head Read lab instructions ahead of time
Always follow lab procedures exactly
Never do an unauthorized experiment

7. Protect Yourself Eye Safety
Wear safety goggles when working with chemicals, flames, or heating devices
or if possibility of flying debris
If you wear contact lenses let your teacher know

8. Protect Yourself Eye Safety
In case of emergency in which a chemical goes into one’s eye, use the eyewash station
Flush in water for 15 mins. and notify the teacher

9. Know where the eyewash station is and how to use it
Know where the eyewash station is and how to use it. Where is the station?
If you get something in your eye
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10. Know where the eyewash station is and how to use it
Know where the eyewash station is and how to use it. Where is the station?
If you get something in your eye
Get it out now!
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11. Know where the eyewash station is and how to use it
Know where the eyewash station is and how to use it. Where is the station?
If you get something in your eye
Get it out now!
Hold eyelid open.
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12. Know where the eyewash station is and how to use it
Know where the eyewash station is and how to use it. Where is the station?
If you get something in your eye
Get it out now!
Hold eyelid open.
Gently run water over your eyes
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13. Know where the eyewash station is and how to use it
Know where the eyewash station is and how to use it. Where is the station?
If you get something in your eye
Get it out now!
Hold eyelid open.
Gently run water over your eyes
Yell for the teacher or have a student get the teacher IMMEDIATELY!!!!
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14. Know where the eyewash station is and how to use it
Know where the eyewash station is and how to use it. Where is the station?
If you get something in your eye
Get it out now!
Hold eyelid open.
Gently run water over your eyes
Yell for the teacher or have a student get the teacher IMMEDIATELY!!!!
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15. Protect Yourself Proper Attire
Keep all long hair tied back
Do not wear loose clothing that could catch on fire
Foot wear that completely covers the foot is required

16. If you have long hair then please arrange it so that it will not hang down and catch on fire.
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17. Use proper safety protection.
Goggles covering eyes.
Gloves (Non-latex) for allergy reasons.
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18. Which of the students is being unsafe in the lab and will requiring talking to?

19. Answer! The student’s on the right are not wearing their goggles properly and they are not wearing gloves.

20. Do not do this!
You have now seen it and don’t need to do it again in the lab ever.
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21. Protect Yourself Hand Safety
If a chemical spills on your skin, notify the teacher and rinse with water for 15 minutes
Wash hands after every lab
Handle glassware, sharp tools and heated containers carefully

22. Sharp Objects Always cut away from fingers and body
Sharp Objects
Always cut away from fingers and body
Always carry sharp objects with points and tips facing down and away
Never try to catch falling sharp instruments
Grasp sharp instruments only by the handles

23. Sharp Objects Notify teacher if you get cut
Sharp Objects
Notify teacher if you get cut
Broken glass and sharp objects do not go in trash cans
Teacher will clean up broken glass

24. Avoid cutting yourself if we are using sharp objects.
Never cut toward yourself or others.
A pencil and other pointed objects can be very dangerous.
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25. Avoid cutting yourself if we are using sharp objects.
Never cut toward yourself or others.
A pencil and other pointed objects can be very dangerous.
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26. Avoid cutting yourself if we are using sharp objects.
Never cut toward yourself or others.
A pencil and other pointed objects can be very dangerous.
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27. Avoid cutting yourself if we are using sharp objects.
Never cut toward yourself or others.
A pencil and other pointed objects can be very dangerous.
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28. Avoid blood and other bodily fluid. fluid.
If you are bleeding then please contact teacher immediately to get wound cleaned and covered.

29. Avoid blood and other bodily fluid.
If you are bleeding then please contact teacher immediately to get wound cleaned and covered.

30. Avoid blood and other bodily fluid.
If you are bleeding then please contact teacher immediately to get wound cleaned and covered.

31. Avoid blood and other bodily fluid.
If you are bleeding then please contact teacher immediately to get wound cleaned and covered.

32. Avoid blood and other bodily fluid.
If you are bleeding then please contact teacher immediately to get wound cleaned and covered.

33. Avoid blood and other bodily fluid.
If you are bleeding then please contact teacher immediately to get wound cleaned and covered.

34. Avoid blood and other bodily fluid.
If you are bleeding then please contact teacher immediately to get wound cleaned and covered.

36. Please check glassware for cracks or chips prior to use.
If glassware is broken please contact teacher.
Please be safe with glassware to avoid dropping and breaking. Clean immediately.
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37. Please check glassware for cracks or chips prior to use.
If glassware is broken please contact teacher.
Please be safe with glassware to avoid dropping and breaking. Clean immediately.
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38. Please check glassware for cracks or chips prior to use.
If glassware is broken please contact teacher.
Please be safe with glassware to avoid dropping and breaking. Clean immediately.
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39. Please check glassware for cracks or chips prior to use.
If glassware is broken please contact teacher.
Please be safe with glassware to avoid dropping and breaking. Clean immediately.
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40. Electrical Safety
Only electrical plugs are to be placed into an electrical outlet
Unplug electrical equipment after use
Keep all electrical cords, wires, and appliances away from water

41. Keep electrical equipment away from water and vice versa.
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43. “Hey Joey, Are you sure this is safe.”

44. “For sure, what could possibly happen?”

47. Physical Safety Handle all equipment carefully
Do not place a cord where someone can trip over it
Push all stools in out of the way
Keep books picked up out of walking isles

48. Clean spills from the outside in.
Apply paper towels over the spill, then, carefully starting from the outside, wipe in.
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49. “Let’s practice our skills with a simulated spill.”
Clean spills from the outside in.
Apply paper towels over the spill, then, carefully starting from the outside, wipe in.
“Let’s practice our skills with a simulated spill.”
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50. Heating Safety
Tie back hair and loose clothes when working with open flames
Never look into a container as you are heating it
Never point the end of a test tube being heated at yourself or others
Never heat in a closed container

51. Heating Safety Never leave a heat source unattended
Heated metal and glass looks cool, use tongs or gloves before handling
Do not place hot glassware directly on lab desk or in cold water

52. Keep flammable solutions away from flame.
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53. Keep flammable solutions away from flame.
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54. Keep flammable solutions away from flame.
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55. Keep flammable solutions away from flame.
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56. Keep flammable solutions away from flame.
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57. Keep flammable solutions away from flame.
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58. Keep flammable solutions away from flame.
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59. Keep flammable solutions away from flame.
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60. Keep flammable solutions away from flame.
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61. Chemical Safety
Read all labels twice before removing a chemical from the container
Only use the type and amount of chemical instructed to use
Never touch, taste, or smell a chemical unless instructed by the teacher
Never mix chemicals unless instructed to do so

62. Be precise in your measuring of reagents and chemicals.
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63. Do not breathe vapors or put anything close to your nose to smell unless instructed.
When smelling, do not hold the object below your nose, make a pass from one side to the other.
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64. Do not breathe vapors or put anything close to your nose to smell unless instructed.
When smelling, do not hold the object below your nose. Wave your hand over the top of the chemical and breathe normally from a distance. This is called WAFTING TECHNIQUE!
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65. Chemical Safety Transfer chemicals carefully!
Keep lids on chemical containers when not in use
When diluting an acid, pour the acid into water
Consider all chemicals dangerous

66. Plant Safety Do not eat any plants in lab
Wash your hands after handling plants
Tell your teacher of any plant allergies
Like any organism, plants should be considered possibly harmful

67. You Should Never… Enter store room unless given permission
Take any chemicals from lab or store room
Touch any equipment, chemicals, or other materials until instructed to do so

68. You Should Never… Eat or drink in the lab
Use lab glass-ware to eat or drink out of

69. Please do not eat food or drink in the classroom.
No gum
Cough drops
Or putting strange things in your mouth.
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70. Please do not eat food or drink in the classroom.
No gum.
Cough drops
Or putting strange things in your mouth.
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71. Please do not eat food or drink in the classroom.
No gum.
Cough drops unless prescribed.
Or putting strange things in your mouth.
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72. Please do not eat food or drink in the classroom.
No gum.
Cough drops unless prescribed.
Or putting strange things in your mouth.
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73. Please do not eat food or drink in the classroom.
No gum.
Cough drops unless prescribed.
Or putting strange things in your mouth.
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74. Please do not eat food or drink in the classroom.
No gum.
Cough drops unless prescribed.
Or putting strange things in your mouth.
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75. You Should Never… Engage in…. practical jokes horse play rough house

76. Use common sense at all times.
No horseplay.
No pushing.
No running.
No squirting with droppers.

77. Use common sense at all times.
No horseplay.
No pushing.
No running.
No squirting with droppers.

78. Use common sense at all times.
No horseplay.
No pushing.
No running.
No squirting with droppers.

79. Use common sense at all times.
No horseplay.
No pushing.
No running.
No squirting with droppers.

80. Use common sense at all times.
No horseplay.
No pushing.
No running.
No squirting with droppers.

81. Use common sense at all times.
No horseplay.
No pushing.
No running.
No squirting with droppers.

82. Use common sense at all times.
No horseplay.
No pushing.
No running.
No squirting with droppers.

83. Use common sense at all times.

84. Use common sense at all times.

85. In case of an emergency…
Know the locations of:
fire extinguisher
fire blanket
body shower
eyewash station
first aid kit
If you spill a harmful chemical on yourself or in your eyes, start rinsing immediately and send your partner to get teacher’s help

86. Know where the fire extinguisher is and how to use it.
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87. Know where the fire extinguisher is and how to use it.
We have a Carbon Dioxide all purpose fire extinguisher.
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88. Know where the fire extinguisher is and how to use it.
We have a Carbon Dioxide all purpose fire extinguisher.
Find key.
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89. Know where the fire extinguisher is and how to use it.
We have a Carbon Dioxide all purpose fire extinguisher.
Find key.
Pull it out. (Stand back)
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90. Know where the fire extinguisher is and how to use it.
We have a Carbon Dioxide all purpose fire extinguisher.
Find key.
Pull it out. (Stand back)
Pull handle / trigger.
Point at the fire until extinguished.
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91. Know where the fire extinguisher is and how to use it.
We have a Carbon Dioxide all purpose fire extinguisher.
Find key.
Pull it out. (Stand back)
Pull handle / trigger.
Point at the fire until extinguished.
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93. Clean Up Your Lab Area!! Put away all of your lab materials!
Clean up the floor of all spills and trash around your work area.
Do NOT LEAVE A MESS for the next class!!

94. Clean glassware before and after use to avoid harmful residue.
Do NOT DRINK out of
lab glassware!!
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95. Remember to… Stay at your work station Maintain a clean work area
Read and follow all directions
Report any spills, accidents, or injury to the teacher immediately
Clean and put away all equipment at the end of the lab period
Dispose of waste products according to instruction

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