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Lab Safety PPT
The document outlines several important safety rules for chemistry laboratories, including wearing appropriate eye protection and protective clothing, avoiding open-toed shoes, eating or drinking in the lab, and adding acids to water slowly. Students are instructed to work carefully with chemicals and equipment, know the location of safety equipment, never work alone or remove chemicals from the lab, and demonstrate safe behavior by cleaning up and reporting any accidents.
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Lab Safety PPT
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- 2. Protect Your Eyes • Appropriate eye protection must be worn at all times! • Inform your teacher if you wear contact lenses.
- 3. Wear appropriate protective clothing • Lab aprons can be used to protect good clothing and you • Loose clothing should not be worn because it may dip into chemicals or fall into a flame and catch fire • Fleece is NOT appropriate
- 4. Wear shoes thatcover your feet. • Sandals and open-toed shoes do not protect your feet from broken glass that is frequently found in the lab
- 5. Do not applycosmetics, eat, or drink in the lab. • These activities are ways by which you can accidentally ingest harmful chemicals
- 7. Do not tasteany chemical!
- 8. Pour from largecontainers to smaller ones.
- 9. Always ADD ACIDto water acid water
- 10. Work with volatile chemicals under a fume hood.
- 11. Check glassware forstars or cracks.
- 12. Heat test tubesat an angle.
- 13. Handle hot glasswarewith gloves or beaker tongs.
- 14. Bunsen Burner Setup burner, turn on gas THEN Use the striker!
- 15. Do not smellany chemicals directly! • Smell chemicals only if your teacher specifically tells you to do so, then use your hand to fan the vapor to your nose.
- 16. Do not pipetsolutions by mouth! • Use a rubber suction bulb or other device to fill a pipet.
- 17. Wash your handswith soap and water before leaving. • This rule applies even if you have been wearing gloves!
- 18. Know the hazardsof the materials being used. • Read and reread labels carefully to make sure that you are using the right chemical. • Pay attention to the warnings about the chemicals used in the lab.
- 19. Tie Back LooseHair • Dangling hair can fall into the Bunsen burner and catch fire or can fall into a chemical solution • P.S. Burning hair REALLY STINKS!
- 20. Know the safetyequipment • Eye wash fountain • Safety shower • Fire extinguisher • Emergency exits
- 21. Carry out onlythe experiments assigned by your teacher I wonder what he’s planning to do with that thing.
- 22. Never remove chemicalsfrom the laboratory This guy put chemicals in his locker!
- 23. Never work alonein the lab • In case of a problem, you may need another person to prevent injury or even save your life!
- 24. Remember that thelab is a place for serious work! Careless behavior may endanger yourself and others and will not be tolerated!
- 25. Demonstrate safe behavior • Obey all safety instructions given by your teacher or found in you experimental procedure. • Clean up spills immediately; IF you know how. If you are uncertain how to clean up a spill or if a large spill occurs, notify your teacher immediately.
- 26. Demonstrate safe behavior • Before leaving the lab:
- 27. Demonstrate safe behavior • Before leaving the lab: – Return equipment and chemicals to their proper places
- 28. Demonstrate safe behavior • Before leaving the lab: – Return equipment and chemicals to their proper places – Be sure to replace the lids to all containers
- 29. Demonstrate safe behavior • Before leaving the lab: – Return equipment and chemicals to their proper places – Be sure to replace the lids to all containers – Clean up your work area
- 30. Know how todispose of waste • Dispose of all waste materials according to your instructional procedure or your teacher’s instructions ? ? ? ?
- 31. Report any accidentsor unsafe conditions immediately!
Editor's Notes
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