Safety Rules

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Safety Rules
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Dress Code

• Many materials in the lab can cause eye injury.
  Goggles should always be worn when chemicals are
  being heated or mixed. This will protect your
  eyes from chemicals that spatter or explode. An
  eye wash station is available. If you happen to
  get some chemical in your eye, flush thoroughly
  with water for 15 minutes and report to the nurse.

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Dress Code

• Wear lab aprons whenever you work with chemicals,
  burners, candles or when your teacher tells you
  to.

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Dress Code

• Tie back long hair and secure loose clothing.
  Remove jewelry that can hang down and interfere
  with working in the lab. Young ladies and
  gentlemen never comb their hair in lab. And
  ladies never put makeup on in the lab.

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General Safety Rules

• Enter the room quietly! Go directly to your
  assigned seat. Prepare for the investigation by
  getting out the materials you need putting
  everything else in your backpack or folder and
  place it on the floor under your chair or under
  the table.

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General Safety Rules

• Read listen to all directions. BETTER SAFE
  THAN SORRY. If you have questions or are not
  sure how to handle a particular chemical,
  procedure, or part of an activity, ASK FOR HELP!

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General Safety Rules

• HORESEPLAY can never be tolerated in the lab.
  Horseplay can lead to spills, broken containers,
  damaged equipment. Never throw anything to
  another person be careful where you put your
  hands and arms and no wrestling, punching, or
  shoving in the lab.

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General Safety Rules

• NEVER HANDLE ANY EQUIPMENT until you are given
  specific permission to do so.

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General Safety Rules

• Take extreme care not to spill anything in the
  lab. If spills do occur, ask your teacher
  immediately about proper clean-up procedures.
  Never simply pour substances into the trash
  container.

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General Safety Rules

• Eating drinking in the lab is out. When you
  eat or drink in the lab you run the risk of
  ingesting the chemicals. This is NEVER done
  unless the lab calls for it.

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General Safety Rules

• Clean up your lab area completely before you
  leave. This is no time to be a pig! Your lab
  station should be spotless before you begin your
  investigation and you must leave it that way for
  the next group. Report all messes to your
  teacher.

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First Aid

• REPORT ALL ACCIDENTS TO THE TEACHER IMMEDIATELY.
  It doers not matter how small.

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First Aid

• Know the location of safety equipment in the
  classroom. This includes the fire blanket, fire
  extinguisher, first aid kit, eye wash station,
  shower. Your teacher will administer any first
  aid necessary.

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First Aid

• Learn what to do in case of specific accidents.
  Know where to go and what to do if you get
  something in your eyes, if you spatter yourself
  with chemicals, if a fire is started, or any
  other emergency.

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Heating Fire Safety

• Always use goggles, tie back hair, cover
  clothing when working with candles and burners.

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Heating Fire Safety

• Never heat substances you have not been
  instructed to heat.

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Heating Fire Safety

• Maintain a clean work area keep all materials
  away from open flames. This means lab notebooks,
  instruction sheets, and pencils.

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Heating Fire Safety

• Make sure you know how to light and how to
  extinguish a burner. You will be instructed how
  to do so. NEVER leave an open flame unattended.

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Heating Fire Safety

• Point test tubes or other containers being heated
  AWAY from you, your lab partner, and anyone else.
  Always watch chemicals being heated, they can
  splash, or boil out of their containers.

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Heating Fire Safety

• HOT!! Chemicals that have been heated require
  proper handling to protect you from burns. Never
  grab them with your hand. Use tongs, clamps or
  heat gloves.

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Chemical Safety

• NEVER MIX CHEMICALS FOR THE FUN OF IT. You
  might produce something that is dangerous or
  explosive.

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Chemical Safety

• NEVER touch, taste, or smell a chemical unless
  directed to do so by your teacher, Should you
  need to smell a chemical, do so by holding the
  chemical 6 inches away from you and gently waving
  your hand over the substance towards your nose.
  This will waft some of the fumes toward your
  nose without exposing you to a large dose of
  noxious material.

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Chemical Safety

• Use only those chemicals your teacher instructs
  you to. Keep lids closed on all containers.
  Notify your teacher if a chemical is spilled.

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Chemical Safety

• Dispose of all chemicals the way you are
  instructed to do.

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Chemical Safety

• Rinse off any chemicals that have spilled or
  splashed onto your skin immediately.

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Sharp Instruments

• Handle scalpels, scissors, blades with extreme
  care. Point blades down toward the floor. Pass
  the equipment to another by handing them the
  handle. Always cut away from you.

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Sharp Instruments

• Notify the teacher if you are cut.

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Animals

• Animals are to be treated respectfully. NEVER
  poke or prod the animals with your fingers or
  other devices.

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Animals

• Never feed the animals unless you have been given
  permission to do so.

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Animals

• Handle the animals only if you have been given
  specific permission to do so. Animals are never
  handled if there is a guest teacher.

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Clean-Up Rules

• Extinguish all flames burners.

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Clean-Up Rules

• When you are finished or are instructed to do so,
  clean up your work area return all clean
  equipment to its proper place.

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Clean-Up Rules

• Wash your hands after every investigation.

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Clean-Up Rules

• Return to your table, be seated, wait quietly
  for the teacher to dismiss you. The teacher, not
  the bell, dismisses you. REMEMBER, IF IN DOUBT,
  ASK YOUR TEACHER!!