Lab Safety Guidelines: Protect Yourself and Follow Rules
Ensure your safety in the lab by wearing appropriate protective clothing, eye protection, gloves, and closed shoes. Avoid applying cosmetics, eating, or drinking in the lab. Take precautions when handling chemicals, such as not smelling them directly and pouring from large containers to smaller ones. Remember to always add acid to water, work with volatile chemicals under a fume hood, and heat test tubes at an angle to prevent accidents.
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Safety and Rules of the Lab
Protect Yourself Wear appropriate protective clothing Your clothing should cover your legs to the knees shorts are not appropriate for the laboratory Lab (coat) can be used to protect good clothing Loose clothing should not be worn because it may dip into chemicals or fall into a flame and catch fire
Eye Protection
Instructions & Notes Wear shoes that cover your feet. Sandals and open- toed shoes do not protect your feet from broken glass that is frequently found in the lab Also, leather shoes protect your feet from chemical spills canvas shoes do not. ladies-shoe-black
Do not apply cosmetics, eat, or drink in the lab. These activities are ways by which you can accidentally ingest harmful chemicals spotlight-homer ta702_dt 244473SDC 20050114_cosmetics
Do not smell any chemicals directly! If absoluteley necessary to smell, use your hand to fan the vapor to your nose.
Pour from large containers to smaller ones. GRADBEAK GRADBEAK
Always ADD ACID to water GRADBEAK acid GRADBEAK water Do not spit into acid! a good phrase to remember this rule.
Work with volatile chemicals under a fume hood. fim wok
Heat test tubes at an angle, directing the opening oppositely to you and other people in the laboratory. chemistry15
Handle hot glassware with gloves or beaker tongs. 373-1
Do not pipet solutions by mouth! 22764011 image_01545 Use a rubber suction bulb or other device to fill a pipet. pipet_plus_operation
Wash your hands with soap and water before leaving. This rule applies even if you have been wearing gloves! handwash
Report all accidents, no matter how minor, to the instructor. If you break something made of glass, be sure to use dustpan and hand broom to sweep it up and dispose of it in the glass waste receptacle.
Before leaving the lab: Keep table tops clean. Return all equipment to its original location before leaving the lab. Clean all spills immediately. Wash your hands after every experiment.
Safety Rules Never put anything in your mouth while in the lab (including chemicals, solutions, equipment, cigarettes, food, drink, or gum). Put all food and drinks in your bag.
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