Lab Safety
List at least 3 Important General Guidelines
What laboratory equipment is required?
Fire Prevention methods include:
What should be used should a chemical get in
the eye or skin?
Where should broken glassware be placed?
Based upon what you learned in the virtual
simulation, identify the location of the fire
blanket and first aid kit.
Explain how each piece of laboratory
equipment is used.
Mortar and Pestle
Watch glass
Glassware
Graduated cylinder
Erlenmeyer flask
Place all of your answers on this side
1. Read lab through all the way before doing
anything else
2. In case of emergency, always tell the
teacher before doing anything else
3. When in doubt ask the teacher
- Lab coat
- Safety googles
- Beaker
- Test tubes
- Gloves
- Fire extinguisher
- Never walk away from an open flame or
plugged in hot plate
- Keep hair tied back when working in lab
- Do not wear loose clothing or jewelry in lab
- A fire extinguisher can be used to put out
fires
- PASS = Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep
- A fire blanket is best to used when a person
is on fire
- Use eye wash or safety shower
In a special disposal not the trash can
Fire blanket and first aid kit should be next to
the eyewashes and safety showers
For grinding solids into a powder
Can be used as a lid on a breaker to prevent
splattering
Makes precise volume measurements of
liquids
Heating liquids, but can also measure and
hold them
 Holding, mixing, and measuring liquids (and
Beaker some solids)
Used for performing small chemical reactions
Test tubes
Holds up multiple test tubes at one time
Test tube rack
To hold test tube when heating
Test tube holder

Heating Electrically powered plate for heating

Hot plate chemicals
Gas powered flame for heating chemicals
Bunsen Burner

Ring Stand
Used to support heated objects above the
Iron Ring flame

Wire gauze

Measuring

Measures mass (usually in grams)

Digital scale
Measure length (mm, cm, or m)
Meter stick
Measure temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit
Thermometer or Celsius

Transferring

Moving and holding a hot beaker

Beaker tongs
Transferring liquids from larger containers to
Funnel larger

Spatula Transferring solid chemicals from larger

containers to smaller
Pipette Transferring liquids in small precise amounts
Transferring liquids drop by drop
Dropper
Summarize a list of safe and unsafe behaviors
in a lab.
In order to be safe in a lab, students must
remember wear safety lab equipment and
follow all lab rules. For instance, always wear
your googles, call on the teacher if you or
someone spills any chemicals, and make sure
to read all instructions carefully. Unsafe lab
behaviors would include playing around
chemicals, not wearing your safety lab
equipment, and not following correct lab
instructions.