SAFETY RULES

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SAFETY RULES
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Safety Rules

• READ, READ, READ
• Locate
• firealarms
• eyewash
• Work with a buddy
• Declutter

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Safety Rules

• Tie back long hair tuck in clothes wear
  closed shoes
• Eye Safety
• wear safety goggles
• use the eyewash lots of water (notify teacher)
• Spills (notify teacher)
• On clothes
• On Counter
• On Floor
• Clothing Protection
• Aprons
• Lab jackets

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Safety Rules

• Cutting
• Never cut something while holding it in your
  hands. Put it on a secure cutting surface
• Carry knives or scissors with pointed side down
• Heat Fire
• always wear goggles
• Oven mitts
• flames toward middle of table away from all
  papers and chemicals
• Electricity
• Cords should not be tripping hazards
• Cords should not hang over the edge of a table
• Inspect the cord for fraying or damage
• When plugging in or out
• Hands dry
• Turned off

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Safety Rules

• Chemicals
• Goggles
• Read labels
• gloves, aprons when using certain chemicals
  (acids or bases)
• Spills on skin rinse immediately for 5 minutes
• Eyes eye wash
• Never touch, taste, or smell unless instructed to
  do so.
• Never mix any chemicals unless told to do so.
  This includes water. (water plus sodium is
  explosive)

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Safety Rules

• Animals
• Live
• Handle carefully respectfully
• Wash hands after
• Dead
• Handle carefully respectfully
• Wash hands after even if wearing latex gloves
• Plants
• wash hands after handling
• Do not eat any part of plant unless instructed to
  do so

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Safety Rules

• Glassware
• examine before using no chips or cracks
• if heating the glass it should be heat
  resistant
• Cleanup
• always completely clean your work area before
  leaving
• put away all equipment supplies
• Dispose of chemicals as directed
• recheck to be sure all gas, burners, and water
  sources are turned off
• Is all electrical equipment turned off
  unplugged
• wash all contaminated surfaces with soap and
  water
• wash hands
• never remove anything from the laboratory without
  permission from the teacher