What are the 10 COMMANDMENTS OF LABORATORY SAFETY?

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The 12 Commandments of Laboratory Safety

1.Wear your goggles. Eye injuries are extremely serious and unfortunatelycommon. They can be eliminated or mitigated if you keep your safety goggles on atall times. I mean on your eyes, not on the top of your head or around your neck.

No goggles- no lab. Also, leave the contact lenses at home. Imagine chemical and fumes trapped under your contact lens. Ouch!

2.Touch not thyself. You may have just got a bit of chemical on your hands in a concentration that is not noticeable, and sure enough, up go the goggles for an eye wipe with the fingers. Enough said.

3.Don't fool around. Chemistry is serious business. Don't be careless or a clown in the lab. You can hurt yourself or other people. You don't have to be somber...just serious.

4.Drive defensively. Work in the lab as if someone else were going to have an accident and you were ground zero! Keep the goggles on because someone else is going to point a loaded, boiling test tube at you. Someone else is going to spill hot

concentrated acid on you. Get the idea?

5.Learn where it's at. Learn the location and proper use of fire extinguishers, fire blankets, safety showers and eyewashes.

6. Don't be a fashion plate. No bare-feet, open toed shoes or sandals. While not the best idea, canvas shoes are acceptable. Keep the chest to the feet covered just in case the worst happens. Cloths do give you some level of protection, which is

why lab coats and aprons were invented. Tie back that long hair.

7. Don't snack. Are you kidding, eating and drinking in a chem lab? YUCK!

8. Don't smoke. BOOM!!! It's not the second hand smoke that you have to  worry about, but the first hand explosion and flame.

9. No Flames without permission. See rule 8. If you have to heat something  use a hot plate, heating mantel or steam bath. Most of the fires I've put out started when some BOZO decided to heat some flammable solvent in an open beaker.

10. Keep it clean. Work neatly. Turn off burners or water or electrical equipment when you are finished with them. Clean up spills immediately! It's amazing how  much a concentrated acid spill looks like a few drops of plain water until you put you hand in it.

11. Be Prepared. You're unprepared so you have the lab book out. You read the  first line of the experiment and do that operation- "Add this solution to the beaker containing the mixture"

And BOOM! What happened? The next line reads-

"very slowly as the reaction is highly exothermic" But you didn't read that line, or the next, or the next. Don't be a danger to yourself or anyone else. Read and take notes on the experiment before you come to lab.

12. There are no stupid questions. If you are not sure about any operation, or if you have any questions about handling anything, please ask the instructor before you go on. Get rid of the notion that asking questions will make you look foolish.

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