Post on 23-Feb-2016
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You are a chemistry student and need to use your knowledge of Laboratory Safety Rules to be able to prepare for, and safely
navigate your way through a chemistry laboratory lesson. Make a bad decision and you could be facing some unwanted consequences. Make the right ones and
you could come out a hero.
Click play when you’re ready to
begin
You sleep through your alarm and are running late for school. What are you going to do?
Quickly pack your school bag with some lunch and race out of the
door.
Ensure you have your lab coat and safety glasses and
that you’re wearing your leather school
shoes.
Quickly pack your lab coat but you can't find your
safety glasses so pack your sunglasses
instead.
You arrive at your chemistry class.
Put on your lab coat and safety
glasses, and have only your pencil case, calculator, drink bottle and
notebook at hand. Wait
outside the lab for the teacher.
Grab you lab coat, and safety glasses and run into the lab to check out the equipment
and get the best spot to work at.
Put on your lab coat and safety
glasses, and have only your pencil case, calculator
and notebook at hand. Wait
outside the lab for the teacher.
Your teacher lets you into the lab.
Start playing with the equipment to
check out all of the cool items you’re going to
work with
Pair up with someone and
wait at a workstation
behind a tray of lab equipment.
Start the lab experiment.
During the experiment you are required to
decant 100mL of 0.5M HCL solution into a
250mL beaker
Place latex gloves on and decant 100mL of 0.5M
HCL solution into a 250mL beaker.
Put your nose over the
container of HCL and sniff the
solution to see what it smells
like.
Pick up the container of HCL
solution with your bare hands and
decant into a 250mL beaker.
Your right eye starts to itch.
Rub it quickly with your gloved
hand.
Advise the teacher before
leaving the room, removing your
gloves, washing your hands, and
then rubbing your eye.
Remove your safety glasses and
gloves and scratch it quickly.
You return to the lab with your PPE on and notice the electrical cord on the 4-place
scales is frayed.
Don’t touch it and advise the
teacher immediately.
Put the scale aside and use another one.
Grab some sticky tape and cover
the frayed section.
The teacher goes to the storeroom to get you a
new 4-place scale.
This is your chance. Quickly
test out the Bunsen burner.
Flick some water at your friend
while there working on their
experiment.
Continue with your experiment
if possible.
You notice a gaseous smell.
Check that the gas supply to your Bunsen burner is
turned off and continue with the
experiment.
Advise the teacher
immediately.
Light a match to get rid of the
smell.
The teacher cannot find the source of the leak and asks
everyone to quietly evacuate the room and meet at the
assembly point.
Leave immediately as
per the fire evacuation plan and assemble at
the meeting point.
You see the teacher’s phone on the bench so
you go and grab it to help them out.
Run for your life!!!!
You meet at the assembly point and are
advised that the fire department need to
check out the gas leak before you can re-enter
the lab.
Your lab is over for the day, but you have safely
navigated a potentially dangerous situation.
You’re quick actions may have saved the lives of everyone in your class.
You arrive at class but the teacher can’t let
you into the lab because you don’t
have the required PPE to ensure your safety.
Your spend the lesson at the principles office, and
a note is sent home to your parents advising
them that you came to class unprepared.
The teacher doesn’t notice your drink bottle
as you enter the lab.
During the lab, some HCL solution
contaminates the top of your drink bottle.
What happens next?
You drink from the bottle and . . .
You’re rushed off to hospital to treat the burns to your mouth and throat.
Ahhhhh!! Your mouth is burning from the hydrochloric acid.
No food or drink is to enter the lab.
You trip and hit your head on a table.
You’re taken to hospital for a scan where you spend the next few hours in a
waiting room with a thumping headache.
No running in the lab.
Do not enter the lab without permission
The teacher catches you and you are asked to
leave the lab.
You have to write a 600 word assignment on
laboratory safety rules and sit a written safety test before being allowed to
attend future labs.
Do not do anything unless the teacher has
instructed you to.
You mix the wrong solutions together.
The solutions react exothermically and you lose your eyebrows. It takes over 2 months for
them to grow back.
Do not do anything unless the teacher has
instructed you to.
Some HCL acid gets on your hands and burns
them badly.
You are rushed off to hospital for a skin graft.
You spend months in painful rehabilitation.
Latex gloves are to be worn at all times
during experiments
The acid vapours burn the lining of your
nostrils.
You are rushed off to hospital for treatment. You
may never recover your full sense of smell.
Never sniff any chemical substance
directly.
You get acid solution that’s on your gloves in
you eye.
You are rushed off to hospital for treatment but will now have a permanent
vision impairment.
Do not touch any part of your body with
used/contaminated gloves.
Your lab partner drops a beaker which breaks on the bench and a glass shard gets in your eye.
You are rushed off to hospital for treatment to
have your eyeball scraped. This is a very painful
procedure.
Your safety glasses must remain on at all
times in the lab.
You are electrocuted from the exposed wires.
Your teacher has to perform CPR on you to get
your heart started.
Report all damaged equipment
immediately to the teacher.
Another student uses the scale that you put
aside and is electrocuted.
Your actions have jeopardised another
students safety. They may not survive.
Report all damaged equipment
immediately to the teacher.
You left the gas on too long before lighting it
and it exploded in your face.
The fireball burnt off your eyebrows. It takes over 2 months for them to grow
back.
Do not do anything unless the teacher has
instructed you to.
The teacher catches you and you are asked to
leave the lab.
You have to write a 600 word assignment on
laboratory safety rules and sit a written safety test before being allowed to
attend future labs.
No horseplay in the lab.
It wasn’t your gas supply that was leaking.
It was one at a table behind you.
Later in the experiment, someone lights a match . . .
Your failure to report the leak has cost the
whole class their lives.
Report all potential dangers to the teacher
immediately.
Why would you do that?
Report all potential dangers to the teacher
immediately.
In your cowardly retreat you knock over another
student.
Your actions have jeopardised another
students safety.
Do not run in the lab.
Move calmly and orderly during an
evacuation.
You delay the evacuation of the
whole class
Your actions have jeopardised everyone’s
safety.Do not collect
belongings during an evacuation.
Follow the evacuation procedures.