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 Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:29 am
-Lab Safety-
Fulfills requirement for All S&T majors
Instructor: Sir Ardanay Veilwood/pending Quote: A required class for all first-year science and tech majors. Teaches the basics of lab safety and preparation, cleanup, and emergency handling. Prompt You can’t take any basic science classes until you learn some general safety! Professor Veilwood takes it upon himself to make sure all students are prepared before entering into the labs. You’ve been assigned a short essay to cover what you’ve learned. You can cover one or two topics of lab safety, or just give a general review class as a whole. Or do you even write it?
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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:39 am
Cane was not a writer. Or a speaker. He was someone who got things done. Unfortunately for him, and it was something he realized, entry-level classes meant a lot of writing or speaking and far less doing. Now though, he sighed. He'd read a lot, done a few minor experiments, had gotten safety equipment....
Rather than write an essay, he made a list. Lists were good. He could do those. His chicken-scratch writing appeared on the page as he went on and on, with only a few spelling errors. A summary of the chapters in the Lab Manual.
'- Report all dangerous accidents.
- Work in the lab only when you have permission to do so.
- Don't horseplay or do things that could lead to injury of others.
- Make sure everything is clean before you start.
- Use goggles and lab aprons and gloves when instructed to do so.
- No open toed shoes.
- Know where, when, and how to use of the eyewash fountain, fire extinguisher, safety shower, fire alarm box, office intercom button, evacuation routes, clean-up brush and dust pan, glass/chemical disposal can.
-For minor skin burns, immediately plunge the burned area into cold water and notify the teacher.
- If you get any chemical in your eye, immediately wash the eye with the eye-wash fountain and notify the doctor.
- Never look directly into a test tube. View the contents from the side.
- Never smell a material in a test tube or flask directly.
- Immediately notify partner of any chemical spill and clean up the spill as directed.
- Use equipment only as directed:
a. never place chemicals directly on the pan balances.
b. use glycerin when inserting glass tubing into rubber stoppers.
c. be cautious of glassware that has been heated.
d. add boiling chips to liquid that is to be heated before heating.
e. point test tubes that are being heated away from you and others.
- Never taste any material in the lab
- Never add water to concentrated acid solutions. The heat generated may cause spattering. Instead, as you stir, add the acid slowly to water.
- Read the label on chemical bottles at least twice before using the chemical.
- Return all lab materials and equipment to their proper places after use.
- Upon completion of work, wash and dry all equipment, your lab bench and your clean-up area. '
With a sigh at the long list of rules [and hoping he'd never really have to work in a chemical laboratory again], Cane shut his notebook, happy to leave the classroom.
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