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This document provides safety guidelines and instructions for students working in a chemistry laboratory. It stresses the importance of arriving prepared, keeping a clean and organized work area, wearing proper protective equipment like goggles and lab coats, and following specific safety practices when handling chemicals or dangerous equipment to prevent accidents and contamination.

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Lab 1

This document provides safety guidelines and instructions for students working in a chemistry laboratory. It stresses the importance of arriving prepared, keeping a clean and organized work area, wearing proper protective equipment like goggles and lab coats, and following specific safety practices when handling chemicals or dangerous equipment to prevent accidents and contamination.

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INTRODUCTION

& SAFETY
RULES

GENERAL LAB INSTRUCTIONS


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It is essential to develop a high standard of professional practice during training.

Arrive for your class well prepared and try to work independently.

Confidence in your own ability will grow with self-reliance.

Remember that teaching staff is usually a more reliable source of help than fellow students.

Mistakes are an inevitable and useful part of learning process so long as they are recognized and corrected.

Wear a freshly laundered lab coat to protect your clothes and the preparations you are dealing
with. Class participation in laboratory means being in class ON TIME and ready to go.

Work in a clean and tidy manner, so as to The working space should be kept clear of books and paper.
reduce the risk of errors and
contamination. Use clean equipment (spatula, pipets,) to avoid contamination of stock reagents.

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Each student is responsible for the appearance of his desk and balance at all time, and
should spend about 10 minutes at the end of each period cleaning his equipment, working
area, and sink.

Be sure to use the balance properly, since it is a sensitive and delicate apparatus. Use
weighing paper to protect the pan, and immediately clean any spilled chemicals on the
balance to avoid corrosion. The balance should be in the stand by position WHEN NOT IN
USE.
You should also bring a CALCULATOR.

In order to prevent confusion, students are not to leave the laboratory without first
obtaining permission from an instructor. Receiving said permission, the student is to
minimize his or her absence.

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Safety
Regulations
and
Practices

DISREGARD FOR THE LABORATORY SAFETY REGULATIONS WILL RESULT


DEDUCTION OF POINTS FROM THE LABORATORY GRADE.
REPEATED DISREGARD FOR THE LABOAROTY SAFETY REGULATIONS WILL LEAD TO
EXPULSION FROM THE LABORATORY.

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• Safety goggles must be worn over the eyes at all times in the laboratory!
• Contact lenses are not to be worn in the laboratory. They offer no protection in themselves; they
are unsafe even under safety goggles. Various fumes may be concentrated under the lenses and
against the eye. You may not work in the lab wearing contact lenses.
• Smoking, drinking, and eating are forbidden in the laboratory because of the possibility of getting
into the mouth or lungs.
• Confine long hair and loose clothing when in the laboratory.
• Most chemicals are harmful to some degree.
• Avoid direct contact with any chemical. It is especially important to keep chemicals from the
hands, face, arms, legs, clothing and shoes.
• Wash thoroughly with soap and warm water whenever a chemical contact your skin.
• NEVER taste a chemical. NEVER smell a chemical directly.
• When instructed to smell something, bring a small sample of the vapor your nose by means of
a cupped hand.

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• Operations involving flammable gases, toxic vapors, or noxious odors should be performed
in hood.
• Mouth suction should never be used to fill pipettes. Use a pipette pump.
• Always add a reagent slowly; never "dump" it in Beware of exothermic reactions.
• To avoid splashing always pour more concentrated solutions carefully into less
concentrated ones of into water with stirring.
• This is especially true of concentrated sulfuric acid where tremendous quantities or
heat are generated.
• Always add acids to water.
• Do not mix strong acids with strong base directly.

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