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.