🎯 WALT (We Are Learning To)
Identify and apply essential laboratory safety procedures and equipment usage
Success Criteria:
• I can identify safety equipment and their purposes
• I can recognise safety symbols and their meanings
• I can explain proper laboratory behaviour and emergency procedures
📋 Instructions
Choose the best answer for each question by filling in the circle. Read each question carefully before answering.
🧪 Part A: Safety Equipment (Questions 1-4)
1. What is the primary purpose of safety goggles in the laboratory?
To look professional
To protect eyes from chemicals and glass
To help you see better
To keep hair out of your face
2. When should you use the emergency shower in a science lab?
When you feel hot
If large amounts of chemicals spill on your body or clothes
To clean equipment
At the end of every practical
3. What should you do if you cut yourself with broken glass?
Continue working and ignore it
Immediately inform the teacher and apply first aid
Put the glass in the regular rubbish bin
Wash it with chemicals
4. Fire blankets are used to:
Keep equipment warm
Smother small fires or wrap around a person whose clothes are on fire
Clean up spills
Cover experiments
⚠️ Part B: Safety Symbols & Behaviour (Questions 5-8)
5. A chemical bottle with a skull and crossbones symbol means:
The chemical is old
The chemical is toxic/poisonous
The chemical is expensive
The chemical is radioactive
6. Which behaviour is NOT appropriate in a science laboratory?
Wearing closed-toe shoes
Eating your lunch during practical work
Tying back long hair
Listening to teacher instructions
7. Before starting any experiment, you should:
Start immediately to save time
Read all instructions and understand the safety requirements
Ask your friend what to do
Use any equipment you can find
8. When heating substances with a Bunsen burner, you should:
Leave it unattended
Always supervise it and use appropriate equipment like tongs
Touch the flame to test temperature
Place it near flammable materials
🚨 Part C: Emergency Procedures (Questions 9-12)
9. If you spill acid on the bench, you should:
Wipe it up with paper towel immediately
Inform the teacher and follow their instructions for safe cleanup
Pour water on it straight away
Leave it for someone else to clean
10. The correct way to smell a chemical is to:
Put your nose directly over the container
Waft the vapour towards your nose with your hand
Take a deep breath directly from the bottle
Never smell chemicals in the laboratory
11. If the fire alarm sounds during a practical lesson, you should:
Finish your experiment first
Turn off gas taps and electrical equipment if safe to do so, then evacuate
Hide under the desk
Continue working as it's probably just a drill
12. Broken glass should be:
Picked up with your hands
Swept up with a brush and pan, then placed in a special sharps container
Left on the floor
Put in the regular rubbish bin
🌟 Extension Activity
13. Explain in your own words why laboratory safety rules are important:
📚 Differentiation Support
For additional support: Review the safety symbols poster in your classroom and discuss any questions with your teacher.
Dyslexia-friendly option: Ask your teacher about accessing this quiz in larger font or alternative format.
