Safety Test Flashcards
(28 cards)
Will an inflammable substance burn you?
Yes it will burn very bad
What does PPE stand for?
Personal Protective Equipment
Clothing should cover?
Feet, legs, and body completely
Clean spills promptly with what?
Materials provided by the instructor after he was informed of the spill
Chemicals should never be thrown down the drain without first doing what?
Consulting your lab instructor
Where should solids be disposed?
Trash containers
How should liquids be pipetted?
By using a bulb to siphon the liquids into the pipet
When should the fume hoods be used?
To pour noxious or irritating chemicals, and to run chemical reactions that generate noxious or irritating products
What should you do if your clothes catch on fire?
Walk to a fire blanket and wrap yourself in it
How should acid spills be cleaned?
Use sodium bicarbonate or spill material provided in a hood in each lab
How should base spills be cleaned?
Use a weak acid and water to neutralize the base and clean up the spill
What should be worn when cleaning a spill?
Gloves, apron, and goggles
Always ______ the area when cleaning a spill.
Ventilate
Mercury spills, including broken thermometers, are to be treated by?
Stockroom personnel
Do not attempt to clean mercury spills or handle mercury
What does GHS stand for?
Globally Harmonized System
What does SDS stand for?
Safety Data Sheets
What does the UNCED stand for?
And what is it often called?
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
Earth Summit
Name the 16 physical hazards.
Explosives, flammable gases, flammable aerosols, oxidizing gases, gases under pressure, flammable liquids, flammable solids, self-reactive substances, pyrophoric liquids? Pyrophoric solids, self-heating substances, substances which in contact with water emit flammable gases, oxidizing liquids, oxidizing solids, organic peroxides, corrosive metals
List the 10 health hazards.
Acute toxicity, skin corrosion/irritation, serious eye damage/eye irritation, respiratory or skin sensitization, germ cell mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, reproductive toxicology, target organic system toxicity-single exposure, target organic system toxicity- repeated exposure, aspiration toxicity
List the 3 environmental hazards.
Hazardous to the aquatic environment, acute aquatic toxicity, chronic aquatic toxicity (bioaccumulation potential, rapid degradability)
What does CAS stand for?
Chemical abstract service
What does PELs stand for?
Permissible Exposure Limits
What does ACGIH stand for?
American conference of government industrial hygienists
What does TLVs stand for?
Threshold limit values
