Classroom Safety

  We learned about lab safety, we started off with a scavenger hunt. Then we read a Spongebob story about lab safety. To end off the class we filled in some notes.

Scavenger Hunt


  We were each given a sheet with descriptions of each lab safety equipment. The equipment was spread throughout the classroom but most were easy to see. There were some notable equipment that we couldn't find. After a few minutes of discussing with classmates and walking around we all shared the answers together as a group. Here are a few examples of what we found around the classroom.

Fire Blanket:

 wrapped around a person or thing on fire.

 Fire Extinguisher:

Pull pin, aim, squeeze, and pass over fire.

SpongeBob Lab Safety Story

  After handing each of us a sheet with the story on it we had to read it on our own and find eighteen safety rules that were broken in the story. Some were pretty obvious, others not so much. Ms. Chen gave us about 10-15 minutes to find these rules that were broken by Spongebob and his friends. After awhile some of us compared answers before the time was up. We shared answers together as a group and corrected the sheet as we went along. Here are some broken safety rules that were easy to find. 

"Since the teacher did not tell them to wear the safety goggles, they left them on the table"

"...and then reached across the flame to get a test tube from Gary."

"he knocked over a bottle of the mystery substance and a little splashed on Gary."

Lab Safety Notes: WHMIS

  We finished off class with some good old notes, not just any notes fill in the blank notes. The notes were based around WHMIS:

Workplace

Hazardous

Materials

Information

System

  WHMIS is a information system which helps workers and students know more about safety and health hazards in the workplace or in school. You might see WHMIS around your house, workplace, or school in the form of a WHMIS label. There are Eight different symbols to represent eight general hazards. For example:

Flammable and combustible materials.

Poisonous and infectious materials.

And within the eight different categories they are put into a sub category depending on how dangerous the material is. There are 3 different shapes, octagon being the most dangerous, diamond being mildly dangerous, and triangle being the least dangerous.

We went through the rules and guidelines of classroom safety and what to do first when you or your classmate is injured. All in all it was a day full of safety and guidelines, it may be boring since every year they start off with the safety talk and what not but it's better than being burned or... well watch the video. link below.

-B,C,J,S