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About This Simulation
Join lab assistant Marie to find out how to decide on the correct laboratory practice and personal protective equipment when dealing with hazardous chemicals. Learn the meaning of the hazard symbols and apply your knowledge with some example chemicals.
Learning Objectives
- Interpret the hazard symbols associated with different chemicals
- Locate the hazard symbols on the bottle or container
- Apply hazard identification skills to safe working practice in the laboratory
- Locate important information in a safety data sheet
About This Simulation
Lab Techniques
- Personal protective equipment
- Hazard symbols
- How to clean up stains/spillages
Related Standards
- Lab safety support
- Generic lab safety support
- Supports The Laboratory Safety Institute’s Laboratory Safety Guidelines
Learn More About This Simulation
This short, targeted simulation is adapted from the full-length “Chemistry Safety” simulation.
Hazards are everywhere, but can you minimize the risks? In this simulation, you will work with lab assistant Marie to identify the hazard symbols of hazardous chemicals related to a biodiesel production experiment. Learn the meaning of the hazard symbols and apply this knowledge in the lab with example chemicals.
Equip yourself safely in the lab
You will learn about the correct laboratory practice, by being introduced to ensuring they always wear the appropriate personal protective equipment in the lab before beginning any lab experiment, and handling a variety of hazardous chemicals.
Learn the hazard symbols
Test your own general knowledge on the hazard symbols in an interactive minigame. Here, you will have to identify the correct hazard symbols which represent the description provided in each question. You will be made aware that there are still hazards related to solvents used to clean up workstations such as cleaning up a stain or spillages in a fumehood. Also highlighting the hazards and risks involved when the stain or spillage is of an unknown substance and the standard precaution taken with such unknown substances.
Chemistry safety data sheet
How do you interpret safety data sheets? You are exposed to the chemistry safety documentation that is available for most chemicals. You are required to observe and identify the correct P statements for hazards for example chemicals related to a biodiesel production experiment. One of the examples for this is methanol. This will consolidate your understanding on how to properly handle and work with specific chemicals in the lab. Finally, you are given the opportunity to test your understanding of the document with quiz questions that require pinpointing the right information about the chemical.
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