Guidelines for care & Use of Dry Solvent Stills [Example]

B. General Safety Procedures
1. BASIC SAFETY RULES FOR ALL UNDERGRADUATE LABORATORIES
(prepared by Chemistry Department Faculty members)
Read these safety regulations carefully, and be sure you understand them. Before each laboratory
session, your instructor will discuss any safety hazards that might be associated with that day's experiment.
1. Report all accidents to your instructor immediately. If you cut or burn yourself or accidentally
inhale fumes, notify your instructor at once. The instructor will arrange immediate treatment.
Learn the locations of the fire extinguishers, the safety showers, the fire blanket, eyewash, and
phone, so that you can use them quickly in the case of an emergency. Your lab instructor will
point out the emergency exits/routes out of Salem Hall in the case of an emergency.
2. Wear safety goggles/glasses in the laboratory at all times. Always wear eye covering that will
protect your eyes against both impact and splashes. (If you should get chemical in your eye, wash
the eye with flowing water from the special eye-wash fountain for 15 to 20 minutes).
3. Do not perform any unauthorized experiments!
4. Do not use mouth suction to fill pipettes with chemical reagents. (Use a suction bulb to fill
pipettes).
5. Exercise great care in noting the odor of fumes and avoid breathing fumes of any kind. Carry out
experiments that produce noxious vapors in your fume hood. Arrange your apparatus setups so
that the fume producing portion is inside the hood.
6. Do not taste anything in the laboratory. (This applies to food as well as chemicals. Do not use the
laboratory as an eating place; never eat or drink from laboratory glassware.)
7. Confine long hair whenever you are in the laboratory.
8. Place all hot glassware on a mat to cool; this will also signify to all laboratory personnel that the
glassware is hot. Do not hand hot glassware to another person, because a person's natural instinct
is to reach for it.
9. Corrosive acids and bases are very soluble in water. If either a corrosive acid or base comes in
contact with your skin, you can wash it of your skin before damage is done. Haste in washing the
affected area is essential. Summon the laboratory instructor if you spill a corrosive acid or base
on your skin. If strong acids are spilled on your skin, bathe the skin with dilute sodium
bicarbonate after flooding with water for about 10 minutes. If strong bases are spilled on the skin,
bathe the skin with a dilute solution of acetic acid or boric acid after flooding for about 10 minutes.
If chemicals get into your eyes, immediately wash the eyes with a gentle stream of water from the
eye wash for 15-20 minutes. Do not use dilute solutions of sodium bicarbonate, acetic acid, or
boric acid in the eyes. After flushing with water, the student will be transported to the Student
Health Service. If bromine or iodine is spilled on the skin, the skin should be immediately bathed
with alcohol (ethanol) and then with glycerin.
10. If you are preparing a dilute acid solution, never pour water into concentrated acid. Always pour
the acid into the water while stirring the water constantly.
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