Lab and Tool Safety

Having a strong set of overall laboratory safety rules is essential to avoiding disasters in the lab. Of course, safety rules are only effective when they are followed and enforced, which is why strong lab management is so important to a safe laboratory as well. Essentially laboratory safety is common sense. However it is important that everyone review the safety rules and know the operation of each and every hand tool, power hand tool, and machine tool.

Below is a lab safety agreement that should be read, and signed by every student and kept within a safety file.

ITEEA has a website that would be useful for teachers needing to develop a safety program within their departments. Type "ITEEA safety resources" in your favorite browser and the site should come up.