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Non-Lab Personnel Lab Safety Quiz

Please complete the below Non-Laboratory Personnel Lab Safety Quiz by clicking on the box that best represents a correct answer.

Once you have completed the quiz click the "Submit to EHS&RM" button and the quiz will be emailed directly to fysafety@uaf.edu. Your quiz will be graded and entered into the safety training database.

First Name:

Last Name:

Department:

Department PO Box Number:

Email Address:

Employee or Student Identification Number:

Are you:

Staff / Faculty / UAF Student Employee
UAF Student (if you are a UAF student AND a UAF student employee click above)
Volunteer
Non Affiliate

1. You need to go into Sally's Lab to change a burnt-out light bulb in the ceiling. On the door to the lab you notice a sign that says you must wear safety glasses and nitrile gloves when entering the lab. You:

Ignore the warning and enter the lab because it will only take a minute to change the bulb.
Put on your regular reading glasses and cloth gloves that you have in your coat pocket and enter the lab.
Get safety glasses and gloves from Sally before entering the lab.
Give the bulb to Sally and tell her to change it herself.

2. Flammable, corrosives, reactives, and oxidizers are all what type of hazard?

Mental
Optical/laser
Radiation
Chemical

3. You need to perform work in a lab. Which of the following conditions does NOT apply before starting work?:

Wait for lab personnel to clear the work area of hazardous materials and contamination before beginning work.
Don't move lab equipment or chemicals without direct assistance or approval from lab personnel.
Contact your supervisor and wait for instructions if there is no one in the lab to assist you when laboratory equipment or chemicals need to be moved.
It is okay to enter the lab without giving advanced notice.

4. Before beginning work in a fume hood, you should always check with the Lab Supervisor, Department Safety Coordinator or UAF Industrial Hygienist to determine whether the fume hood has been used for work with perchloric acid.

True
False

5. You found five gallons of old lead paint at the UAF Physical Plant. What do you do with the cans?

Throw them in the trash.
Put them on the FNSB recycling platform.
Call EHS&RM Division of Hazardous Materials to arrange for proper disposal.
Take them home and paint your child's bedroom.

6. You are cleaning the floor in a lab where chairs and waste baskets are in the way. What do you do with them?:

Put them on the counter top and leave them there for the lab personnel to put back.
Move them to another part of the lab and continue cleaning.
Move them out into the hall and leave them there for the lab personnel to put back.
Don't bother cleaning.

7. Never enter a lab containing radioactive materials without authorization from the Lab Supervisor or the UAF Radiation Safety Officer.

True
False

8. You notice a bottle that has the diamond shape, blue, red, yellow and white numerical hazard rating on it. All the blocks have either a 3 or 4 in them. This means:

The contents are of high risk in each of the categories.
The contents pose little or no risk in each of the categories.
You can probably drink what is in the bottle.
The contents of the bottle can be dumped down the drain when no longer needed.