Hazard Symbols Chart
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Lab Safety: Rules, Activities, and Posters
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Storyboard Description
Hazard Symbols Chart and Hazard Examples. Teach lab safety with comics!
Storyboard Text
- Hazard Symbol
- Serious Health Hazard
- Acute Toxicity
- Health Hazard
- Explosive
- Oxidizing
- Hazardous to the Environment
- Flammable
- Gas Under Pressure
- Corrosive
- Any substance that could cause serious chronic health effects, including any carcinogens
- Any substance that can cause harm or fatality after swallowing it, breathing it in, or after contact with the skin
- Any substance that can cause irritation and sensitivity on or in the body
- Any substance that could explode and is unstable
- Any substance that has an oxidizer and is therefore a fire hazard
- Any substance that poses a threat to the environment, including danger to aquatic life
- Any substance that can easily be set alight
- Any gas or dissolved gas that is being kept at pressure. (This doesn’t mean the gas is dangerous, even normally safe gases come with risks when they are pressurized.)
- Any substance that can corrode and cause skin or eye damage
- Example
- Asbestos
- Mercury
- Copper Sulfate
- Fireworks
- Bleach
- Gasoline
- Ethanol
- Butane Gas Tank
- Sodium Hydroxide
Image Attributions
- 553px-Pouring_liquid_mercury_bionerd - GrrlScientist - (License Attribution )
- bleeech - fredsharples - (License Attribution )
- Fireworks - bayasaa - (License Attribution )
- Gas Bottles - Disco-Dan - (License Attribution )
- IMG_9508 - V31S70 - (License Attribution )
- Is this suspicious? - xJason.Rogersx - (License Attribution )
- Making Copper Sulphate Crystals With Miss Peaston! - tjmwatson - (License Attribution )
- Old Petrol Pump - Tim Green aka atoach - (License Attribution )
- Sodium Hydroxide 6mol Corrosive Lab Chemicals - maticulous - (License Attribution )
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