I’ve been swotting up on chemistry a little and I found a good resource at about.com. It includes some chemistry safety recommendations:

Dress Appropriately (for chemistry lab, not fashion or the weather)
No sandals, no clothes you love more than life, no contact lenses, and long pants are preferable to shorts or short skirts. Tie long hair back. Wear safety goggles and a lab coat. Even if you aren’t clumsy, someone else in the lab probably is. If you take even a few chemistry courses you will probably see people set themselves on fire, spill acid on themselves, others, or notes, splash themselves in the eye, etc. Don’t be the bad example to others, remembered for all time for something stupid!

Don’t Play Mad Scientist
Don’t haphazardly mix chemicals! Pay attention to the order in which chemicals are to be added to each other and do not deviate from the instructions.

Perhaps chemistry is not the best discipline for me as I have a formidable reputation for clumsiness, or as Lucy Lawless once put it, “I’m an unko”. As does my darling sister.

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