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What you will be able to do

1. 01Apply the laboratory alarm, evacuation, accountability and no-re-entry sequence to fire scenarios.
2. 02Explain why fire chemistry and spill chemistry inform prevention without authorizing untrained intervention.
3. 03Classify broken-glass, heating, pressure, transfer and waste hazards and select the correct student stop-and-alert action.
4. 04Evaluate unsafe student reasoning and repair it using scene safety, assigned roles, SDS evidence and the site plan.

Safe laboratory conduct is the deliberate control of energy, materials and movement. Fires, spills, cuts and pressure failures are not isolated topics: each begins when a hazard reaches a vulnerable person or when a process escapes its intended boundary. A flammable vapour meets an ignition source; incompatible wastes meet in a drain; hot liquid is trapped in a closed vessel; contaminated glass reaches an unprotected hand. Prevention asks what must remain separated, contained, cooled, labelled or supervised. Emergency response asks how to warn others, leave safely, begin assigned first aid and bring trained resources to the scene. The student’s default role is limited but important: recognize abnormal conditions, stop work if safe, alert the teacher, activate the site alarm when required, evacuate or isolate as directed, report to the assembly point and do not re-enter until authorized.