Chemical laboratory safety has plenty of terminology to learn and know.
Educators should be familiar with the following:
Students should be able to define, explain, and understand the following terms and concepts at a basic level. These terms support understanding of the recommended Learning Objectives.
- Acute toxicity
- Asphyxiant
- Autoignition temperature
- Biological hazards (infectious agents, blood-borne pathogens)
- Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE)
- Carcinogen
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- Chronic toxicity
- Compressed gas
- Corrosive
- Cryogen
- Electrical hazard
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Explosives
- Fetotoxicant
- Flammability
- Flash point
- Globally Harmonized System (GHS)
- Halogen
- Hazard
- High- and low-pressure systems
- Immediate danger to life or health (IDLH)
- Incompatible chemicals
- Lachrymator
- Lethal concentration, 50% (LC50)
- Lethal dose, 50% (LD50)
- Long-term exposure limit (LTEL)
- Mutagen
- National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
- Organ toxicant
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Occupational exposure limit (OEL)
- Permissible exposure limit (PEL)
- Peroxide
- Personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Pyrophoric
- Radioactive and radiological hazards
- RAMP system
- Reactive/unstable chemicals
- Risk
- Runaway reaction
- Safety Data Sheet (SDS)
- Sensitizers (allergens)
- Short-term exposure limit (STEL)
- Sublimation
- Teratogen
- Threshold limit value (TLV)
- Time-weighted average (TWA)
- Toxicity
- Ultraviolet radiation
