Safety Refresher Quiz - SafetyRefresherNET

1 Choose the correct answer(s): The Accident Response and Reporting Procedure defines?

a. what steps to take in an emergency accident,
b. what steps to take in a non-urgent accident,
c. what steps to take in a non-injury/near miss incident,
d. what steps to take during a lone shooter incident.

2 True or False. Every lab should segregate their micro centrifuge tubes/vials with chemicals in them for hazardous waste disposal while pipettes and tips are segregated for trash disposal?

True
False

3 Check the correct answer: What specific injury occurred the most at the Center in 2025?

a. Cuts,
b. Chemical exposure,
c. trips, slips, and falls,
d. ergonomic

4 Circle the correct answer(s): Why should you NOT look at your phone while you walk?

a. You may collide into an object,
b. you may collide into another person,
c. you may go places that you don't want to go,
d. you might trip, slip or fall

5 Circle the correct answer(s): How does the Center notify personnel of an emergency (i.e., tornado, active shooter)?

a. there is no notification,
b. by yelling really loud,
c. blow horn,
d. the emergency notification system.

6 True or False. Near miss reports help identify hazards before an actual accident occurs. Reporting a near miss helps keep the Center more safe.

True
False

7 Check the correct answer(s): When completing an Injury/Illness Report, you should:

a. get the sheet in the Safety Forms Library in Workvivo, or go click the link to CampusOptics,
b. fill out as soon after the incident as possible,
c. fill out the top half and then give it to your supervisor, or complete your part within CampusOptics,
d. blame your phone since you tripped and fell while walking and looking at it.

8 True or False. Before you receive medical assistance, Safety has to be contacted so Safety can notify BarnesCare or the Emergency Room of your arrival.

True
False

9 True or False. You can interchange rotors from other models with other centrifuges.

True
False

10 Check the correct answer(s): A chemical's Safety Data Sheet (SDS) will give you information about:

a. what chemical hazard(s) it has,
b. handling and storage information,
c. the price of the chemical,
d. what personal protective equipment (PPE) to wear.

11 Check the correct answer(s). When you hear the fire alarm, what are the 3 steps that you need to take?

a. Run to the nearest fire exit,
b. evacuate safely to the nearest fire exit,
c. then go to the nearest Reporting Area dependent on your current location,
d. and finally check in with the person taking head count.

12 True or False. In an emergency, if you need Security or Safety personnel immediately in the laboratory, press the panic button.

True
False

13 Check the correct answer. Where do you work with hazardous substances like methanol (reproductive toxin) or osmium tetroxide (highly toxic)?

a. On the benchtop,
b. in a laminar hood,
c. in the researcher's office,
d. in a fume hood.

14 True or False. Closing the flammable storage cabinet door without latching it will still protect the flammable chemicals inside during a fire.

True
False

15 True or False. Only dilute, non-regulated (not listed by EPA or DOT), water-soluble substances should be disposed of in laboratory sinks.

True
False

16 Check the correct answer(s): When placing waste into a waste container you have to record what on the waste sheet:

a. The chemical name to be disposed,
b. the amount or volume of the waste,
c. chemical concentrations of the waste,
d. the date.

17 True or False. Anyone can fly a drone at the Center or at the Fisher Farm whenever they want?

True
False

18 True or False. You can just pour viable liquid biological waste straight down the sink.

True
False

19 Check the correct answer(s): Which items could be potential USDA regulated material?

a. Plant pathogens,
b. Jim Cox, the Chemical Hygiene Officer,
c. transgenic plants,
d. chemicals.

20 Check the correct answer(s): What kind of safety hood/cabinet do you need when working with a potentially infectious biological material?

a. Chemical fume hood,
b. biological safety cabinet,
c. laminar flow hood,
d. I can do this work at the bench.

21 True or False. Only transgenic plant waste (not wild-type) should be placed in the orange waste containers and hoppers.

True
False

22 True or False. Biowaste material cannot be transported from another building (like Brdg Park) to the Plant Growth Facility (PGF).

True
False

23 True or False. Researchers handling plants that have been sprayed with pesticides are considered "Agricultural Workers" according to the EPA Worker Protection Standard (WPS) and so must abide by those regulations.

True
False

24 True or False. Researchers are permitted to enter an area where the following sign is posted in order to retrieve important plant samples if they do so in a prompt manner.

True
False

25 Check the correct answer(s): In which of the following areas may one come in contact with pesticides or pesticide residues?

a. Greenhouses,
b. the Pesticide Room: A0018,
c. growth chambers,
d. the Pesticide Room: B0036.