Teaching Chemistry Safety: A Personal Issue

Authors

Judith Lemons, Hannibal LaGrange College

Document Type

Article

Abstract

As chemistry teachers, it is our moral and legal duty to make the laboratory a safe and healthy place for our students. However, safety policies will be most effective if the students share the responsibilities for promoting safety and preventing accidents. We can help to motivate our students to remember and apply safety principles if we make safety a personal issue for each student. I have found that a student will more readily comply with laboratory rules on a regular basis if the rules are important for that student, and that student has actively participated in the safety learning process.

Publication Date

Autumn 1992

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Volume

29

Issue

2

First Page

2

Last Page

4

Copyright

© Copyright 1992 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Lemons, Judith (1992) "Teaching Chemistry Safety: A Personal Issue," Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 29: No. 2, Article 2.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol29/iss2/2