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Science SPM Chapter 1 Safety Measures in the Laboratory
Personal Protective Equipment in the Laboratory
1. Personal protective equipment is also installed in a laboratory for personal safety
and protection from harm while conducting experiments.

2. Figure 1.2 shows some of the equipment that are available in a laboratory.
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Laminar flow cabinet Fume chamber
Used when carrying out microbiological Used when carrying out experiments involving
experiments to avoid contamination of substances that are flammable, poisonous,
biological samples. corrosive, pungent and volatile. Therefore, it has
a suction fan that pulls contaminated air out from
the laboratory.

Safety shower
Used to immediately clean and rinse parts of the body or
clothes that have come into contact with a toxic chemical
substance or have caught fire.

Eyewash station
Used to immediately rinse and wash eyes that have come
into contact with chemical substances.

How to Use a Safety
Shower and Eyewash
Station
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Figure 1.2 Personal protective equipment in the laboratory

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