When working with hazardous substances in the laboratory your partner splashes a small amount of Sodium Hydroxide onto their clothing, you immediately help them to the safety shower to rinse off for 15 minutes

a.) After you help your partner into the safety shower, what should be your next step?

b.) What should you have with you when reporting the incident to emergency responders?

a) After helping our partner, we should immediately report the incident to the lab manager or any person in charge of the emergencies occurring in the lab.

b) We should have a copy of the Material Safety Data Sheet to give to the responders. This is because the responder can identify what materials were being used by the person ans what other security measures need to be taken.

answers: to make sure that all of the broken pieces of tablet were added to the water, to allow for fair comparison of all three trials, with different particle sizes to avoid experimental error