Laboratory Safety

Safety rules for the physics laboratory are in provided in the lab handbook. You are responsible for becoming familiar with these rules. Failure to follow these rules may result in your removal from the laboratory, and will have a negative impact on your grade.

1. Food and beverages are not allowed in the lab room. You must leave these things outside, or keep them in your closed backpacks. This includes personal water bottles! Students with food or beverage containers in the lab room will be asked the leave the lab room and will receive a zero for that lab. No exceptions. This is your warning.
2. You must wear closed-toe shoes in lab, no sandals. If you forget to wear closed-toed shoes, and the teaching staff judges the risk of injury to be greater than 20%, then you will be required to leave the lab room, and you will receive zero for that experiment. If the teaching staff judges the risk of injury to be less than 20%, then your TA may allow you to stay, but 15 points will be deducted from your lab report grade for that experiment. Your TA will note the permission and the point deduction on your data sheet. If Dr. Kinslow visits the lab room, and you are not wearing the appropriate footwear, and there is no note on your lab sheet giving you permission to stay without closed-toed shoes, then you will have to leave the lab room and will receive a zero for that experiment.