BIO210 STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIESLABORATORY POLICIES AND SAFETY PRECAUTIONS I. Safety Precautions1. No drinks or food in lab or left in the hallway at any time due to safety considerations. 2. No visitors or children in lab or lab prep room at any time.3. Read the safety contract, know where and how to use the safety features in the lab (eyewash station, shower, fire extinguisher) and sign the contract before the third week of classes.4. Report injuries immediately to your lab instructor.5. Protective eye wear and gloves (provided by the student) are required when dissecting. II. Policies1. No visitors, food or drinks in any science lab.2. Use cleaning solution and paper towels to clean your workstation before and after each lab.3. Paper towels, cleaning solution bottle, distilled water bottle, and microscope lens cleaning solution and paper are to be returned to the bin located in the center of each counter top. 4. Return chair height and arms to lowest position and push under the bench.5. Do not write on or remove labels from any location in lab6. Put model parts in place before returning to cart or designated location in lab.7. If muscles are left in disarray the corresponding lab quiz will consist of disassembled models!8. Move and use the models carefully. Models are very expensive and not easily replaced. Do not use pens or pencils as pointers on models. Plastic straw stirrers are available for this purpose.9. Make sure models do not leave the lab. 10. Remove any labels you placed on models. III. Success in Anatomy and Physiology Labs1. The laboratory experience is designed to supplement and complement material covered in lecture, and is an integral part of the course. The laboratory instructorswill give a sufficient amount of information and guidance to allow students to complete each lab, but success in lab primarily involves the individual effort of each student. 2. Do not ask or expect to leave class early. 3. Read laboratory exercises on the syllabus before coming to class.4. Bring all necessary materials to lab, including your text.5. Do not disturb any equipment or demonstrations that have been set up, until your instructor has told you how to proceed with the assignment.6. Students are expected to carefully follow lab directions given by the instructor.7. Do not hesitate to ask your lab instructor for clarification of any instructions you do not understand. However, do not expect your lab instructor to simply give you answers to information you should be obtaining through the completion of the various lab exercises.8. At the end of each lab, leave your work space in good order by discarding waste materials, cleaning and disinfecting your lab table, returning all materials used to their proper place, and sliding your chair back under the table.9. Laboratory exercises must be completed during the assigned lab period unless otherwise designated by your instructor. 10. Open labs will be scheduled at times during the week. Availability of rooms, materials, tutors, and funding limit the number of labs that can be offered. Many students will be attending each session. 11. Use the open labs for studying what you have learned in lab, not as a substitute. There is adequate time in lab to learn the lab objectives and open labs may not be available to fit into your schedule. IV. Lab Quizzes1. Lab quizzes are practicals set up in stations. You will meet outside the Practical Lab door (Lexington Hall 132) on lab quiz days. The lab is on the airport side of the building. No students are permitted in the prep room area and no one may enter the lab without the lab instructor. The optional final exams may be held in the regular lab. 2. Each student must take the quiz with his/her regular lab class.3. Once entering the lab, students may not talk to other students. Each student will take a station and wait until the instructor says to move to the next station. You will always move to the next higher numbered station. After completing the final test question, move to the first station. You will be permitted to return to stations – only one student per station- but only after all students have had an opportunity to visit each station. The time allowed to revisit stations will be determined by the instructor.4. Do not touch, move, probe, etc. items on lab practical. Notify the instructor if there is a problem.5. Talking among students, more than one student per station, and not covering an answer sheet gives the appearance of cheating. Behavior that gives the appearance of cheating will be address as such. 6. Points will be deducted for spelling. Lab quizzes will not be graded immediately but will be returned at the next lab class. Students will record their grades and must return the test to the instructor. Students will not provide quiz information to other BIO 210 students. An optional final quiz will be given to replace a missed quiz or a low grade if all quizzes were taken.7. No bonus or extra credit will be given in lab. V. Use and Care of the Microscope1. When using the microscopes:a. Your instructor will give you details on how to lift scope from the cabinet, use and store the microscope. Follow these instructions and ask questionsas needed. b. Clean all microscope lenses with the solution & paper provided before and after using the scopes. This is especially important when using dyes.c. Make sure to use the lever on the stage clip to position the slide on the scope. Lifting up the slide without using the lever results in damage to the clip.d. Handle the slides carefully and return to appropriate color-coded slide box in numerical order and return slide box to proper drawer. 2. If scope is not working:a. Check light adjustment knob and power switch.b. Make sure power cord is inserted at back of scope.c. Inform your lab instructor.3. Returning microscopes to proper storage positiona. Light off and slide offb. Stage or nosepiece all the way downc. 4x objective in placed. cord to side **(note that cord should remain in bundle and doesn’t need to be uncoiled to reach outlet)e. Eyepieces to back of scope, do not move headf. Plastic covers placed over scopeg. Place in cabinet with arm and scope # facing the open door of cabinet and check that scope # corresponds to cabinet #.4. All students will spend time on the microscope to learn the slides. Do not substitute viewing the slides on the plasma screen or using microscopes set up byother students or instructors.