It is important to know your lab safety because:

If you don’t know were your fire extinguisher or what on Earth a microscope is or even what a Newton gram is then here are a few examples to explain to you what might happen then.

Ex 1: Listening
If you don’t know were your fire safety and what to do in case of a fire is you could be working with a Bunsen Burner and set a paper on fire. You try to put it out but you catch more things on fire. You look around and don’t see the fire extinguisher and you didn’t listen while you were in class. The table catches on fire and then the whole school has to evacuate because you didn’t listen in class when the teacher told you.

Ex 2: Horse playing in Class
So you and your buddy are in class and your teacher assigns you two to a chemical project to do. So your teacher brings you the chemicals and the things you will need. After you finish your project and “clean” up you and your buddy have some extra time in class. So you have a pencil war. The girl sitting next to you gets up with her chemicals to go dump into the sink and you bump her and she spills it all over her and has to go to the hospital because of chemical burns.

Ex 3:Following Instructions
Your teacher assigns you a step by step experiment and you being the stubborn person that you are don’t want to follow the instructions. So you do it how you want it. You accidentally mix the chemicals before you are supposed to and things go wrong. So you have to explain to your teacher that you didn’t follow the instructions and you get an F.

These are 3 reasons to always follow lab safety when you are doing anything from sneezing to creating a bomb when in a lab.