The numerous cases of laboratory incidents make it clear that safety in laboratories become an important issue to be discussed. This research investigates the safety perceptions of students on using University teaching laboratory. This study is concentrated to the students who are regularly use chemicals substances in teaching laboratory. Regression is used to get the correlation between safety perception and safety behaviour among students in the teaching laboratory activities. The result showed that respondents have good perceptions on safety in university teaching laboratories but there’s still improvement needed to raise a good perception of threats in order to increase safety behavior.