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What provides delegation of details for implementation to a specific federal or state agency? - ✔✔✔Laws What is a method for providing guidelines for compliance with the law? - ✔✔✔Regulation NFPA creates voluntary consensus ______ - ✔✔✔Standards What establishes a single comprehensive national incident management system (NIMS) and Presidential Policy Directives? - ✔✔✔Homeland Security Presidential Directives What has the goal to secure and resilient nation with the capabilities required across the whole community to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk? - ✔✔✔Presidential Policy Directives What law regulates labeling, shipping, and packing of hazardous materials? - ✔✔✔Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (1974) What law created a manifest tracking system, and established permit system for treatment, storage, and disposal? - ✔✔✔Resource Conservation Recovery Act (1976)
What law is known as a superfund, and made responsible parties pay for cleanup of scenes, and created a notification system for spills? - ✔✔✔Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation Liability Act (1980) What law required OSHA to develop health and safety standards that eventually brought about 29 CFR 1910.120 Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER)? - ✔✔✔Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title 1 What law is also known as the emergency planning and community right to know act and created state emergency response commission and local emergency planning committees? - ✔✔✔Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title 3 What law requires facilities to submit an emergency and hazardous chemical inventory to SERC, LEPC, and local fire departments? - ✔✔✔Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title 3 What NFPA standard covers competencies for first responders dealing with Hazmat operations? - ✔✔✔NFPA 472 What is a plan that should be consistent with local emergency response plan and within the capabilities and training level of the team, and trained on and examined and updated frequently? - ✔✔✔Standard Operation Guideline (SOG) What is the 5 step process for hazardous materials incidents? - ✔✔✔Isolate, Identify, Notify, Mitigate, Terminate
What is a boiling liquid/expanding vapor explosion; an explosion that occurs when pressurized liquefied materials inside a closed vessel are exposed to a source of high heat? - ✔✔✔BLEVE What is the temperature when a liquid changes its phase into a vapor or gas? - ✔✔✔Boiling point What is the ability of a chemical to undergo an alteration in its chemical make- up, usually accompanied by a release of some form of energy? - ✔✔✔Chemical reactivity What is the combined process of emission, transmission, and absorption of energy traveling by electromagnetic wave propagation between a region of higher temperature and a region of lower temperature? - ✔✔✔Radiation What is an expression of a fuel/air mixture, defined by upper and lower limits, that reflects an amount of flammable vapor mixed with a given volume of air? - ✔✔✔Flammable Range What is the minimum temperature at which a liquid or a solid releases sufficient vapor to form an ignitable mixture with air? - ✔✔✔Flash point What is the minimum temp required to cause self-sustained combustion in absence of any source of ignition? - ✔✔✔Ignition/Autoignition What refers to solids and is usually expressed in microns or percent passing through a meshed screen? - ✔✔✔Particle Size
What is the length of time a chemical agent stays as a liquid? - ✔✔✔Persistence What type of chemicals are typically dense, oily substances with high molecular weights and low vapor pressures? - ✔✔✔Persistent chemicals What is the condition in which matter exists under specified kinetic conditions?
- ✔✔✔Physical state What is it when the weight of a substance or material is compared with the weight of an equal volume of water? - ✔✔✔Specific Gravity What are all the byproducts of combustion that are considered toxic? - ✔✔✔Toxic products of combustion What is the weight of an airborne concentration as compared to an equal volume of dry air? - ✔✔✔Vapor Density What is the pressure exerted on the inside of a closed container by the vapor in the space above the liquid in the container? - ✔✔✔Vapor Pressure What is the ability for a substance to dissolve in water? - ✔✔✔Water solubility What is a technique for significantly reducing the amount of surface contaminant by application of a continuous shower of water prior to the removal of outer clothing? - ✔✔✔Primary (Gross) Decontamination What type of contamination does the responder come in direct contact with the hazardous material? - ✔✔✔Primary (Gross) Contamination
Decontaminating individuals in handcuffs, human threats, scene security, secondary devices, and weapons control are all factors to account for in what type of event? - ✔✔✔Criminal or Terrorist Situation When a situation goes bad, and responders lives are threatened or technicians need to get out of the hot zone fast, what decontamination is used? - ✔✔✔Emergency Decontamination What type of decontamination can the the contaminated be pulled from the side into the decontamination pools, there's more contact with the contaminated person, and is very labor intensive? - ✔✔✔Non-Ambulatory Decontamination What type of decontamination uses fog nozzles to spray large numbers of people that need decontaminated? - ✔✔✔Mass Decontamination What are the five incident tactical response objectives? - ✔✔✔Isolate, Identify, Notify, Mitigate, Terminate Expandable as needed, common procedures and terminology, unified command and objectives, system readily adaptable to numbers of operations are all advantages of what? - ✔✔✔Incident Management System What gives a national standard that hazardous materials incidents can be managed as? - ✔✔✔NIMS Of the 5 Primary ICS/IMS functions, which group has control over the entire incident? - ✔✔✔Command
Of the 5 Primary ICS/IMS functions, which group carries out all of the objectives set by the IC and is responsible for all tactical tasks? - ✔✔✔Operations Of the 5 Primary ICS/IMS functions, which group is responsible for the collection, evaluation, dissemination, and use of information relevant to the incident? - ✔✔✔Planning Of the 5 Primary ICS/IMS functions, which group is responsible for providing the facilities, services, and materials needed for the incident? - ✔✔✔Logistics Of the 5 Primary ICS/IMS functions, which group tracks all of the costs related to the incident, handles procurement issues, records the time that responders are on the incident for billing purposes, and keeps a running cost of the incident? - ✔✔✔Finance What is it called when a senior member relieves IC, and initial command receives new assignment from new IC? - ✔✔✔Transfer of Command Which control zone is set up where the hazardous material gives off a reading?
- ✔✔✔Hot Zone Which control zone is set up as a decontamination gateway? - ✔✔✔Warm Zone Which control zone is set up far from the hazardous material and Command post and all other people outside of the incident are set up? - ✔✔✔Cold Zone What is it called when threatened people are moved to a safer are? - ✔✔✔Evacuation
What needs to be documented, treated like federal documents, has all records and forms from the scene filled out, and follows an ICS plan of 12 different pages? - ✔✔✔Site Safety Plan What are non-pressure tanks, pressure tanks, and cryogenic liquid tanks considered as? - ✔✔✔Fixed Facility Bulk Storage Tanks What are bags, carboys, cylinders, drums, and lab packs considered as? - ✔✔✔Fixed Facility Non-Bulk Storage Containers What are Type A, Type B, industrial, excepted, and strong containers considered as? - ✔✔✔Radioactive Material Containers What are HAZCOM, Military Markings, Chemical Hazard Symbols, and Pesticide Labels? - ✔✔✔Markings found on storage containers at fixed facilities 4 horizontal bars, color and numerical codification identical to NFPA 704, white represents PPE, and coding system list identifies equip to be worn daily are all characteristics of what? - ✔✔✔HAZCOM In Military Markings, Mass detonation hazards, shaped as octagon, are what class? - ✔✔✔Class 1 In Military Markings, Explosion with fragment hazard, shaped as an X, are what class? - ✔✔✔Class 2 In Military Markings, Mass Fire Hazard, shaped as an upside down triangle, are what class? - ✔✔✔Class 3
In Military Markings, moderate fire hazard, shaped as a diamond, are what class? - ✔✔✔Class 4 Name of the material, signal words, and label information will all be found on what? - ✔✔✔Pesticide Labels For signal words on pesticide labels, Danger/Poison means what? - ✔✔✔High Toxicity For signal words on pesticide labels, Warning means what? - ✔✔✔Moderate Toxicity For signal words on pesticide labels, Caution means what? - ✔✔✔Low Toxicity What level of chemical PPE has limits of reduced mobility, reduced vision, and is not appropriate for LEL atmospheres? - ✔✔✔Class A What level of chemical PPE has limits of not being able to be used for gas or vapor protection, and some suits don't cover the whole body? - ✔✔✔Class B What two chemical PPE classes provide the highest respiratory protection because of the use of a SCBA - ✔✔✔Class A and Class B What level of chemical PPE has limits of not being able to be used in IDLH, has little mechanical protection, and has no thermal protection? - ✔✔✔Class C What level of chemical PPE has limits of no chemical protection? - ✔✔✔Class D
What does a MC 312 (corrosive liquids) tank look like? - ✔✔✔ What does a MC 331 (high pressure) tank look like? - ✔✔✔ What does a MC 338 (cryogenic liquid) tank look like? - ✔✔✔ What does a dry bulk cargo tank look like? - ✔✔✔ What does a compressed gas tubes trailer look like? - ✔✔✔ What does a non pressure intermodal tank look like? - ✔✔✔ What does a pressurized intermodal tank look like? - ✔✔✔ What does a cryogenic intermodal tank look like? - ✔✔✔ What are Class 1 placards used for? - ✔✔✔Explosives What color are Explosive placards? - ✔✔✔Orange What are Class 2 placards used for? - ✔✔✔Compressed gasses What color are Non Flammable placards? - ✔✔✔Green What color are Flammable and Combustible placards? - ✔✔✔Red
What color are Toxic placards? - ✔✔✔White What color are Oxygen related placards? - ✔✔✔Yellow What color are Inhalation Hazard placards? - ✔✔✔White with a skull What are Class 3 placards used for? - ✔✔✔Flammable and Combustible liquids What are Class 4 placards used for? - ✔✔✔Flammable Solids What are Class 5 placards used for? - ✔✔✔Oxidizers What are Class 6 placards used for? - ✔✔✔Poisons What are Class 7 placards used for? - ✔✔✔Radioactives What are Class 8 placards used for? - ✔✔✔Corrosives What type of shipping uses a Bill of Lading and is in the Cab or with the driver?
- ✔✔✔Highway What type of shipping uses a Waybill and is with the Engineer or Conductor? - ✔✔✔Rail What type of shipping uses a Dangerous Cargo Manifest? - ✔✔✔Water
What is the procedure that uses a tool to measure levels in the atmosphere, and helps determine presence of and or concentration of hazardous materials?
- ✔✔✔Monitoring What is the procedure that gathers a small amount of a product to be sent off and tested, and operations level personnel are allowed to assist in this, but not allowed to actually perform the act? - ✔✔✔Sampling What monitoring is used to identify the presence of a hazardous material? - ✔✔✔Reconnaissance Monitoring What monitoring is used to identify the different characteristics and changing conditions of a hazardous material? - ✔✔✔Operational Monitoring In monitoring what holds the number one priority to detect? - ✔✔✔Radioactivity In monitoring what holds the number two priority to detect? - ✔✔✔Corrosive Vapors In monitoring what holds the number three priority to detect? - ✔✔✔Oxygen levels In monitoring what holds the number four priority to detect? - ✔✔✔Combustibility/Flammibility In monitoring what holds the number five priority to detect? - ✔✔✔Toxicity
In monitoring what holds the number six priority to detect? - ✔✔✔Pathogenicity What 4 different gas channels does a 4 gas meter detect? - ✔✔✔CO, H2S, O2, LEL In radioactivity, uR/h is measured in what? - ✔✔✔micro, millionth scale In radioactivity, mR/h is measured in what? - ✔✔✔milli, thousandth scale In radioactivity, R/h is measured in what? - ✔✔✔whole numbers What is keeping a material, once released, in a defined or local area? - ✔✔✔Confinement Who can perform Confinement? - ✔✔✔Operation level responders and above Who can perform Containment? - ✔✔✔Technician level responders What is the process by which one substance, such as a liquid, combines with another substance, such as a solid, by becoming part of that substance? - ✔✔✔Absorption What is the use of a barrier to confine movement of a material? - ✔✔✔Damming/Diking What is adding water or another substance to weaken the strength or concentration of a hazardous material? - ✔✔✔Dilution
In the acronym for types of harm (TRACEM), what does the A stand for? - ✔✔✔Asphyxiation In the acronym for types of harm (TRACEM), what does the C stand for? - ✔✔✔Chemical In the acronym for types of harm (TRACEM), what does the E stand for? - ✔✔✔Etiological In the acronym for types of harm (TRACEM), what does the M stand for? - ✔✔✔Mechanical In exposure time frames, short term means what? - ✔✔✔Minutes to hours In exposure time frames, medium term means what? - ✔✔✔Days, weeks, months In exposure time frames, long term means what? - ✔✔✔Years or generations Date, Time, Exact location, Present Incident Status, and History of Incident are all documented during which stage of a Hazardous materials incident? - ✔✔✔Initial Size Up What are the types of stress that may be causing a container to release its contents? - ✔✔✔Thermal, Chemical, Mechanical What class of foam is used as a wetting agent and is typically used in woodland firefighting? - ✔✔✔Class A foams
What class of foam is broken into the two groups; non polar solvents, and polar solvents? - ✔✔✔Class B foams What type of foam is manufactured for specific products, typically acids, where traditional foam won't work? - ✔✔✔Specialty foams What type of foam breakdown and encapsulate products, but are not typically recommended because the chemical reaction can create another Hazmat issue? - ✔✔✔Emulsifiers In Class B Foams, which foam is sticky, heat strengthens the foam bubbles, and is only suitable for non polar hydrocarbons? - ✔✔✔Protein Foam In Class B Foams, which foam is made by mixing protein agents with fluorinated surfactants, sheds fuel (subsurface injections), has good water retention, is compatible with most dry chemicals, and has superior sealing power? - ✔✔✔Fluoroprotein Foam In Class B Foams, which foam is based non fluoroprotein tech and aqueous film forming capabilities, can be used for subsurface injection, incorporates fast knockdown and long lasting resistance, and is compatible with most dry chemicals? - ✔✔✔Film Forming Fluoroprotein Foam (FFFP) In Class B Foams, which foam floats in very thin layers over liquid which spreads quickly over flammable fuels, water drainage form bubble slides out of foam mass, knockdown is two to four times greater than protein based foams, and is self healing? - ✔✔✔Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF)
