HAZMAT FIRST RESPONDER COMPREHENSIVE
ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Define First Responder at the "Awareness" level - ✔✔One likely to witness/discover
a hazmat release and can initiate notifying authorities and take no further action.
✔✔Define First Responder at the "Operations" level - ✔✔One who responds to hazmat
release to protect nearby persons, environment or property (trained to act in a defensive
fashion without trying to actually stop the release as could a "Technician")
✔✔Hazmat Tactical Operations Acronym - ✔✔SIN CIA PCP DDD
✔✔Hazmat Tactical Operations - SIN - ✔✔(S) - Safety
(I) - Isolation & Deny Entry
(N) - Notifications
✔✔Hazmat Tactical Operations - CIA - ✔✔(C) - Command/Management
(I) - Identification & Hazard Assessment
(A) - Action Planning
✔✔Hazmat Tactical Operations - PCP - ✔✔(P) - Protective Equipment
(C) - Containment & Control
(P) - Protective Actions
✔✔Hazmat Tactical Operations - DDD - ✔✔(D) - Decontamination & Cleanup
(D) - Disposal
(D) - Documentation
✔✔What is IDHA? - ✔✔Identification & Hazard Assassment
✔✔What is IC? - ✔✔Incident Commander
, ✔✔What is NFPA 704 marking? - ✔✔Placard with four identifications.
9 O'clock - Health Hazard (blue)
12 O'clock - Flammability (red)
3 O'clock - Reactivity (yellow)
6 O'clock - Special (white)
✔✔Three requirements of "safe approach" - ✔✔Upwind, upgrade, upstream
✔✔Ways hazmats can kill you? - ✔✔1. Toxicity, 2. Radioactivity, 3. Asphyxiation, 4.
Explosion, 5. Flammability, 6. Corrosion
✔✔What is MSDS? - ✔✔Material Safety Data Sheet
✔✔True or False: Approach hazmats from a safe direction and distance? - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔What is a "perimeter"? - ✔✔Outside security line around all control lines. Exclusion
Zone, Contamination Reduction Zone, and Support Zone are all within the Perimeter.
✔✔What is an "exclusion/hot zone"? - ✔✔Area of isolation (only responders with a
specific task & proper level of protective clothing in this zone).
✔✔What is an "contamination reduction zone/warm zone"? - ✔✔Used to control areas
like Safe Refuge and Decontamination (may use a reduced protective clothing level in
this zone).
✔✔What is a "support/cold zone"? - ✔✔Safe area for Command Post, Media, medical
aid, etc. (No protective clothing or SCBA required).
✔✔Mandatory hazmat notifications? - ✔✔1. Local dispatch (Local 911).
2. CUPA/Local Administering Agency
3. State Warning Center
4. National Response Center
✔✔Agency resources can be identified being in what 3 status conditions? -
✔✔Assigned, Available, Out of Service
✔✔What is "Acute" exposure? - ✔✔One time, limited or short term exposure.
✔✔What is "Chronic" exposure? - ✔✔Continuous, repeated or long term exposure.
✔✔Describe "Acute" effects? - ✔✔Range from no immediate effects to death within
minutes. Acute effects may not manifest themselves immediately. Many substances will
cause problems that won't show up for hours or even days after exposure.
ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Define First Responder at the "Awareness" level - ✔✔One likely to witness/discover
a hazmat release and can initiate notifying authorities and take no further action.
✔✔Define First Responder at the "Operations" level - ✔✔One who responds to hazmat
release to protect nearby persons, environment or property (trained to act in a defensive
fashion without trying to actually stop the release as could a "Technician")
✔✔Hazmat Tactical Operations Acronym - ✔✔SIN CIA PCP DDD
✔✔Hazmat Tactical Operations - SIN - ✔✔(S) - Safety
(I) - Isolation & Deny Entry
(N) - Notifications
✔✔Hazmat Tactical Operations - CIA - ✔✔(C) - Command/Management
(I) - Identification & Hazard Assessment
(A) - Action Planning
✔✔Hazmat Tactical Operations - PCP - ✔✔(P) - Protective Equipment
(C) - Containment & Control
(P) - Protective Actions
✔✔Hazmat Tactical Operations - DDD - ✔✔(D) - Decontamination & Cleanup
(D) - Disposal
(D) - Documentation
✔✔What is IDHA? - ✔✔Identification & Hazard Assassment
✔✔What is IC? - ✔✔Incident Commander
, ✔✔What is NFPA 704 marking? - ✔✔Placard with four identifications.
9 O'clock - Health Hazard (blue)
12 O'clock - Flammability (red)
3 O'clock - Reactivity (yellow)
6 O'clock - Special (white)
✔✔Three requirements of "safe approach" - ✔✔Upwind, upgrade, upstream
✔✔Ways hazmats can kill you? - ✔✔1. Toxicity, 2. Radioactivity, 3. Asphyxiation, 4.
Explosion, 5. Flammability, 6. Corrosion
✔✔What is MSDS? - ✔✔Material Safety Data Sheet
✔✔True or False: Approach hazmats from a safe direction and distance? - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔What is a "perimeter"? - ✔✔Outside security line around all control lines. Exclusion
Zone, Contamination Reduction Zone, and Support Zone are all within the Perimeter.
✔✔What is an "exclusion/hot zone"? - ✔✔Area of isolation (only responders with a
specific task & proper level of protective clothing in this zone).
✔✔What is an "contamination reduction zone/warm zone"? - ✔✔Used to control areas
like Safe Refuge and Decontamination (may use a reduced protective clothing level in
this zone).
✔✔What is a "support/cold zone"? - ✔✔Safe area for Command Post, Media, medical
aid, etc. (No protective clothing or SCBA required).
✔✔Mandatory hazmat notifications? - ✔✔1. Local dispatch (Local 911).
2. CUPA/Local Administering Agency
3. State Warning Center
4. National Response Center
✔✔Agency resources can be identified being in what 3 status conditions? -
✔✔Assigned, Available, Out of Service
✔✔What is "Acute" exposure? - ✔✔One time, limited or short term exposure.
✔✔What is "Chronic" exposure? - ✔✔Continuous, repeated or long term exposure.
✔✔Describe "Acute" effects? - ✔✔Range from no immediate effects to death within
minutes. Acute effects may not manifest themselves immediately. Many substances will
cause problems that won't show up for hours or even days after exposure.
