HAZMAT FLORIDA COMPREHENSIVE ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Cryogenic - ✔✔Capacity: 500 to 20,000 gallons of product
Working Pressure: Varying Pressures, but some can be very high (over 300 psi)
✔✔Bags - ✔✔can be many sizes and carry many different products, from food to
poisons. Cannot carry gases, liquids, or radioactives.
✔✔Carboys - ✔✔- will not exceed 20 gallons; but are USUALLY one gallon.
-Hazard Classes: 6, 8
✔✔Cylinders - ✔✔Usually metal and can hold a variety of materials but usually hold
chemicals or gasses under pressure.
- A relief valve or frangible disc provides protection in case of fire or overpressure.
Capacity: will not exceed 1000 pounds of water capacity.
Working Pressure: Range from a few pound per square inch to several thousand
pounds per square inch.
✔✔Drums - ✔✔Drums come in a variety of sizes and can be made up of metal,
fiberboard, or plastic. Open head drums have removable tops, no noticeable openings
and are designed for solids. Closed head drums have non-removable top, noticeable
openings, and designed for liquids.
Capacity:
o Over pack drums have an 85-
gallon capacity
,✔✔Dewar Flasks - ✔✔Dewar flasks are containers within a container. INSULATING
material and the use of a VACUUM SPACE keep the CRYOGENIC MATERIAL cooled
and in a liquid state.
Capacity:
o 1 to 1000 liters
Material Examples:
o liquid argon, liquid nitrogen, and liquid
oxygen
* Transportation method for cryogenic materials
✔✔BLEVE - ✔✔Boiling Liquid Vapor Expanding Explosion
✔✔Intermediate Bulk Containers - ✔✔IBC
✔✔Flexible Containers (Super Sacks) - ✔✔ALSO KNOWN AS "BULK BAG"
Capacity:
o Standard sizes range from 15 to 85 cubic feet.
o Weight varies from 500 to 5,000 lbs.
Material Examples:
o Used to store and transport various items such as feed to powder chemicals.
✔✔Rigid Containers (Polypropylene and Steel Tanks [Composite IBC]) - ✔✔Capacity:
o Standard sizes range from 300 to 500 gallons and generally will not exceed 7,700 lbs.
Other/Characteristics:
o A polypropylene tank surrounded by a rigid metal frame with a fill port on top and a
discharge port on the bottom.
✔✔Ton Container - ✔✔Capacity: The name comes from the capability to transport one
ton of CHLORINE.
Characteristics:
o Cylindrical pressure tanks approximately 3 ft in
diameter and 8 ft long with convex or concave
heads.
o All fittings are in the heads, including fusible plugs (prevents BLEVE) and/or spring-
loaded safety relief valves.
✔✔Fusible Plugs - ✔✔Prevents rupture if container is exposed to high temps, like a fire.
,Has a metal core that is designed to melt at a temperature between 158 Degrees F and
165 Degrees F
✔✔Type A - ✔✔Capacity:
o Will not exceed 3,000 lbs
o This packaging must be able to with stand
heavy rain equal to 2 inches per hr, free
dropping from 4 ft, and stacking test equal
to the weight of the package for at least 24
hrs. Penetration by a dropped weight more
than 1.5 inches diameter, weighing 13.2 lbs
dropped from 40 inches (MUST WITHSTAND NORMAL DELIVERY INCIDENTS).
Hazard Classes:
o7
Intended for materials with a higher level of
radiation then allowed in excepted or industrial
packages.
Often with an inner containment vessel made of
glass, plastic, or metal surrounded by packing
material of polyethylene, rubber, vermiculite, or
wood.
✔✔Type B - ✔✔Protects materials with higher radioactivity levels,
including spent nuclear fuel.
steel casks that can weigh more than 125 tons.
This packaging must be able to withstand 30 ft drop so that the package's weakest point
is hit.
✔✔Type C - ✔✔Most Hazardous Amount of Radiation
Life Threatening
✔✔Industrial - ✔✔*GREEN CONNEX"
Intended for materials with a LOW level of radiation that poses a limited hazard to the
public and environment.
The radioactive material may be LIQUID or SOLIDIFIED in such materials as concrete
or glass.
, Industrial packages are not identified as such by PACKAGE, MARKINGS or on
SHIPPING PAPERS.
✔✔Excepted - ✔✔Extremely Low levels of Radiation
Packaging and transportation requirements should be of reasonable strength
Packaging ranges from fiberboard box to sturdier wooden or steel crate
Packages are not identified as such by package markings or on shipping papers.
✔✔EPA Registration Number - ✔✔Manufacturer - Product - Distributer
✔✔Databases - ✔✔CAMEO, CHRIS, RTECS, OHM-TADS
✔✔Maps and Diagrams - ✔✔Advantages: Gives someone who is not familiar with the
incident location a fair representation of manmade structures and terrain.
Disadvantages: May not be up to date and may be inaccurate.
✔✔Monitoring Equipment - ✔✔Advantages: provides responders with critical
information on the hazards present at a hazardous materials incident site.
Disadvantages: Never rely on one piece of monitoring equipment. Use as many pieces
of monitoring equipment necessary to effectively identify the hazards present.
✔✔Reference Manuals - ✔✔Advantages: Reference manuals available to responders
produced by various individuals, corporations, and federal agencies.
Disadvantages: Contain slightly different viewpoints. Reference manuals emphasize
information a little differently from one another.
✔✔Technical Information Centers - ✔✔Advantages: Provides responder with valuable
information during hazardous materials incidents.
ex) CHEMTREC
Disadvantages: May provide conflicting information.
*Listings should be in LERP SOP.
✔✔Technical Information Specialists - ✔✔Network of people with technical knowledge.
Advantages: Expertise and education
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Cryogenic - ✔✔Capacity: 500 to 20,000 gallons of product
Working Pressure: Varying Pressures, but some can be very high (over 300 psi)
✔✔Bags - ✔✔can be many sizes and carry many different products, from food to
poisons. Cannot carry gases, liquids, or radioactives.
✔✔Carboys - ✔✔- will not exceed 20 gallons; but are USUALLY one gallon.
-Hazard Classes: 6, 8
✔✔Cylinders - ✔✔Usually metal and can hold a variety of materials but usually hold
chemicals or gasses under pressure.
- A relief valve or frangible disc provides protection in case of fire or overpressure.
Capacity: will not exceed 1000 pounds of water capacity.
Working Pressure: Range from a few pound per square inch to several thousand
pounds per square inch.
✔✔Drums - ✔✔Drums come in a variety of sizes and can be made up of metal,
fiberboard, or plastic. Open head drums have removable tops, no noticeable openings
and are designed for solids. Closed head drums have non-removable top, noticeable
openings, and designed for liquids.
Capacity:
o Over pack drums have an 85-
gallon capacity
,✔✔Dewar Flasks - ✔✔Dewar flasks are containers within a container. INSULATING
material and the use of a VACUUM SPACE keep the CRYOGENIC MATERIAL cooled
and in a liquid state.
Capacity:
o 1 to 1000 liters
Material Examples:
o liquid argon, liquid nitrogen, and liquid
oxygen
* Transportation method for cryogenic materials
✔✔BLEVE - ✔✔Boiling Liquid Vapor Expanding Explosion
✔✔Intermediate Bulk Containers - ✔✔IBC
✔✔Flexible Containers (Super Sacks) - ✔✔ALSO KNOWN AS "BULK BAG"
Capacity:
o Standard sizes range from 15 to 85 cubic feet.
o Weight varies from 500 to 5,000 lbs.
Material Examples:
o Used to store and transport various items such as feed to powder chemicals.
✔✔Rigid Containers (Polypropylene and Steel Tanks [Composite IBC]) - ✔✔Capacity:
o Standard sizes range from 300 to 500 gallons and generally will not exceed 7,700 lbs.
Other/Characteristics:
o A polypropylene tank surrounded by a rigid metal frame with a fill port on top and a
discharge port on the bottom.
✔✔Ton Container - ✔✔Capacity: The name comes from the capability to transport one
ton of CHLORINE.
Characteristics:
o Cylindrical pressure tanks approximately 3 ft in
diameter and 8 ft long with convex or concave
heads.
o All fittings are in the heads, including fusible plugs (prevents BLEVE) and/or spring-
loaded safety relief valves.
✔✔Fusible Plugs - ✔✔Prevents rupture if container is exposed to high temps, like a fire.
,Has a metal core that is designed to melt at a temperature between 158 Degrees F and
165 Degrees F
✔✔Type A - ✔✔Capacity:
o Will not exceed 3,000 lbs
o This packaging must be able to with stand
heavy rain equal to 2 inches per hr, free
dropping from 4 ft, and stacking test equal
to the weight of the package for at least 24
hrs. Penetration by a dropped weight more
than 1.5 inches diameter, weighing 13.2 lbs
dropped from 40 inches (MUST WITHSTAND NORMAL DELIVERY INCIDENTS).
Hazard Classes:
o7
Intended for materials with a higher level of
radiation then allowed in excepted or industrial
packages.
Often with an inner containment vessel made of
glass, plastic, or metal surrounded by packing
material of polyethylene, rubber, vermiculite, or
wood.
✔✔Type B - ✔✔Protects materials with higher radioactivity levels,
including spent nuclear fuel.
steel casks that can weigh more than 125 tons.
This packaging must be able to withstand 30 ft drop so that the package's weakest point
is hit.
✔✔Type C - ✔✔Most Hazardous Amount of Radiation
Life Threatening
✔✔Industrial - ✔✔*GREEN CONNEX"
Intended for materials with a LOW level of radiation that poses a limited hazard to the
public and environment.
The radioactive material may be LIQUID or SOLIDIFIED in such materials as concrete
or glass.
, Industrial packages are not identified as such by PACKAGE, MARKINGS or on
SHIPPING PAPERS.
✔✔Excepted - ✔✔Extremely Low levels of Radiation
Packaging and transportation requirements should be of reasonable strength
Packaging ranges from fiberboard box to sturdier wooden or steel crate
Packages are not identified as such by package markings or on shipping papers.
✔✔EPA Registration Number - ✔✔Manufacturer - Product - Distributer
✔✔Databases - ✔✔CAMEO, CHRIS, RTECS, OHM-TADS
✔✔Maps and Diagrams - ✔✔Advantages: Gives someone who is not familiar with the
incident location a fair representation of manmade structures and terrain.
Disadvantages: May not be up to date and may be inaccurate.
✔✔Monitoring Equipment - ✔✔Advantages: provides responders with critical
information on the hazards present at a hazardous materials incident site.
Disadvantages: Never rely on one piece of monitoring equipment. Use as many pieces
of monitoring equipment necessary to effectively identify the hazards present.
✔✔Reference Manuals - ✔✔Advantages: Reference manuals available to responders
produced by various individuals, corporations, and federal agencies.
Disadvantages: Contain slightly different viewpoints. Reference manuals emphasize
information a little differently from one another.
✔✔Technical Information Centers - ✔✔Advantages: Provides responder with valuable
information during hazardous materials incidents.
ex) CHEMTREC
Disadvantages: May provide conflicting information.
*Listings should be in LERP SOP.
✔✔Technical Information Specialists - ✔✔Network of people with technical knowledge.
Advantages: Expertise and education
