FULL REVISION PACK QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
◉ What is a method for providing guidelines for compliance with
the law? Answer: Regulation
◉ NFPA creates voluntary consensus ______ Answer: Standards
◉ What establishes a single comprehensive national incident
management system (NIMS) and Presidential Policy Directives?
Answer: 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? Answer: Presidential Policy
Directives
◉ What law regulates labeling, shipping, and packing of hazardous
materials? Answer: Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (1974)
,◉ What law created a manifest tracking system, and established
permit system for treatment, storage, and disposal? Answer:
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? Answer: 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)? Answer:
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? Answer:
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? Answer: Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization
Act (SARA) Title 3
◉ What NFPA standard covers competencies for first responders
dealing with Hazmat operations? Answer: 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?
Answer: Standard Operation Guideline (SOG)
◉ What is the 5 step process for hazardous materials incidents?
Answer: Isolate, Identify, Notify, Mitigate, Terminate
◉ What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you
deny access, control egress, stage incoming companies, and establish
hazard zones after gathering information? Answer: Isolate
◉ What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you
find the occupancy and location, container shapes and sizes,
markings and colors, placards and labels, shipping papers/MSDS,
monitoring/senses, and find the principle responsible party?
Answer: Identify
◉ What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you
get more personnel, get more equipment, and get outside agencies
to come help? Answer: Notify