HAZMAT OPS/AWARENESS FINAL
EXAM
1. What provides delegation of details for implementation to a specific
federal or state agency? - ANSWER-Laws
2. What is a method for providing guidelines for compliance with the law?
- ANSWER-Regulation
3. NFPA creates voluntary consensus ______ - ANSWER-Standards
4. What establishes a single comprehensive national incident
management system (NIMS) and Presidential Policy Directives? -
ANSWER-Homeland Security Presidential Directives
5. 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
6. What law regulates labeling, shipping, and packing of hazardous
materials? - ANSWER-Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (1974)
7. What law created a manifest tracking system, and established permit
system for treatment, storage, and disposal? - ANSWER-Resource
Conservation Recovery Act (1976)
8. 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)
,9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. What NFPA standard covers competencies for first responders
dealing with Hazmat operations? - ANSWER-NFPA 472
13. 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)
14. What is the 5 step process for hazardous materials incidents? -
ANSWER-Isolate, Identify, Notify, Mitigate, Terminate
15. 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
, 16. 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
17. 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
18. What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you
have non-intervention approach, offensive approach, and defensive
approach? - ANSWER-Mitigate
19. What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you
debrief, document, do medical evaluations, recover costs, replace
equipment, and critique? - ANSWER-Terminate
20. In what NFPA/EPA level of response can the incident be controlled
by the initial responding units? - ANSWER-Level 1
21. In what NFPA/EPA level of response there is moderate incident
that encompasses a greater potential threat to the surrounding area or
community? Could possibly require evacuation. - ANSWER-Level 2
22. In what NFPA/EPA level of response there is a major incident with
extreme hazards over large geographic zones. These incidents typically
require intervention of multiple resource agencies. - ANSWER-Level 3
23. 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? - ANSWER-BLEVE
EXAM
1. What provides delegation of details for implementation to a specific
federal or state agency? - ANSWER-Laws
2. What is a method for providing guidelines for compliance with the law?
- ANSWER-Regulation
3. NFPA creates voluntary consensus ______ - ANSWER-Standards
4. What establishes a single comprehensive national incident
management system (NIMS) and Presidential Policy Directives? -
ANSWER-Homeland Security Presidential Directives
5. 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
6. What law regulates labeling, shipping, and packing of hazardous
materials? - ANSWER-Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (1974)
7. What law created a manifest tracking system, and established permit
system for treatment, storage, and disposal? - ANSWER-Resource
Conservation Recovery Act (1976)
8. 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)
,9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. What NFPA standard covers competencies for first responders
dealing with Hazmat operations? - ANSWER-NFPA 472
13. 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)
14. What is the 5 step process for hazardous materials incidents? -
ANSWER-Isolate, Identify, Notify, Mitigate, Terminate
15. 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
, 16. 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
17. 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
18. What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you
have non-intervention approach, offensive approach, and defensive
approach? - ANSWER-Mitigate
19. What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you
debrief, document, do medical evaluations, recover costs, replace
equipment, and critique? - ANSWER-Terminate
20. In what NFPA/EPA level of response can the incident be controlled
by the initial responding units? - ANSWER-Level 1
21. In what NFPA/EPA level of response there is moderate incident
that encompasses a greater potential threat to the surrounding area or
community? Could possibly require evacuation. - ANSWER-Level 2
22. In what NFPA/EPA level of response there is a major incident with
extreme hazards over large geographic zones. These incidents typically
require intervention of multiple resource agencies. - ANSWER-Level 3
23. 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? - ANSWER-BLEVE
