Hazmat Awareness,, Questions with Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ)
Answer: An organization, office, or individual responsible for enforcing the requirements of a code or
standard, or for approving equipment, materials, an installation, or a procedure. (NFPA 470)
Question 2: Awareness level personnel
Answer: Personnel who, in the course of their normal duties, could encounter an emergency involving
hazardous materials/weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and who are expected to recognize the presence
of the hazardous materials/WMD, protect themselves, call for trained personnel, and secure the scene.
(NFPA 470)
Question 3: Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Answer: A collection of permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and
agencies of the U.S. federal government. Its 50 titles represent broad areas of interest that are governed by
federal regulation. Each volume is updated annually.
Question 4: Defensive Mode
Answer: The mode of operation in which direct contact with the material or container is avoided and
responders' efforts focus on controlling or limiting the effects of the release.
Question 5: Department of Transportation (DOT)
Answer: U.S. federal government body with primary responsibility for transportation safety regulations for
many hazardous materials.
Question 6: Emergency Planning & Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA)
Answer: Legislation that requires a business that handles chemicals to report on those chemicals' type,
quantity, and storage methods to the fire department and the local emergency planning committee.
Question 7: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Answer: The US federal agency that ensures safe manufacturing, use, transportation, and disposal of
hazardous substances.
Question 8: Hazardous Material
Answer: matter (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy that when released is capable of creating harm to people, the
environment, and property, including weapons of mass destruction (WMD). (NFPA 470)
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, Question 9: Hazardous materials specialist
Answer: Defined in the OSHA HAZWOPER regulation only, a hazardous materials specialist who responds
with, and provides support to, hazardous materials technicians and acts as the incident-site liaison with
federal, state, local, and other government authorities regarding site activities.
Question 10: Hazardous materials technician
Answer: A person who responds to hazardous materials/weapons of mass destruction (WMD) incidents
using a risk-based response process by which they analyze the problem at hand, select applicable
decontamination procedures, and control a release while using specialized protective clothing and control
equipment. (NFPA 470)
Question 11: Hazardous waste
Answer: a substance that remains after a process or manufacturing plant has used some of the material and
the substance is no longer pure.
Question 12: HAZWOPER (HAZardous Waste OPerations and Emergency Response)
Answer: the federal OSHA regulation that governs hazardous materials waste site and response training
Question 13: Incident Commander (IC)
Answer: The individual who has overall command of the incident in the field. (NFPA 470)
Question 14: Job performance requirement (JPR)
Answer: A written statement that describes a specific job task, list the items necessary to complete the task,
and defines measurable or observable outcomes and evaluation areas for the specific task.
Question 15: Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC)
Answer: A committee comprising members of industry, transportation, the public at large, media, and fire
and police agencies that gathers and disseminates information on hazardous materials stored in the
community and ensures that there are adequate local resources to respond to a chemical event in the
community.
Question 16: National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
Answer: The U.S. organization that develops and maintains nationally recognized, minimum, consensus
standards on many areas of fire safety and on hazardous materials.
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Question 1: Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ)
Answer: An organization, office, or individual responsible for enforcing the requirements of a code or
standard, or for approving equipment, materials, an installation, or a procedure. (NFPA 470)
Question 2: Awareness level personnel
Answer: Personnel who, in the course of their normal duties, could encounter an emergency involving
hazardous materials/weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and who are expected to recognize the presence
of the hazardous materials/WMD, protect themselves, call for trained personnel, and secure the scene.
(NFPA 470)
Question 3: Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Answer: A collection of permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and
agencies of the U.S. federal government. Its 50 titles represent broad areas of interest that are governed by
federal regulation. Each volume is updated annually.
Question 4: Defensive Mode
Answer: The mode of operation in which direct contact with the material or container is avoided and
responders' efforts focus on controlling or limiting the effects of the release.
Question 5: Department of Transportation (DOT)
Answer: U.S. federal government body with primary responsibility for transportation safety regulations for
many hazardous materials.
Question 6: Emergency Planning & Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA)
Answer: Legislation that requires a business that handles chemicals to report on those chemicals' type,
quantity, and storage methods to the fire department and the local emergency planning committee.
Question 7: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Answer: The US federal agency that ensures safe manufacturing, use, transportation, and disposal of
hazardous substances.
Question 8: Hazardous Material
Answer: matter (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy that when released is capable of creating harm to people, the
environment, and property, including weapons of mass destruction (WMD). (NFPA 470)
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, Question 9: Hazardous materials specialist
Answer: Defined in the OSHA HAZWOPER regulation only, a hazardous materials specialist who responds
with, and provides support to, hazardous materials technicians and acts as the incident-site liaison with
federal, state, local, and other government authorities regarding site activities.
Question 10: Hazardous materials technician
Answer: A person who responds to hazardous materials/weapons of mass destruction (WMD) incidents
using a risk-based response process by which they analyze the problem at hand, select applicable
decontamination procedures, and control a release while using specialized protective clothing and control
equipment. (NFPA 470)
Question 11: Hazardous waste
Answer: a substance that remains after a process or manufacturing plant has used some of the material and
the substance is no longer pure.
Question 12: HAZWOPER (HAZardous Waste OPerations and Emergency Response)
Answer: the federal OSHA regulation that governs hazardous materials waste site and response training
Question 13: Incident Commander (IC)
Answer: The individual who has overall command of the incident in the field. (NFPA 470)
Question 14: Job performance requirement (JPR)
Answer: A written statement that describes a specific job task, list the items necessary to complete the task,
and defines measurable or observable outcomes and evaluation areas for the specific task.
Question 15: Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC)
Answer: A committee comprising members of industry, transportation, the public at large, media, and fire
and police agencies that gathers and disseminates information on hazardous materials stored in the
community and ensures that there are adequate local resources to respond to a chemical event in the
community.
Question 16: National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
Answer: The U.S. organization that develops and maintains nationally recognized, minimum, consensus
standards on many areas of fire safety and on hazardous materials.
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