Tcfp Hazmat Awareness Hazmat Ops Certification Evaluation Questions And Solutions Study Guide

TCFP HAZMAT AWARENESS HAZMAT OPS
CERTIFICATION EVALUATION QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS STUDY GUIDE

●● 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


●● What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you have
non-intervention approach, offensive approach, and defensive approach?
Answer: Mitigate


●● 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


●● In what NFPA/EPA level of response can the incident be controlled
by the initial responding units?
Answer: Level 1


●● 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