HAZMAT OPERATIONS COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◉ Awareness level personnel
Answer: People who in their normal duties could encounter an
emergency involving HAZMAT/WMD and who are expected to
recognize the presence of these hazards, protect themselves, call
for trained personnel, and secure the area
◉ Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
Answer: A division of the American Chemical Society. Resource
provides HAZMAT responders with access to an enormous
collection of chemical substance information
◉ Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Answer: Permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the
executive departments and agencies of the U.S. federal
government. Updated annually and issued on a quarterly basis
◉ Department of Transportation (DOT)
Answer: The US government agency that publicizes and enforces
rules and regulations that relate to the transportation of HAZMAT
, ◉ Emergency Planning and 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 dept and local emergency planning committee
◉ Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG)
Answer: Preliminary action guide for first responders operating at
a HAZMAT incident in coordination with DOTs labels and placards
marking system.
◉ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Answer: 1970. Federal agency that ensures safe manufacturing,
use, transportation, and disposal of hazardous substances
◉ Hazardous material
Answer: Any substance or material that is capable of posing an
unreasonable risk to human health, safety, or the environment
when transported in commerce, used incorrectly, or not properly
contained or stored
◉ 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
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◉ Awareness level personnel
Answer: People who in their normal duties could encounter an
emergency involving HAZMAT/WMD and who are expected to
recognize the presence of these hazards, protect themselves, call
for trained personnel, and secure the area
◉ Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
Answer: A division of the American Chemical Society. Resource
provides HAZMAT responders with access to an enormous
collection of chemical substance information
◉ Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
Answer: Permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the
executive departments and agencies of the U.S. federal
government. Updated annually and issued on a quarterly basis
◉ Department of Transportation (DOT)
Answer: The US government agency that publicizes and enforces
rules and regulations that relate to the transportation of HAZMAT
, ◉ Emergency Planning and 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 dept and local emergency planning committee
◉ Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG)
Answer: Preliminary action guide for first responders operating at
a HAZMAT incident in coordination with DOTs labels and placards
marking system.
◉ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Answer: 1970. Federal agency that ensures safe manufacturing,
use, transportation, and disposal of hazardous substances
◉ Hazardous material
Answer: Any substance or material that is capable of posing an
unreasonable risk to human health, safety, or the environment
when transported in commerce, used incorrectly, or not properly
contained or stored
◉ 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
