Hazmat Ops/Awareness Final Exam 2025
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What provides delegation of details for implementation to a specific federal or state agency? - ✔✔Laws
What is a method for providing guidelines for compliance with the law? - ✔✔Regulation
NFPA creates voluntary consensus ______ - ✔✔Standards
What establishes a single comprehensive national incident management system (NIMS) and Presidential
Policy Directives? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔Presidential Policy Directives
What law regulates labeling, shipping, and packing of hazardous materials? - ✔✔Hazardous Materials
Transportation Act (1974)
What law created a manifest tracking system, and established permit system for treatment, storage, and
disposal? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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)? - ✔✔Superfund
Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title 1
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,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? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title 3
What NFPA standard covers competencies for first responders dealing with Hazmat operations? -
✔✔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? - ✔✔Standard
Operation Guideline (SOG)
What is the 5 step process for hazardous materials incidents? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔Notify
What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you have non-intervention approach,
offensive approach, and defensive approach? - ✔✔Mitigate
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, What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you debrief, document, do medical
evaluations, recover costs, replace equipment, and critique? - ✔✔Terminate
In what NFPA/EPA level of response can the incident be controlled by the initial responding units? -
✔✔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. - ✔✔Level 2
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. - ✔✔Level
3
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? - ✔✔BLEVE
What is the temperature when a liquid changes its phase into a vapor or gas? - ✔✔Boiling point
What is the ability of a chemical to undergo an alteration in its chemical make-up, usually accompanied
by a release of some form of energy? - ✔✔Chemical reactivity
What is the combined process of emission, transmission, and absorption of energy traveling by
electromagnetic wave propagation between a region of higher temperature and a region of lower
temperature? - ✔✔Radiation
What is an expression of a fuel/air mixture, defined by upper and lower limits, that reflects an amount of
flammable vapor mixed with a given volume of air? - ✔✔Flammable Range
What is the minimum temperature at which a liquid or a solid releases sufficient vapor to form an
ignitable mixture with air? - ✔✔Flash point
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Questions and Answers | Already Passed
What provides delegation of details for implementation to a specific federal or state agency? - ✔✔Laws
What is a method for providing guidelines for compliance with the law? - ✔✔Regulation
NFPA creates voluntary consensus ______ - ✔✔Standards
What establishes a single comprehensive national incident management system (NIMS) and Presidential
Policy Directives? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔Presidential Policy Directives
What law regulates labeling, shipping, and packing of hazardous materials? - ✔✔Hazardous Materials
Transportation Act (1974)
What law created a manifest tracking system, and established permit system for treatment, storage, and
disposal? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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)? - ✔✔Superfund
Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title 1
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,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? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title 3
What NFPA standard covers competencies for first responders dealing with Hazmat operations? -
✔✔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? - ✔✔Standard
Operation Guideline (SOG)
What is the 5 step process for hazardous materials incidents? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔Notify
What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you have non-intervention approach,
offensive approach, and defensive approach? - ✔✔Mitigate
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, What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you debrief, document, do medical
evaluations, recover costs, replace equipment, and critique? - ✔✔Terminate
In what NFPA/EPA level of response can the incident be controlled by the initial responding units? -
✔✔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. - ✔✔Level 2
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. - ✔✔Level
3
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? - ✔✔BLEVE
What is the temperature when a liquid changes its phase into a vapor or gas? - ✔✔Boiling point
What is the ability of a chemical to undergo an alteration in its chemical make-up, usually accompanied
by a release of some form of energy? - ✔✔Chemical reactivity
What is the combined process of emission, transmission, and absorption of energy traveling by
electromagnetic wave propagation between a region of higher temperature and a region of lower
temperature? - ✔✔Radiation
What is an expression of a fuel/air mixture, defined by upper and lower limits, that reflects an amount of
flammable vapor mixed with a given volume of air? - ✔✔Flammable Range
What is the minimum temperature at which a liquid or a solid releases sufficient vapor to form an
ignitable mixture with air? - ✔✔Flash point
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