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Hazmat Operations Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
What is an Operations Level Responder? Ans: Person who respond to
HazMat/WMD incidents for the purpose of implementing or supporting
actions to protect nearby persons, the environment, or property from the
effects. Are NOT used in offensive tactics, but on defensive.
What tasks will an operational level responder be expected to perform?
Ans: Analyze, plan, implement, evaluate
Analyze: to determine the scope and potential outcomes by surveying,
collecting info, predicting behavior
Plan: describing the response objective, options, emergency
decontamination procedure, developing a plan of action including safety
considerations
Implement: preservation of evidence, initiating an incident command
system.
Evaluate: by evaluation and communicating the status of the response.
The operations level responder would work under who? Ans: HazMat
Technician
Written guidance or stander operating procedure will state what? Ans:
The rules of engagement
Under What CFR is DOT? Ans: 49CFR170.199
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Under What CFR is OSHA? Ans: 29CFR 1910.1209
Under what CFR is EPA? Ans: 40CFR 311
What are the two primary types of containers? Ans: the ones used for
transport and those used for storage
What conditions need to be assessed for a thorough survey of the scene?
Ans: Topography
land use-commercial, residential
accessibility - roads, bridges, wooded areas
weather conditions
bodies of water
public exposure potential
over head and underground wires and pipe lines
storm and sewer drains
possible ignition sources
adjacent land use - rail lines, highways and airports
nature and extent of injuries
building information - floor drains and ventilation
Ways to verify information obtained from the Survey Hazardous Material
Incident Ans: ERG
contact Chemtrec
contact shippers
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where can you find additional references to obtain information already
received Ans: shipper/owner
electronic database
other references
incident involving criminal or terrorist activity Ans: Secondary events
intended to incapacitate or delay emergency responders
armed resistance
use of weapons
booby traps
secondary contamination from handling patients
possible indicators: vegetation discoloration, sudden onset of casualties,
unexplained vapors and odors
In the fire protection handbook, the information to be collected is divided
into six basic group Ans: material ID info
physical property
chemical property
physical hazards
health hazards
response information
What does collecting the information allows the operations level
responder? Ans: determine the defensive options that can be performed
safely, given the personnel and equipment available
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how are haz mat classified? Ans: According to their primary danger and
assigned standardized symbols to ID the class/division
Class 1 Ans: Explosive
Class 1 Major Hazard Ans: Explosion
Class 1 Definition Ans: any substance or article, including a device that
is designed to function by explosion or that by chemical reaction within
itself, is able to function by explosion
Division 1.1 Ans: Mass Explosion hazard - mass explosion is one that
affects almost the entire load instantly
example - black powder, dynamite, TNT
Division 1.2 Ans: Projection hazard - but not mass explosion
example - aerial flares, detonation cord, power device cartridges
Division 1.3 Ans: Fire hazard, minor blast hazard , minor projection
hazard, NO mass explosion
example - liquid fueled rocket motors, propellant explosive
Division 1.4 Ans: Minor explosion hazard (no more than 25 grams of
detonating material)
example - practice ammo, signal cartridges
Division 1.5 Ans: Very insensitive explosive with mass explosion hazard
- under normal conditions
example - prilled ammonium nitrate fertilizers, fuel oil mix
Division 1.6 Ans: Extremely insensitive no mass explosive hazard
Hazmat Operations Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
What is an Operations Level Responder? Ans: Person who respond to
HazMat/WMD incidents for the purpose of implementing or supporting
actions to protect nearby persons, the environment, or property from the
effects. Are NOT used in offensive tactics, but on defensive.
What tasks will an operational level responder be expected to perform?
Ans: Analyze, plan, implement, evaluate
Analyze: to determine the scope and potential outcomes by surveying,
collecting info, predicting behavior
Plan: describing the response objective, options, emergency
decontamination procedure, developing a plan of action including safety
considerations
Implement: preservation of evidence, initiating an incident command
system.
Evaluate: by evaluation and communicating the status of the response.
The operations level responder would work under who? Ans: HazMat
Technician
Written guidance or stander operating procedure will state what? Ans:
The rules of engagement
Under What CFR is DOT? Ans: 49CFR170.199
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Under What CFR is OSHA? Ans: 29CFR 1910.1209
Under what CFR is EPA? Ans: 40CFR 311
What are the two primary types of containers? Ans: the ones used for
transport and those used for storage
What conditions need to be assessed for a thorough survey of the scene?
Ans: Topography
land use-commercial, residential
accessibility - roads, bridges, wooded areas
weather conditions
bodies of water
public exposure potential
over head and underground wires and pipe lines
storm and sewer drains
possible ignition sources
adjacent land use - rail lines, highways and airports
nature and extent of injuries
building information - floor drains and ventilation
Ways to verify information obtained from the Survey Hazardous Material
Incident Ans: ERG
contact Chemtrec
contact shippers
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where can you find additional references to obtain information already
received Ans: shipper/owner
electronic database
other references
incident involving criminal or terrorist activity Ans: Secondary events
intended to incapacitate or delay emergency responders
armed resistance
use of weapons
booby traps
secondary contamination from handling patients
possible indicators: vegetation discoloration, sudden onset of casualties,
unexplained vapors and odors
In the fire protection handbook, the information to be collected is divided
into six basic group Ans: material ID info
physical property
chemical property
physical hazards
health hazards
response information
What does collecting the information allows the operations level
responder? Ans: determine the defensive options that can be performed
safely, given the personnel and equipment available
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how are haz mat classified? Ans: According to their primary danger and
assigned standardized symbols to ID the class/division
Class 1 Ans: Explosive
Class 1 Major Hazard Ans: Explosion
Class 1 Definition Ans: any substance or article, including a device that
is designed to function by explosion or that by chemical reaction within
itself, is able to function by explosion
Division 1.1 Ans: Mass Explosion hazard - mass explosion is one that
affects almost the entire load instantly
example - black powder, dynamite, TNT
Division 1.2 Ans: Projection hazard - but not mass explosion
example - aerial flares, detonation cord, power device cartridges
Division 1.3 Ans: Fire hazard, minor blast hazard , minor projection
hazard, NO mass explosion
example - liquid fueled rocket motors, propellant explosive
Division 1.4 Ans: Minor explosion hazard (no more than 25 grams of
detonating material)
example - practice ammo, signal cartridges
Division 1.5 Ans: Very insensitive explosive with mass explosion hazard
- under normal conditions
example - prilled ammonium nitrate fertilizers, fuel oil mix
Division 1.6 Ans: Extremely insensitive no mass explosive hazard
