HAZMAT Awareness Exam Questions and
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What does NFPA stand for? - ✔✔National Fire Protection Association
What is NFPA 1072? - ✔✔Standard for Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Emergency
Response Personnel Professional Qualification
What are the roles of the awareness level personnel during HAZMAT/WMD incidents? - ✔✔- Recognize
the presence of HAZMAT/WMD
- Protect themselves
- Call for trained personnel
- Secure the area
- Act defensively in the name of safety
Where can other guidelines for awareness level personnel be found? - ✔✔SOPs and ERG
Where are ERGs and SOPs applicable to? - ✔✔Each jurisdiction
When analyzing an incident, what tasks must you perform? - ✔✔- Recognize the presence of
HAZMAT/WMD
- Identify the name, UN/NA identification number, type of placard, or other distinctive markings applied
for the HAZMAT/WMD involved from a safe location
- Identify potential hazards from the current edition of the ERG, SDS, and other approved references
- Initiate protective actions (isolate hazard area, deny entry)
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,- Initiate required notification
How does NFPA 1072 define hazardous materials? - ✔✔Matter (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy that when
released is capable of creating harm to people, the environment, and property, including WMD as
defined in 18 U.S. Code, Section 2332a, as well as any other criminal use of hazardous materials, such as
illicit labs, environmental crimes, or industrial sabotage
How does the DOT define hazardous materials? - ✔✔Covers nine hazard classes, some of which have
subcategories called divisions. DOT includes in its regulations hazardous substances and hazardous
wastes as Class 9 (Miscellaneous Hazardous Materials), both of which are regulated by the EPA, if their
inherent properties would not otherwise be covered
What are the three types of exposures? - ✔✔People, the environment, and property
Define hazardous substances - ✔✔Chemicals that, if released into the environment above a certain
amount, must be reported, and, depending on the threat to the environment, federal involvement in
handling the incident can be authorized (EPA)
Define extremely hazardous substances - ✔✔Chemicals that must be reported to the appropriate
authorities if released above the threshold reporting quantity (EPA) (matters HOW MUCH there is)
Define toxic chemicals - ✔✔Chemicals whose total emissions or release must be reported annually by
owners and operators of certain facilities that manufacture, process, or otherwise use a listed toxic
chemical (EPA) (matters WHAT it is)
Define hazardous waste - ✔✔Chemicals that are regulated under the Resource, Conservation, and
Recovery Act (RCRA) - transportation is regulated by DOT (EPA)
Define dangerous goods - ✔✔HAZMAT is called dangerous goods by the UN
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, Define highly hazardous chemicals - ✔✔Chemicals that possess toxic, reactive, flammable, or explosive
properties (OSHA)
Define weapons of mass destruction - ✔✔Any destructive device, such as any explosive, incendiary, or
poison gas, bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces, missile having
an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one quarter ounce, mine, or device similar to the
preceding description; any weapon involving toxic or poisonous chemicals; any weapon involving a
disease organism; any weapon that is designed to release radiation or radioactivity at a level dangerous
to human life (to include dirty bombs)
What is a class one HAZMAT? - ✔✔Explosives
What is the major hazard of class one HAZMAT? - ✔✔Explosion
What color background is the class one placard? - ✔✔Orange
Define a class one HAZMAT - ✔✔Any material or mixture that will undergo an extremely fast self-
propagation reaction when subjected to some form of energy
Define Division 1.1 - ✔✔Explosives that have a mass explosion hazard. A mass explosion is one that
affects almost the entire load instantaneously (black powder, dynamite)
Define Division 1.2 - ✔✔Explosives that have a projection hazard but not a mass explosion hazard (aerial
flares, detonation cord)
Define Division 1.3 - ✔✔Explosives that have a fire hazard and either a minor blast hazard or a minor
projection hazard, or both, but not a mass explosion hazard (propellant explosives, liquid-fueled rocket
motors)
Define Division 1.4 - ✔✔Explosives that present a minor explosion hazard. The explosive effects are
largely confined to the package and no projection of fragments of appreciable size or range is expected.
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Answers 100% Pass
What does NFPA stand for? - ✔✔National Fire Protection Association
What is NFPA 1072? - ✔✔Standard for Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Emergency
Response Personnel Professional Qualification
What are the roles of the awareness level personnel during HAZMAT/WMD incidents? - ✔✔- Recognize
the presence of HAZMAT/WMD
- Protect themselves
- Call for trained personnel
- Secure the area
- Act defensively in the name of safety
Where can other guidelines for awareness level personnel be found? - ✔✔SOPs and ERG
Where are ERGs and SOPs applicable to? - ✔✔Each jurisdiction
When analyzing an incident, what tasks must you perform? - ✔✔- Recognize the presence of
HAZMAT/WMD
- Identify the name, UN/NA identification number, type of placard, or other distinctive markings applied
for the HAZMAT/WMD involved from a safe location
- Identify potential hazards from the current edition of the ERG, SDS, and other approved references
- Initiate protective actions (isolate hazard area, deny entry)
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,- Initiate required notification
How does NFPA 1072 define hazardous materials? - ✔✔Matter (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy that when
released is capable of creating harm to people, the environment, and property, including WMD as
defined in 18 U.S. Code, Section 2332a, as well as any other criminal use of hazardous materials, such as
illicit labs, environmental crimes, or industrial sabotage
How does the DOT define hazardous materials? - ✔✔Covers nine hazard classes, some of which have
subcategories called divisions. DOT includes in its regulations hazardous substances and hazardous
wastes as Class 9 (Miscellaneous Hazardous Materials), both of which are regulated by the EPA, if their
inherent properties would not otherwise be covered
What are the three types of exposures? - ✔✔People, the environment, and property
Define hazardous substances - ✔✔Chemicals that, if released into the environment above a certain
amount, must be reported, and, depending on the threat to the environment, federal involvement in
handling the incident can be authorized (EPA)
Define extremely hazardous substances - ✔✔Chemicals that must be reported to the appropriate
authorities if released above the threshold reporting quantity (EPA) (matters HOW MUCH there is)
Define toxic chemicals - ✔✔Chemicals whose total emissions or release must be reported annually by
owners and operators of certain facilities that manufacture, process, or otherwise use a listed toxic
chemical (EPA) (matters WHAT it is)
Define hazardous waste - ✔✔Chemicals that are regulated under the Resource, Conservation, and
Recovery Act (RCRA) - transportation is regulated by DOT (EPA)
Define dangerous goods - ✔✔HAZMAT is called dangerous goods by the UN
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, Define highly hazardous chemicals - ✔✔Chemicals that possess toxic, reactive, flammable, or explosive
properties (OSHA)
Define weapons of mass destruction - ✔✔Any destructive device, such as any explosive, incendiary, or
poison gas, bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces, missile having
an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one quarter ounce, mine, or device similar to the
preceding description; any weapon involving toxic or poisonous chemicals; any weapon involving a
disease organism; any weapon that is designed to release radiation or radioactivity at a level dangerous
to human life (to include dirty bombs)
What is a class one HAZMAT? - ✔✔Explosives
What is the major hazard of class one HAZMAT? - ✔✔Explosion
What color background is the class one placard? - ✔✔Orange
Define a class one HAZMAT - ✔✔Any material or mixture that will undergo an extremely fast self-
propagation reaction when subjected to some form of energy
Define Division 1.1 - ✔✔Explosives that have a mass explosion hazard. A mass explosion is one that
affects almost the entire load instantaneously (black powder, dynamite)
Define Division 1.2 - ✔✔Explosives that have a projection hazard but not a mass explosion hazard (aerial
flares, detonation cord)
Define Division 1.3 - ✔✔Explosives that have a fire hazard and either a minor blast hazard or a minor
projection hazard, or both, but not a mass explosion hazard (propellant explosives, liquid-fueled rocket
motors)
Define Division 1.4 - ✔✔Explosives that present a minor explosion hazard. The explosive effects are
largely confined to the package and no projection of fragments of appreciable size or range is expected.
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