Hazmat Awareness and Operations Questions With Complete Solutions

Hazmat Awareness and Operations Questions With
Complete Solutions

2 NFPA standards for hazardous materials Correct Answers
NFPA 472 and 473

4 D's of making foam Correct Answers Dirty Devices Don't
Deliver

5 major functions in the IMS Correct Answers -Command
-Finance
-Logistics
-Operations
-Planning

Absorption vs adsorption Correct Answers -Absorption:
Process by which one substance, such as a liquid, combines with
another substance, such as a solid by becoming part of that
substance
-Adsorption: Material bonds to outside of adsorption medium

Activities fit into defensive operations Correct Answers -
Containment
-Confinement

Acute Correct Answers Single exposure to "High"
concentrations

Advantages of Dry decon Correct Answers -Quick, <30min
-Low cost
-Minimal footprint

, -Convenient teardown

Application Techniques Correct Answers -Lob
-Bank
-Roll
-Subsurface injection

APR Correct Answers Air-Purifying Respirators, light weight,
doesn't supply breathing air

Aqueous Film Forming Foam AFFF Correct Answers -
Knockdown 2-4 times greater than protein based foams
-Self healing

Asphyxiant Correct Answers -Substance that prevent oxygen
from combining with the blood in sufficient quantities or from
being used by body tissue
-2 types
--Simple: displace or dilute oxygen
--Chemical: react to keep body from using oxygen

Auto ignition temperature Correct Answers Minimum
temperature required to cause self sustained combustion in
absence of any source of ignition

Carcinogen Correct Answers Cancer causing, known and
suspected

CBRNE Correct Answers -Chemical
-Biological
-Radiological