UPDATED Study Guide QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
- What provides delegation of details for implementation to a specific
federal or state agency? - CORRECT ANSWERS Laws
What is a method for providing guidelines for compliance with the
law? - CORRECT ANSWERS Regulation
NFPA creates voluntary consensus ______ - CORRECT ANSWERS
Standards
What establishes a single comprehensive national incident
management system (NIMS) and Presidential Policy Directives? -
CORRECT ANSWERS 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? - CORRECT ANSWERS Presidential
Policy Directives
What law regulates labeling, shipping, and packing of hazardous
materials? - CORRECT ANSWERS Hazardous Materials
Transportation Act (1974)
,What law created a manifest tracking system, and established permit
system for treatment, storage, and disposal? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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? -
CORRECT ANSWERS 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)? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
(SARA) Title 1
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? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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? -
CORRECT ANSWERS Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title 3
What NFPA standard covers competencies for first responders dealing
with Hazmat operations? - CORRECT ANSWERS 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? -
CORRECT ANSWERS Standard Operation Guideline (SOG)
What is the 5 step process for hazardous materials incidents? -
CORRECT ANSWERS 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? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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? -
CORRECT ANSWERS 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? - CORRECT ANSWERS Notify
What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident do you have
non-intervention approach, offensive approach, and defensive
approach? - CORRECT ANSWERS Mitigate