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HAZMAT Questions and Answers Latest 2020/2023 with Correct Answers What is the acronym to describe the 12 steps of response. ✔✔It's a SIN to work for the CIA If you do PCP you'll see DDD What ... does SIN stand for? ✔✔Safety: First/ Last/ Always Isolate/ Deny Entry: begin to set up zones of hazmat incident Notify: call for a hazmat team What does CIA stand for? ✔✔Command: ICS and institute an assistant safety officer (Hazmat trained) Identify/ Hazard Analysis Action Plan What does ERG stand for, what is it and where do you find one? ✔✔Emergency Response Guidebook: It is a reference book outlining important hazardous materials and how to initially deal with them. They can be found on every piece of emergency vehicle to deal with transportation incidents. What is the acronym for identifying hazmat classes? ✔✔Every Good Firefighter Fries Onions Plus Roasts Chicken Daily Explain Class 1 Hazmats ✔✔Explosives/ Orange/ bursting ball Explain Class 2 Hazmats ✔✔Gas/ varied color/ varied pictogram Explain Class 3 Hazmats ✔✔Flammable-Combustible Liquids/ Red/ Flame Explain Class 4 Hazmats ✔✔Flammable/Combustible Solids/ White over Red, Blue, Red and White Stripes/ Flame Explain Class 5 Hazmats ✔✔Oxidizers/ Yellow/ burning ball Explain Class 6 Hazmats ✔✔Poisons/ White/ Skull and Crossbones Explain Class 7 Hazmats ✔✔Radioactive/ yellow over white/ Trefoil Explain Class 8 Hazmats ✔✔Corrosives/ White over Black/ Chemical test tube spill Explain Class 9 Hazmats ✔✔Misc. or Dangerous/ Black and white stripes over white, red over white/ varied or no pictogram What is a Hazmat? ✔✔Any substance outside of its proper, safe container in sufficient amounts to threaten life, the environment or property What does IDHA stand for? ✔✔Identification and Hazard Assessment What are the 5 section colors and their meanings for the ERG? ✔✔1. White: How to use guide, placard reference, chemical assistance company numbers 2. Yellow: Substance ID number is known to reference the guide 3. Blue: Substance name is known to reference the guide 4. Orange: the guide 5. Green: guidelines for safe distances What are the different types of shipping papers and where can one find them? ✔✔1. Bill of lading/ truck/ in cab on driver's side pouch 2. Air bill/ plane/ flight deck 3. Waybill and consist/ rail/ conductor, engineer, crew 4. Dangerous Cargo Manifest/ Ship/ Captain on Bridge What does MSDS stand for and where would one find them? ✔✔Material Safety Data Sheet(s): generally available for each Hazmat in the workplace (required by OSHA) What the 3 safety considerations when approaching a hazmat incident? ✔✔Uphill, upwind, upgrade What is the first operational thought? ✔✔SAFETY What is the first operational Priority? ✔✔ISOLATE What is the first operational Objective? ✔✔Perimeter Control What are the 3 control zones. ✔✔1. Hot/ Exclusion 2. Warm/ Contamination Reduction 3. Cold/ Safe, Support What are the factors affecting your exposure to a hazardous material? ✔✔Time, distance and shielding What does PCP for hazmat stand for? ✔✔1. PPE 2. Contain/ Control Situation 3. Protective Actions (Public/ Rescue/ Evac/ Shelter in Place) What does DDD stand for? ✔✔Decontamination Disposal Document How many resources do you need to ID a substance? ✔✔3 What NFPA standard describes diamond placarding for buildings? ✔✔704 How do you interpret the colors of the diamond building placard? ✔✔blue=health red=flammable yellow=reactive no color=special hazard 1=low, 4= high If you see a building diamond placard with a 2, 3, 1 or higher what should you do? ✔✔Take extra precautions What is the importance of ERG Guide 111? ✔✔Catch all guide if you cannot identify the material How many minimum sections are on an MSDS? ✔✔9 What is toxicology? ✔✔The study of systemic adverse effects on the body by chemicals. What is LD50? ✔✔Lethal dose: dose lethal enough for 50% of the population What are the routes of entry for a poison? ✔✔1. Inhalation 2. Ingestion 3. Absorption 4. Injection Most hazmats are __________ (3). ✔✔1. Odorless 2. Tasteless 3. Colorless What is IDLH? ✔✔Immediately dangerous to life and health What is TLV? ✔✔Threshold Limit Value: limit where normal amount an individual can be exposed without seeing/ recognizing adverse effects. (Over 8hrs/day) What is STEL: ✔✔Short Term Exposure Limit: Various time frames. 15 minutes to intervals of no more than 4X/Day Lethal Concentration: ✔✔50% What are the 4 levels of hazmat PPE? ✔✔A. SCBA + Vapor protection B. SCBA + Splash protection C. APR (Air Purifying Respirator) + Splash protection D. Ordinary Work Clothes What is containment? ✔✔Safe acts to restrict, slow or redirect the spread of hazmats. What are 4 protective actions to consider? ✔✔1. Evac 2. Shelter 3. Rescue 4. Do nothing What are 6 considerations for protective actions? ✔✔1. Materials involved 2. Population threatened and dynamics for movement 3. Responder resources 4. Time factor 5. Weather 6. Public comms What are the 3 types of Decontamination? ✔✔1. emergency: 1st at scene 2. primary: decon corridor, pool and decon agent/ process (at scene by first responder) 3. secondary: clean gear after incident (post incident) not function of FROs What does decontamination mean? ✔✔Remove contaminants or neutralize How long are Hazmats followed for? ✔✔Cradle to Grave How long are Exposure Records kept for? ✔✔30 years What is the ICS form used to record the initial information? ✔✔214 There is a "p" symbol used in relation to various substances, what does it mean? ✔✔Polymerization hazard (Polymerization is a chemical reaction where small units combine to make larger ones. If this takes place in an enclosed container, heat and pressure can build tremendously and explode.) What are important elements to consider when responding to a WMD incident (4). ✔✔1. secondary devices 2. manage scene 3. rapid evac 4. recover evidence What is the definition of terrorism ✔✔INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP USING FORCE AGAINST OTHERS IN ORDER TO COERCE/ CAUSE CHANGE IN THOUGH OR ACTION What does CBRNE stand for? ✔✔C: chemical agents B: Biohazards R: Radiological Hazards N: Nuclear Hazards E: Explosives What does BNICE stand for? ✔✔B: biohazards N: nuclear I: incendiary C: chemical E: explosive What are the factors of a threat? ✔✔1. surprise 2. means of attack 3. target of attack 4. foreknowledge of community response 5. significant dates What are clan labs? ✔✔Clandestine laboratories: illegal laboratories used to make drugs (meth, speed, crack) What does TIC/ TIM stand for? ✔✔Toxic industrial chemicals/materials Name some chemical agents? ✔✔Anhydrous Ammonia Chlorine Hydrogen cyanide Name a choking agent? ✔✔Phosgene Name some blood agents? ✔✔HCN, cyanogen chloride Name some blister agents? ✔✔Mustard, Lewsite, Phosgene oxine Name some nerve agents? ✔✔Tabun, sarin, soman, VX What does SLUDGEM stand for (chemical exposure)? ✔✔Salivation, Lacrimation, urination, defacation, gastric distress, emesis, miosis (pinpoint pupils) What three things should one consider to reduce change of exposure/ contamination? ✔✔Time, Distance, Shielding Name three exposure types? ✔✔1. External exposure (rays) 2. External contaminants (debris) 3. Internal contaminants (eat/ breath) What is a dirty bomb? ✔✔A bomb made of a radioactive source + a regular bomb For radioactive exposures what must one consider? ✔✔1. Dosage and Dose Rate 2. Time What is considered a safe amount of radiation for a working area ✔✔up to 2 milirankins for up to hours What is considered an acceptable amount of radiation for a rescue? ✔✔up to 100 REM What are 5 D's of containment? ✔✔dike, divert, dam, disperse, dilute What does RAIN stand for? ✔✔Recognize, Avoid, Isolate, Notify What is a TLO? ✔✔Terrorist Liason Officer What is in a Mark 1 kit? ✔✔2 PAM Chloride and atropine What is a dosimeter? ✔✔A device that measures radiation. How many REM is an average person allowed to be exposed to in a lifetime? ✔✔25 REM What are 4 types of decon? ✔✔1. emergency 2. primary 3. secondary 4. mass Why do decon? ✔✔1. law 2. reality 3. SOPs 2 Methods and types of decon? ✔✔theoretical and practical What are the positions of a decontamination setup? ✔✔Handler rinser supervisor bagger What is the PPE for decon? ✔✔Chemical protective cover Respirator What are 4 types of respirators? ✔✔1. APR 2. Powered APR 3. SCBA 4. Dirt Mask What are medical considerations of Hazmat decon personnel? ✔✔1. Heat 2. weight/ temp/ bp/ pulse/ location 3. work duration What is in a T-Bag? ✔✔1. suit, respiratory protection 2. 3x mark 1 autoinjectors 3. decon kit (triage tag, clear and black bags, triage [Show More]

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