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Hazmat Operations
Hazmat Ops Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A type of container used for portable short term storage and dispensing of low-hazard materials is | a flexible bladder |
| Where should the incident command be established? | Uphill, upwind |
| What type of dam should be used in a dry creek bed? | Complete dam |
| What is it called when the lethal dose is 50 mg/L when injected into a group of rats that weighs 200-300 grams? | Lethal |
| What type of cooled vest is worn around the torso? | Ice-cooled vest |
| What type of train cars carry ammonia, ethylene oxide, propane, and chlorine? | Pressure Tank cars |
| What would you call when a person is contaminated and spreads through equipment, PPE, and indirect contact? | Secondary contamination |
| How will terrorists make their attacks to attract first responders for a secondary device? | Very Dramatic |
| What type of foam would you apply to a class B fire or spill? | Protein based foam |
| What type of protection does a SCBA provide? | Inhalation and Ingestion |
| What is it called when a hazardous material goes through holes in the suit or zipper? | Penetration |
| What contains protein products mixed with fluorinated surfactants? | Fluoroprotein foam |
| What clothes Extract heat 240 times faster than dry clothes? | Wet clothes |
| What is it called when a hazardous material seeps through the suit at a molecular level? | Permeation |
| What is the ability of a garment to resist damage or become compromised because of direct contact with the chemical? | Chemical resistance |
| What type of decon is used for a large number of people? | Mass Decon |
| Rings on a trailer indicate what type of trailer? | MC-312 |
| What type of radiation is pure electromagnetic energy? | Gamma Radiation |
| What type of packaging is used to transport materials that meet only general requirements for any hazardous material packaging? | Excepted Packaging |
| In the Incident Command without an operations chief, who would you report for a medical emergency? | Safety Officer |
| What container is used to carry oxygen and hydrogen? | Tube trailers |
| What type of PPE is it called when you have bunker pants, Bunker Jacket, Boots, Helmet, SCBA, and hood. | Structural Firefighting gear |
| What type of trailer carries cryogenic liquids? | MC-338 |
| What is known as a cancer causing agent? | Carcinogen |
| What is it called when you use fire fighting foam to cover a puddle of gasoline? | Vapor suppression |
| What determines if you shelter in place or evacuate? | Toxicity |
| What determines how badly a chemical can harm the body? | Corrosively |
| What type of ensemble will protect you from vapors, mist, dust, and gasses? | Level A ensemble |
| What is the process of lowering the concentration of vapors by spreading vapors out? | Vapor dispersion |
| What is the process of controlling fumes or vapors that are given off by materials to prevent their ignition? | Vapor suppression |
| What is the purpose of medical staff in a hazmat incident? | Rehab, check vitals, treat patients and responders |
| The cessation of sweating after being exposed to heat is called? | Heat stroke |
| Heat exhaustion, Heat cramps, Heat stroke are preceded by | Dehydration |
| What is it called when a contaminated person or object comes in contact with an uncontaminated person or object? | Secondary Contamination |
| What is it called when a spongy material is used to soak up a contaminant? | Absorption |
| What type of action is damming, diking, diverting, and retaining? | Defensive actions |
| What is a part of recovery? | Recording documentation |
| Where should hazardous materials be diverted to? | Where they can be properly Controlled and disposed of |
| In the case of a hazardous material incident and there is no decon corridor or Decontamination set up and you are in need of an emergency decon, what do you do? | Isolate the contaminated personal and perform emergency Decon |
| What is the priority in a hazardous material situation? | Life |
| What type of clothing is worn on industrial sites, oil refineries, and public works? | Work uniforms |
| What is another name for the Three zones in a hazmat situation? | Control zones |
| What action can be performed when you are certain of the chemical makeup? | Dilution |
| What would an operations level personnel use to help the incident commander determine an evacuation zone? | Detection and monitoring equipment |
| What is it called when a group of people must go into the hot zone? | The buddy system |
| Who would be responsible for giving the safety briefing? | Safety officer |
| What can be a useful tool to determine the size of evacuation zones in a hazmat scene? | Green section of your ERG |
| What type of trailers carries refrigerated liquids and cryogens and is characterized with a box at the end of a trailer indicating what kind of trailer? | MC-338 |
| What type of trailer carries corrosives and is characterized by supportive rings? | MC-312 |
| What type of trailers carries mild corrosives and flammable liquids, and is characterized by a horseshoe shape? | MC-307 |
| What is formulated so that alcohols and other polar solvents won’t dissolve the foam? | Alcohol resistant concentrates |
| A cargo ship enters a well populated harbor and one of the containers on board catches fire and smoke enters the air, what kind of hazmat scene would this be? | Level 3 |
| At what level do hazardous materials need to be requested? | Level 2 |
| What is it called when a chemical such as VX has a low vapor pressure and will not evaporate quickly? | Persistence |
| Chemicals can be absorbed faster through the ______ than the ________? | Scalp, Forearm |
| When a responder wears a liquid splash protective PPE what is he not protected against? | Vapors and Gasses |
| What is the rest period of the TLV/STEL? | 1 hour |
| What container at a fixed facility is used to hold gasoline/diesel? | Non Pressure |
| What is evacuation? | Removal or location of those individuals who may be affected by an approaching release of a hazardous material |
| What is the NRG? | Operated by coast guard, it receives reports required when hazardous materials are spilled. They notify appropriate federal on-scene coordinator and concerned federal agencies |
| What is considered a pressure tank? | Greater than 15 psi |
| Who reports directly to the IC? | Safety Officer |
| As a part of _________________________ period, reporting and documentation should be completed in accordance to the AHJ’s policies and procedures | RECOVERY |
| Who is in charge of safety on scene? | Safety Officer |
| What is anhydrous? | Without water |
| What is long term exposure? | Days, weeks, or even longer |
| Includes a small fan to help circulate air into the mask | Powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) |
| Tachycardia, red skin, headache, confusion, unconsciousness, seizures are signs and symptoms of what? | Heat stroke |
| What environmental factors influence the extent of cold injuries? | Wind speed and temperature |
| Which respiratory protection cannot be used in an IDLH atmosphere? | APR |
| Emergency decon on a large number of people is what? | Mass decontamination |
| Which decontamination takes place in a controlled area? | Gross decontamination |
| Maximum concentration of a hazardous material to which a person can be exposed for 8 hours a day, 40 hours per week. | TLV/TWA |
| What is highly toxic by all routes of entry? | Poison |
| Which of these is not a type of container failure? | Biological |
| What is the process by which people, animals, the property, and equipment are subjected to or come in contact with a hazardous material/WMD? | Exposure |
| What type of exposure lasts seconds or minutes? | Short term |
| What type of exposure last hours? | Medium term |
| If gas was spilled into a waterway what would it do? | Float/Rise |
| Chemicals that would have a predominant amount of hydroxide(OH-)? | Bases |
| What is the lowest temperature at which sustained combustion of the vapor will occur? | Fire point |
| What describes the corrosivity of toxic chemicals? | Acids & Bases |
| The temperature at which the vapor pressure of a liquid equals the surrounding atmospheric pressure? | Boiling point |
| What is the relation of temperature to vapor pressure? | As temperature rises the vapor pressure rises |
| Lethal concentration (LC) takes effect by what route? | Inhalation |
| What part of a CAN report does the AHJ have direct control over? | Conditions |
| A visual scan and exploration of a physical area to gain actionable information to guide incident decision making? | Reconnaissance |
| What makes a radio intrinsically safe? T | The electricity is not strong enough to ignite a flammable atmosphere |
| The safety officer reports directly to? | IC |
| Who communicates to local and state agencies? | Liaison |
| The ________________________ is stationed in the cold zone. | Command Post |
| Liquids with densities higher than _____ will sink. | 1.0 |
| Bulk packaging contains a liquid capacity greater than? | 119 gallons. |
| Diking means | The placement of materials to form a barrier that will keep a hazardous material in liquid form from entering an area or that will hold the material in an area. |
| If a carboy contains 16 gallons is it bulk or non bulk? | Non bulk |
| What is the lining of a MC-312 tank? | Rubber |
| When pressure testing a level A suit what % lost means it has a leak? | 20% |
| What is an IM tank? | intermodal tank; bulk storage container that holds between 5,000 and 6,000 gallons of product; can be either pressure or nonpressure |
| Which MC is a non pressure liquid cargo tank? | 306 |
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