Emergency Response Guide
Initial action guides
A physical and/or chemical event occuring during contact between materials that have an attraction for each other
What is Absorption
What is 4 Gas Meter, SCBA, Full PPE?
What is Level A?
This is the least harmful type of radiation
What is Alpha rays?
ERG Material Name Index
What are the blue bordered pages?
What is confinement?
This piece of information should be requested by responding units to a potential HazMat incident?
What is weather?
Chemical Resistant gloves and support function protective garment are part of what PPE level
What is Level C?
20.8%
What is the normal Oxygen percent in the atmosphere?
ERG ID Number Index
What are the yellow bordered pages?
The breaking up or dispersing of a hazardous material that has spilled on a solid or liquid surface
What is dispersion?
These are helpful when identfiying a possible leak from a distance
What are binoculars?
Gloves and faceshield are optional in this level of PPE
What is Level D?
There are this many DOT symbols that are possible on a UN placard.
What is Seven?
Potential Hazards Section
What are the green bordered pages?
Covering the surface of the spill to prevent dispersion of materials
What is blanketing/covering?
You should always be positioned _____ and _____ from the incident
What is uphill and upwind
The catergories of decontamination are...
What are Patient decon, Buddy decon, Self decon?
What are inhalation, ingestion, injection, absorption, penetration?
ERG is reproduced and distributed every ___years
What is 4 years?
The molecules of the hazardous material physically adhere to the material.
What is Adsorption?
Haz Mat incidents involve a substance that...
poses an unreasonable risk, released from its container, may be on fire
to make the contaminant less harmful by changing it through some kind of process
What is Chemical Decontamination?
The 6 possible colors of the background of a UN placard.
Orange (explosive), Yellow (oxidizer), Red (flammable), White (health hazard), Blue (water reactive), Green (nonflammable gas)