Hazmat IC Positions
_________ is responsible for directing and/or controlling resources by virtue of explicit legal, agency, or delegated authority, as well as the overall management of the response.
What is the Incident Commander
standard hazmat identifiers, designed to meet certain specifications, and placed on outer containers, trucks, cylinders, or other vehicles used for transport
What is a Placard
meters to monitor four or five different gases in the environment
What is a Multigas meter
What are the 3 hazard control zones called?
What is the Hot, Warm and Cold Zones?
What chemical is UN 1051
What is Hydrogen Cyanide, anhydrous, stabilized.
Individual who interacts with the media and public
What is the PIO
What product document can you use to find safety and health information about a chemical product?
What is the Safety Data Sheet, formerly known as the Material Safety Data Sheet
Paper used to determine if a liquid is a Acid or Base?
What is PH Paper
What are the 5 basic clues for recognizing a HAZMAT incident?
What are Occupancy and location, Container shape and size, Placards and labels, Markings and colors and Shipping and facility documents.
What is the Primary Hazard assoicated to Guide 135?
What is Fire or Explosion.
HMSO
Who is the Hazmat Safety Officer
a diamond-shaped placard that is divided into four sections, and is placed on a fixed tank or building.
What is a NFPA 704 Placard
A kit designed to contain, neutralise and clean away spills from most types of hazardous chemicals
What is a chemical spill kit or HAZCHEM spill kit
What are the three priorities during a HAZMAT incident?
What are #1 - life safety, #2 incident stabilization and #3 property conservation.
What is the first isolation distance for a large spill of UN 2202, if not on fire?
What is 3,000 feet.
The organizational level having functional and/or geographical responsibility for major aspects of incident operations.
What is the Branch element
standard hazmat identifiers, designed to meet certain specifications, and placed on packages, packagings, or overpacks.
What is a Label
This kit uses individual boxes of short term tubes and a sampling matrix to guide you through systematic testing that provides specific quantitative information on unknown substances
What is a Colormetric Tube kit or sometimes referred to as a Drager Kit
What are the 5 levels of Hazardous Materials Incidents?
What are Level 1 - Minor Hazard, Level 2 - Moderate Hazard, Level 3 - Serious Hazard, Level 4 Severe Hazard and Level 5 - Catastrophic Hazard.
What protective equipment is suggested for a chemical with UN 3082?
What is Wear Positive Pressure SCBA, Structural Firefighting protective clothing provides thermal protection BUT ONLY LIMITED CHEMCIAL PROTECTION.
Any combination of resources assembled to support a specific mission or operational need.
What is a Task Force element
What are the four separate, integrated software applications in the EPA Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations software suite
What are Cameo, Aloha, Marplot and Cameo Chemicals
Primary used to view the scene from a safe distance
What are Binoculars
What is Gross decontamination, Mass decontamination, Emergency decontamination and Technical decontamination
You are called to a MVA involving a transport truck with placard 1415 displayed with is on fire. The LT in charge orders you to use foam to put out the fire. Is this a safe operation?
What is no, as Guide 138 states in Fire "DO NOT USE WATER OR FOAM".