HAZWOPER 101
That Burning Feeling
Chemical Hazards
American Dates
Hazmat Paradise
100
Stands for HAZWOPER
What is HAZardous Waste OPerations and Emergency Response?
100
What type of extinguisher(s) puts out a flammable or combustible liquid fire?
What is a Class B extinguisher or Class ABC extinguisher.
100
This class of hazardous chemical includes acids and bases?
What is a corrosive chemical?
100
December 7, 1941
What is Pearl Harbor Day/Anniversary
100
Stands for MSDS.
What is a material safety data sheet?
200
Serves as a round-the-clock telephone resource for obtaining immediate emergency response information for accidental chemical releases.
What is CHEMTREC? (or CANUTEC for Canada).
200
The higher the flashpoint of a chemical, the more flammable it is.....True or False?
What is false, the lower the flashpoint the more flammable the liquid is.
200
Four potential routes of entry.
What is inhalation, ingestion, absorption, and injection.
200
July 20,1969
What is the first man on the moon
200
Stands for ERG
What is the emergency response guide put out by the USDOT.
300
Involves an unknown material(s) or other critical data are lacking.
What is an emergency release or HAZMAT emergency.
300
What are the names of the two endpoints of a chemicals flammable range called?
What is the lower explosive limit (LEL), and upper explosive limit (UEL). (Also called the LFL and UFL).
300
Repeated exposure over a longer period of time.
What is a chronic exposure?
300
October 29, 1929
What is Black Tuesday, the Great Wall Street Stock Market Crash.
300
Stands for HMIS
What is Hazardous Materials Identification System.....a labeling system....example:
400
Type of spill control measures that can be implemented by a First Responder Operations level during a HAZMAT emergency?
What are defensive measures such as booming, diking, plugging, etc. within the limits of your training.
400
The three parts of the fire pyramid.
What are..
1. Fuel
2. Oxygen
3. Heat
4. Chemical Reaction creates the fire tetrahedron
400
What are the two primary considerations when assessing risk?
What is severity and likelihood of occurence (or probability/frequency).
RISK = probability of event X severity of outcome
400
January 28, 1986
What is the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster.
400
Stands for NFPA
What is the National Fire Protection Association, this org has a label commonly known as the "NFPA Diamond":
500
Name the three components of an Emergency Response Plan
What is any three of the following......
1. Pre-emergency planning and coordination with outside parties.
2. Personnel roles, lines of authority, training, and communication.
3. Emergency recognition and prevention.
4. Safe distances and places of refuge.
5. Site security and control.
6. Evacuation routes and procedures.
7. Decontamination.
8. Emergency medical treatment and first aid.
9. Emergency alerting and response procedures.
10. Critique of response and follow-up.
11. PPE and emergency equipment.
500
This class of liquid has a flash point of less than 100 degrees fahrenheit.
What is a flammable liquid.
500
The hierarchy of controls list...
What is
1. elimination/substitution,
2. engineering controls,
3. administrative controls,
4. PPE
500
December 17, 1903
What is the Wiright brothers take flight at Kitty Hawk for the first time?
500
Name one of the two safe practices used to prevent explosion when transferring flamable liquids between dispensing drums and secondary containers.......
What is...
1. Grounding
2. Bonding