Hazard Labels
This organization developed standard system for the identification of the hazards of materials for emergency response in the shape of a diamond.
Who is the NFPA?
THE most important aspect of emergency response.
What is personal safety?
A piece of equipment used to contain a leaking drum.
What is an over-pack drum?
Substance with a pH of >7.
What is a basic or alkali substance?
The cafe patio and northeast concrete patio.
What are the evacuation muster points during day shift?
These labels have specific pictograms on a white background with a orange border.
What are GHS labels?
Areas established to reduce the accidental spread of hazardous substances from contaminated areas to clean areas.
What are Safety Zones?
Pad color best suited to absorb corrosive spills.
What is pink?
The concentration range of a gas/vapor that will burn (or explode) if an ignition source is introduced.
What are the Explosive Limits (upper & lower)?
Hard copy SDSs are available here.
What is the Security Desk.
The pictogram is a skull and cross bones.
What is a Toxic label?
This is also known as the Exclusion Zone.
What is the Hot Zone?
This type of PPE use requires medical clearance, including spirometry, fit test, and medical history.
What is a respirator?
The measure of the density of an object in comparison to the density of water at an exact temperature and pressure.
What is specific gravity?
These are two of the three single gas real time air monitors NGB maintains.
What is Oxygen, Carbon Monoxide, or Hydrogen cyanide?
A flaming capital O.
What is the pictogram for an oxidizer?
PPE removal occurs here.
What is the Warm Zone?
Name one of two types of bung threads used on the drums at NGB.
What is Buttress or National Pipe Taper (NPT)?
An incident that poses a threat of exposure to airborne contaminants when that exposure is likely to cause death or immediate or delayed permanent adverse health effects or prevent escape from such an environment.
What is an IDLH atmosphere?
Calcium gluconate gel is used to exposure to this material.
What is BOE or hydrogen fluoride?
The DOT label color for non-flammable compressed gas?
What is green background with white border & lettering?
Contamination Reduction corridor is located here.
What is upwind from the Hot Zone.
These are the four criteria are known as this term for glove selection; Penetration, Degradation, Permeation, and Break through Time.
What is chemical compatibility?
The legal limit in the United States for an employee’s exposure to a chemical substance or a physical agent.
What is the Permissive Exposure Limit (PEL)?
Decipher the following:
NaCl
KOH
What is 'the base is under a salt'?