PROPERTIES
The 3 States of Matter
What are Solid, Liquid, and Gas?
A chemical which may produce its primary toxic effect on the Liver is ________ and a chemical which may produce toxic effects on the kidneys is ______
What is Hepatotoxin and Nephrotoxin?
This section if the ERG provides you with general response guidelines for the material involved.
What is Orange section?
PEL
What is a measurement used by OSHA in evaluating workplace exposure during an 8 hour period
NFPA 473
What is the Standard for Competencies for EMS Personnel Responding to HazMat Incidents?
Vapor Density
What is the weight of pure vapor or gas compared to an equal volume of dry air?
Displaces Oxygen
What is Simple Asphyxiant
The protective Action Distances can be found in this section of the ERG
What is the Green section?
The expansion ratios (lowest to highest) of high expansion foams.
What is 20:1 to 1000:1?
Code of Federal Regulations covering Training Requirements for First Responders at Hazmat Incidents
What is 29 CFR 1910.120?
Potential hazards faced from a hazmat incident. Acronym: TRACE-MP
What are: T- Thermal M- Mechanical R- Radiological P- Psychological A- Asphyxiation C- Chemical E- Etiological
Causing developmental abnormalities in utero.
What is a Teratogen?
If you have a UN number, you look in this section of the ERG to start obtaining information.
What is the Yellow section?
Measures a concentration of vapors or mists in the air that will be fatal to a test group, expressed in parts per million (ppm) normally.
What is Lethal Concentration?
NFPA 472
What is the standard covering Competencies of Responders to HazMAt Incidents?
Self reactions that release much energy, often violently.
What is Polymerization?
A mixture below its _____ is "too lean" to burn. A mixture above its_____ is "too rich" to burn.
What is LEL/LFL, UEL/UFL
You arrive to a HazMAt incident involving an truck rolled over into a ditch and you learn from the driver it is carrying Potassium Bromate. You are unable to see the UN number. This is where should you look FIRST in the ERG for to start gathering information.
What is the Blue boarded section? Material Index Section.
The exposure value that could be repeated a maximum of 4 times daily for 15 minutes, with a 60 minute rest period between exposures.
What is TLV-STEL?
The 3 agencies that deal with HazMat training for emergency responders
What are the EPA, OSHA, and NFPA?
These make up the Reactivity Triangle
What is Oxidizing Agent Reducing Agent Activation Agent
Primary hazard to a responder while rescuing victims in a building where non-flammable class 2 product is leaking.
What is Inhalation?
This is the area in which people are at risk of harmful exposure in Table 1.
What is Protective Action Zone?
One of the following is not a measurement for absorbed dose of radiation. Sievert (Sv) Roentgen Absorbed Dose (RAD) Gray (Gy)
What is Sievert? Sievert is the unit for equivalence dose.
The 4 agencies involved in HazMat Regulations in the U.S.
What are DOT-Depaartment of Transportation EPA-Environmental Protection Agency DOL-Department of Labor NRC-Nuclear Regulatory Comminsion