Legislation
Contaminated Sites
Monitoring and Reporting
Health and Safety
Mystery Questions
100

Legislation is organized into these three main levels of government. 

Federal, provincial, and municipal.


100

This amount of 'free product' must be measured in a well for it to be classified as NAPL (mm).

2 mm

100

These two things should be included on every page of one's field notes. 

Date and page number 

*recommending: project identifier (#/name)

100

This form must be completed at the beginning of each field day, and upload (as PDF) to the Project's Health and Safety folder.

Daily tailgate.
100

A residential building must be at least this many storeys to be considered high density residential.

3 storeys.

200

This provincial regulation provides a set of matrix standards for water*, soil, sediment and vapour.

Contaminated Sites Regulation.

200

For every ___ samples a duplicate sample should be taken.

10.

200

Nephelometric Turbidity Unit (NTU) is used in the measurement of this parameter.

Turbidity.

200

First aid training certification expire in __ years.

3.

200

The sub surface slab vapour attenuation factor.

0.02

300

This document outlines the stockpiling sampling frequency.

Technical Guidance 1.

300

The number and location of confirmatory samples one would generally take following removal of a underground storage tank (UST).

5 total

1 from each side wall and 1 from the base

300

These three parameters are needed from the receiving environment to determine water quality guidelines.

pH, hardness, and dissolved organic carbon.

300

The 3 Worker's Rights.

1. The right to know.

2. The right to participate.

3. The right to refuse work.

300
This process describes the movement pathway of product (e.g., tetrachloroethylene) when it dissolves into groundwater at the water table forming a plume.

Dissolution.

400

For marine mammal monitoring, species on this schedule are denoted as 'shut down species', according to this Act.

Schedule 1 of the Species at Risk Act (SARA).

400

This organic compound replaced lead as an additive to gasoline (circa 1990s).

methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE).

400

The general default buffer (m) to place around an active bird's nest, if encountered on-site.


15 m

*place buffer, call PM/QEP for determination

400

Decreased focus/alertness, reduced memory retention, and micro sleeps are considered symptoms of this.

Fatigue.

400

This upstream landmark on the Fraser River is considered 'fresh water' by the BC Ministry of Environment. 

The Pattullo Bridge.

500

This BC ENV instrument is afforded to a property when the health concerns associated with contamination have been adequately assessed to be low/no risk. 

Certificate of Compliance

500

These two primary potential contaminants of concern are associated with dry cleaning operations.

Tetrachloroethylene and trichloroethylene (aka PERC and TCE).

500

In the event of a spill these 6 steps should be followed. 

1. Ensure safety 

2. Stop the flow (when possible)

3. Secure the area

4. Contain the spill 

5. Notify/ Report

6. Clean-up 

500

The priority order for emergency care is best remember as the ABC's of first aid, which stand for _________. 

Airways, breathing and circulation.

500

Vancouver is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of these three indigenous communities.

xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.