Hazardous Material
Levels of Training: Regs & Standards
Levels of Training
Containers
Transportation & Facility Markings I
Transportation & Facility Markings II
Placards
Routes of Entry
100
A substance that remains after a process or manufacturing plant has used some of the material and the substance is no longer pure.
What is hazardous waste?
100
NFPA
What is the National Fire Protection Association?
100
A person who responds to hazardous materials/WMD incidents using a risk-based response process by which he or she analyzes a problem involving them, selects applicable decontamination procedures, and controls a release using specialized protective clothing and control equipment.
What is a technician level?
100
A glass, plastic, or steel storage container, ranging in volume from 5-15 gallons.
What is a carboy?
100
A hazardous materials marking system designed for fixed-facility use.
What is the NFPA 704 hazard identification system?
100
Shipping papers for a marine vessel are called this?
What is the dangerous cargo manifest?
100
The name of this class division.
What is 5.1 Oxidizing Substances?
100
Exposure to a hazardous material by swallowing the substance.
What is ingestion?
200
Matter or energy that when released is capable of creating harm to people, the environment, and property, including weapons of mass desturction.
What is hazardous material?
200
OSHA
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
200
Personnel who, in the course of their normal duties, could encounter an emergency involving hazardous materials/WMD and who are expected to recognize the presence of them, protect themselves, call for trained personnel, and secure the scene.
What are awareness level personnel?
200
A barrel-like storage vessel used to store a wide variety of substances.
What is a drum?
200
Formatted information provided by chemical manufacturers and distributors of hazardous products, about chemical compositions, physical and chemical properties, health & safety hazards, emergency response, and waste disposal of the material.
What are safety data sheets?
200
Shipping papers for road or highway transportation are called this.
What is bill of lading or freight bill?
200
This is what hazard class.
What is Class 3
200
Exposure to a hazardous material by the substance entering cuts or other breaches in the skin.
What is injection?
300
CBRNE
What is chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive?
300
States that have adopted the OSHA regulations are called these.
What are state-plan states?
300
A hazardous materials specialist who responds with, and provides support to hazardous materials technicians.
What is a the specialist level?
300
A fluid with a boiling point lower than -130 degrees F at an absolute pressure of 14.7 psi.
What are cryogenic liquids?
300
HMIS
What is the Hazardous Materials Information System?
300
Signage required to be placed on all four sides of highway vehicles, railroad tank cars, and other forms of hazardous materials transportation.
What are placards?
300
The guide number associated with this placard.
What is 153?
300
Exposure to a hazardous material by breathing the substance into the lungs.
What is inhalation?
400
DOT
What is Department of Transportation?
400
EPA
What is Environmental Protection Agency?
400
Persons who respond to hazardous materials/WMD incidents for the purpose of implementing or supporting actions to protect nearby persons, the environment, or property from the effects of the release.
What are operations level responders?
400
A container designed to preserve the temperature of the cold liquid held inside.
What is a dewar container?
400
This marking system is used when materials are being transported from one location to another.
What is the DOT Hazardous Materials Marking System?
400
Shipping papers for railroad transportation are called this.
What are waybills?
400
Name this hazardous material.
What is Hydrogen Peroxide?
400
The study of the adverse effects of chemical or physical agents on living organisms.
What is toxicology?
500
Any destructive device, such as any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge.
What is a weapon of mass destruction?
500
Non-Plan states are EPA states because they follow Title 40 of this.
What is the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)?
500
The individual responsible for all incident activities, including the development of strategies and tactics and the ordering and release of resources.
What is the incident commander (IC)?
500
A pressure vessel designed for absolute pressures higher than 40 psi and having a circular cross-section.
What is a cylinder?
500
In regards to military hazardous materials markings, this color is used to depict toxic agents.
What is red?
500
The shipping papers for air transport is called this.
What is the air bill?
500
At 11:30 PM a small spill of this hazardous material occurred. This is the distance that would need to be isolated around the spill.
What is 2.5 km or 1.6 miles?
500
The process by which substances travel through body tissues until they reach the bloodstream.
What is absorption?