Hazardous Materials

Emergency Response Guide

100

Initial action guides

What are the Orange-Bordered Pages?

200

ERG Material Name Index

What are the blue bordered pages?

300

ERG ID Number Index

What are the yellow bordered pages?

400

Potential Hazards Section

What are the green bordered pages?

500

ERG is reproduced and distributed every ___years

What is 4 years?

Terms

100

A physical and/or chemical event occuring during contact between materials that have an attraction for each other

What is Absorption

200

Controlling the product that has already been released from its container

What is confinement?

300

The breaking up or dispersing of a hazardous material that has spilled on a solid or liquid surface

What is dispersion?

400

Covering the surface of the spill to prevent dispersion of materials

What is blanketing/covering?

500

The molecules of the hazardous material physically adhere to the material.

What is Adsorption?

Response

100

These items should be on the first in crew to a potential HazMat call.

What is 4 Gas Meter, SCBA, Full PPE?

200

This piece of information should be requested by responding units to a potential HazMat incident?

What is weather?

300

These are helpful when identfiying a possible leak from a distance

What are binoculars?

400

You should always be positioned _____ and _____ from the incident

What is uphill and upwind

500

Haz Mat incidents involve a substance that...

poses an unreasonable risk, released from its container, may be on fire

PPE/Decon

100

Vsapor protective suit and SCBA are included in this level of PPE

What is Level A?

200

Chemical Resistant gloves and support function protective garment are part of what PPE level

What is Level C?

300

Gloves and faceshield are optional in this level of PPE

What is Level D?

400

The catergories of decontamination are...

What are Patient decon, Buddy decon, Self decon?

500

to make the contaminant less harmful by changing it through some kind of process

What is Chemical Decontamination?

Miscellaneous

100

This is the least harmful type of radiation

What is Alpha rays?

200

20.8%

What is the normal Oxygen percent in the atmosphere?

300

There are this many DOT symbols that are possible on a UN placard.

What is Seven?

400

These are the possible routes of entry of a toxin into your body

What are inhalation, ingestion, injection, absorption, penetration?

500

The 6 possible colors of the background of a UN placard.

Orange (explosive), Yellow (oxidizer), Red (flammable), White (health hazard), Blue (water reactive), Green (nonflammable gas)