Chemicals
Multiple barrels of a chemical are spilling in a warehouse, you notice they all are placarded with the number 1830. What chemical is this and what are some health hazards of this Chemical?
Sulfuric Acid is corrosive and toxic. Inhalation or skin contact may cause severe injury, burns or even death.
What 3 vital pieces of information do the yellow pages of the ERG provide?
Chemical Name, Guide Number, and Identifies a Chemical as a Toxic Inhalation Hazard, a Chemical Warfare Agent or a Dangerous Water Reactive Material
Solid, Liquid and Gas
What 4 ways can you identify a chemical?
DOT Placard, Orange Panel, Shipping Paper/Package, and Shipping Documents/MSDS
Phone numbers for CHEMTREC and other Federal Agencies, which may need to be notified for a HAZMAT spill can be found where?
Back cover and last pages of the ERG.
What is the isolation distance for a large mustard spill at night?
.3 miles down wind
What are the blue pages of the ERG used for?
Looking up chemicals by name in alphabetical order. Provides the Guide Number, Chemical Number and Highlights Highly Reactive materials.
What is the LEL/UEL of a gas?
When responding to a HAZMAT Scene, how should you approach?
Up hill and Up Wind, keeping a safe distance.
What are the types of Gasses can our Multimeter detect?
Oxygen, Hydrogen Sulfide, Pentanes (LEL/UEL), and Carbon Monoxide
A shipment has overturned on the highway. A large cloud of product is across the highway making a fog. You notice the placard 1845. What is the major concern of this chemical?
The gas is more dense than air which can displace oxygen. SCBA should be used.
Which section of the ERG provides you with information such as Health Hazards, Fire or Explosion Dangers, PPE required, Initial Evacuation distances, First Aid, and actions to take if product is spilling or leaking?
The orange sections/Guide Section
What does Vapor Density mean, and what is the Vapor Density of air?
Vapor Density is the weight of a specific gas or vapor compared to the weight of regular air. Regular Air's Vapor Density is 1.
At what concentration of Carbon Monoxide should you Mask Up?
35 Parts Per Million
What are the some Copoligical indicators at the scene of a spill?
If the police car is running, you know the product does not displace oxygen. If the police officer is near the spill and looks fine, you know your Structural PPE can provide limited protection.
With either Dry Chemical, soda ash, lime or sand, or for large fires involving trucks/trailers from a distance with unmanned monitors cooling the containers with large amounts of water from a distance.
Isolation distances for large or small spills, during day or night can be found in which pages?
The green pages.
What is Specific Gravity, and what is the specific gravity of water?
Arriving first due to a Hazmat spill, what are you initial actions?
Identify the Chemical, Set up Isolation Zone, and Risk Benefit Analysis of victim rescue
What agencies do we work with most commonly on HazMat Incidents?
Garfield HazMat, Bergen County HazMat, NJDEP
You arrive to a vehicle fire that you identify as a Tesla. What are the health hazards and guide page of this fire.
Guide page 147. contact with battery electrolyte may be irritating to skin, eyes and mucus membrane. Fire will produce irritating, corrosive or toxic gasses. (Hydrogen Floride Gas)
Where in the ERG can you find Class information, Placard Breakdowns, and a guide for identifying different types of rail cars and trailers?
Beginning White Pages.
Vapor Pressure of a liquid means?
How quickly a liquid will evaporate into a gas.
What do the 4 panels of an NFPA 704 placard stand for?
Blue is Health Hazard, Red is Flammability, Yellow is Instability, and white is special hazards. The higher the number in each part of the diamond, the more sever the risk.
What does B.L.E.V.E. stand for?
Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion