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Chemial Properties
Properties and Such
Hazards
The ERG!
Grab Bag
100

T or F? Turn out gear provides adequate protection from all Hazardous Materials

False

100

Up Hill - Up Wind

How do you approach a hazardous material incident?

100

Classes of hazardous Materials

9 Classes. 1-Explosives, 2-Gases, 3-Flammable Gas-Liquides, 4-Flammable Solids, Spontaneously Combustible, Dangerous when Wet, 5-Oxidizers and Organic Peroxides, 6-Toxic, 7-Radioactive, 8-Corrosives, 9-Miscellaneous 

100

This section if the ERG provides you with general response guidelines for the material involved.

What is Orange section?

100
PEL
What is a measurement used by OSHA in evaluating workplace exposure during an 8 hour period
200

 Solid, Liquid, and Gas

What are the three states of matter?

200

Located in the warm zone

 Decon

200
Displaces Oxygen
What is Simple Asphyxiant
200
The protective Action Distances can be found in this section of the ERG
What is the Green section?
200
The expansion ratios (lowest to highest) of high expansion foams.
What is 20:1 to 1000:1?
300

Liquid

What is the state of matter that has mass, but not a specific shape?

300

Potential are hazards faced from a hazmat incident. Acronym: TRACE-MP

What are: T- Thermal, R- Radiological, A- Asphyxiation, C- Chemical, E- Etiological, M- Mechanical,                P- Psychological 

300

Non-Bulk Containers

Drums, Bags, Carboys.

300
If you have a UN number, you look in this section of the ERG to start obtaining information.
What is the Yellow section?
300

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?

400

 Vapor Density

What's the chemical property of gas to air.

400

Self reactions that release much energy, often violently.

What is Polymerization?

400

 Lower Explosive / Upper Explosive Limit

What is LEL, UEL the amount of vapor to air mixture.

400

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.

400

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?

500

 Pyrophoric Reaction

What is a material that can self-Ignites.

500

These make up the Fire Triangle

Heat, Fuel, and Oxygen.

500

Primary hazard to a responder while rescuing victims in a building where non-flammable class 2 product is leaking.

What is Inhalation?

500

This is the area in which people are at most risk of harmful exposure.

What is Protective Action Zone, or Hot Zone?

500

NFPA 704, What does the it mean with the letters (SA) in the White Section

Simple Asphyxiant.