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Placards
100

These informational documents will be found in a facility that is storing hazardous materials inside.

What are Safety Data Sheets?

100

This is the documentation you will find with a hazardous material being transported on an airplane.

What is an Airbill?

100

This is considered the reference section of the Emergency Response Guide.

What is the White Section?

100

Under the Hazard Classification System, Corrosive Substances would be labeled with this class number.

What is Class 8?

100

Placards would not need to be displayed if transporting less than this weight of chemical.

What is 999 pounds?

200

This identification system uses a diamond shaped symbol of any size, that should be displayed on the exterior of a building.

What is the NFPA 704 Hazard Identification System?

200

This is the documentation you will find with a hazardous material being transported by means of railway.

What is the Waybill/Trainlist/Consist 

200

This is the section of the Emergency Response Guidebook that you would need to utilize if all you know is the chemical name.

What is the Blue Section?

200

Under the Hazard Classification System, Organic peroxides would be labeled with this class number.

What is Class 5?

200

This would be where Placards would need to be displayed on a transport vehicle.

What are all four sides?

300

This hazard identification system, typically displayed inside of the facility, was created for the employees of the facility, and is very similar to the NFPA 704, created for responders.

What is the Hazardous Materials Information System (HMIS)?

300

This is the documentation you will find with a hazardous material being transported by sea.

What is a Dangerous Cargo Manifest?

300

This is the section of the Emergency Response Guidebook you will utilize during the entire response.

What is the Orange Section, or Guides?

300

Under the Hazard Classification System, Gases would be labeled with this class number.

What is Class 2?

300

This would be displayed on a toxic placard.

What is a Skull and Crossbones?

400

This is how many Division's are listed in the Military Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Markings system.

What is four (4) divisions?

400

This is the documentation you will find for a hazardous material being shipped over the roadway.

What is a Freight Bill or a Bill of Lading?

400

This section would need to be referenced if the chemical is water-reactive material that produce toxic gases, toxic inhalation hazards, chemical warfare agents, or a dangerous water-reactive material.

What is the Green Section?

400

Under the Hazard Classification System, Explosives which have a mass explosion hazard, would be labeled with this class number.

What is Class 1.1?

400

This is the ERG Guide you would utilize, if presented with a yellow placard displaying "Oxygen" class 2, without a UN ID number.

What is Guide 122?

500

These are the colors displayed on the NFPA 704 triangle.

What are Red, Blue, Yellow, and White?

500

This is the person you will need to locate, to find the shipping papers on a train.

Who is the Conductor?

500

This is the guide you would need to utilize for a chemical displaying the United Nations ID number of 3332.

What is Guide 164?

500

Under the Hazardous Classifications System, a poison would be labeled with this class number.

What is Class 6?

500

This is the ERG Guide you would use, if presented with a half White, half Black placard, displaying Class 8, without a UN ID number.

What is Guide 153?