General Awareness
Any person employed by a HAZMAT employer is considered one of these.
What is a HAZMAT employee?
When placarding a HAZMAT vehicle, the number of sides of the vehicle displaying the placard.
What is all four (4) sides?
For HAZMAT Responders and HAZMAT Employees, published in 2016.
What is the Emergency Response Guidebook?
The product type your vehicle is carrying.
What you should not discuss with unauthorized personnel.
Hazardous Materials regulations and company policy require a driver to be this distance from the trailer when loading or unloading.
What is 25 feet?
The length of time that a HAZMAT employer has to provide training to their employees.
What is 90 days?
The Emergency Response number can be found on this document.
What is on the manifest or shipping paper?
This inert gas and an asphyxiant makes up 78% of the earth's atmosphere.
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What is Nitrogen?
This security concern should be reported to your supervisor immediately.
What is suspicious or unusual activity?
The minimum distance from the traveled portion of the highway a HAZMAT vehicle is permitted to park
What is five (5) feet?
The frequency in time that a HAZMAT employee must be re-certified.
What is three (3) years?
The color of placards when placed on the surface of a bulk tanker.
What is a contrasting color?
One hundred (100) yards or Three Hundred Thirty (330) meters.
What is the initial downwind evacuation distance of a large spill of Liquid Nitrogen.
The possible locations of HAZMAT shipping manifest when you are not at the controls of the vehicle.
What is on the driver's seat or in the driver's door pouch?
The minimum distance from a HAZMAT vehicle a driver should allow others to smoke.
What is twenty-five (25) feet?
The number of sections the Hazardous Materials Regulations are divided into.
What is divided into four sections?
The three (3) reasons that HAZMAT carriers must placard.
What is communicate the hazard, mitigate response and it is a regulatory requirement?
This document is within arm's reach with your seatbelt fastened when transporting Hazardous Materials.
What is the location of the Emergency Response Guidebook?
All trailer compartments should be in this condition while in transit.
What is secured and locked?
These should be used to mark and identify any hazards that may be in your path when backing.
What is the purpose of placing safety cones?
The sections of the 49 CFR for Transportation regulations that pertain to HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
What are parts 171 through 180?
On HAZMAT paperwork, the location of any Special Permits information.
What is directly behind the HAZMAT description Proper Shipping name?
If you don't have an Emergency Response Guidebook, one of these can be used in its place.
What is a Safety Data Sheet?
When the vehicle engine is not running or the vehicle is parked and unattended this should be removed.
What is the ignition key?
A substance or material that the Secretary of Transportation has determined is capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, and property when transported in commerce.
What is Hazardous Materials or Dangerous Goods?