Pressurized Gas
What does the acronym BLEVE stand for?
What is Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion
If you know a chemical's name but not the UN ID number, what color pages do you look at in the ERG to find the guide number?
What is blue?
A method of safeguarding people located near or in a hazardous area by keeping them in a safe atmosphere, usually inside structures.
What is shelter in place?
The stopping of a body of water, which at the same time stops the spread of the spilled material.
What is damming?
Fully encapsulated chemical-resistant suit with highest level of respiratory protection.
A reaction that is associated with over pressurization of a closed container at a rate of one second or less.
What is a rapid release?
If you know the UN ID number, but not the name of a chemical, what color pages do you look at in the ERG?
What is yellow?
Using materials to change the direction of the flow of a spill.
What is diverting?
A defensive method of controlling a spill by applying a material to which the contaminate bonds to the material applied.
What is adsorption?
What is level C?
What is the expansion ratio of propane?
What is 250/1
In the ERG, what color are the response guide pages?
What is orange?
Area immediately around and adjacent to the incident.
What is the Hot Zone?
The addition of a material to the spilled material to make it less hazardous.
What is dillution?
What is SCBA?
What is the DOT hazard class of propane?
What is Hazard Class 2?
How long should you use the ERG before considering referring to more detailed sources of information?
What is no more than 30 minutes?
Removing people away from a hazardous environment is referred to as _______.
What is evacuation?
A defensive method of controlling a spill by applying a material that soaks up the spilled material.
What is absorption?
Splash protective suit with the highest level of respiratory protection.
What is level B?
A vapor with a vapor density of 2.5 will do what when released in air?
What is sink to low areas?
The initial isolation and downwind evacuation guides are on what color pages in the ERG?
What is green?
Area where personnel and equipment are staged before they enter and after they leave the Hot Zone.
What is the Warm Zone?
The intentional movement of vapors to another area, usually by the use of master streams or hose lines.
What is vapor dispersion?
What information do you need to know before an APR can be used safely?