HAZWOPER & Emergencies
HAZWOPER stands for this.
What is Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response?
This term refers to exposure that occurs quickly and intensely.
What is acute exposure?
This device prevents workers from reaching moving parts of a machine.
What is a machine guard?
This route involves breathing in chemicals or dust.
What is inhalation?
This federal agency regulates pollution and toxic waste, not workplace safety.
What is the EPA?
This HAZWOPER training level allows you to contain and control spills defensively.
What is First Responder Operations?
This SDS term refers to a chemical’s ability to catch fire at a specific temperature.
What is flash point?
Before servicing equipment, workers must use this system to ensure safety.
What is Lockout/Tagout (LOTO)?
This route involves skin contact or eye exposure.
What is absorption?
This is a written document outlining the guiding principles, values, and expectations for ethical behavior within an organization or profession.
What is a Code of Ethics?
This person leads all emergency response efforts at a hazardous site.
What is the Incident Commander?
This label identifies a substance that can cause cancer.
What is a carcinogen?
Loose clothing and hair should be secured to avoid this type of hazard.
What is entanglement?
This occurs when chemicals enter the body via eating or drinking.
What is ingestion?
This is what you should do if you notice existing unsafe conditions.
What is Speak Up?
HAZWOPER training is required for this kind of work.
What is hazardous material cleanup and response?
This abbreviation refers to the amount of a substance that will kill 50% of test animals.
What is LD50 or LC50?
This emergency device shuts off machines immediately if needed.
What is an emergency stop or E-stop button?
This route occurs through cuts or punctures from fibers or sharp tools.
What is injection?
These types of pollution are regulated by the EPA.
What are Air and Water?
HAZWOPER covers any of these things.
What is hazard identification, proper PPE use, or safe emergency response?
This category includes substances that affect genes and cause mutations.
What are mutagens?
This hazard occurs when parts of the body are caught between two objects.
What is a pinch point?
Wearing PPE helps prevent exposure through all of these routes.
What are the four routes of exposure?
Not taking shortcuts, being deceptive, or covering things up would be considered acting with this.
What is Integrity?