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Some Like it Hot
Thats a Heavy Load
Is it Black or White?
Because it's the Law
Bubbles
100

A Placard that has this 3 in the bottom corner of it is for this kind of material.

What are Flammable Liquids?

100

This document holds a master list of the train cars and their contents.

What is Train Consist?

100

This placard colour is used to show that the product can react violently, or as an oxidizer.

What is Yellow?

100

This Four Digit Identification Number is on an Orange, rectangular placard.

What is the UN number?

100

This concentrate is proportioned and added to water to blanket flammable or combustible liquids.

What is Class B Foam?

200
This orange placard has 6 divisions, each denoting a different level of hazard and reactivity.

What are Explosives?

200

This page or booklet contains all the safety information about a product, including first aid and emergency response measures.

What is Safety Data Sheet?

200
The colour of this page in the ERG, which gives safe distances from a container, based on size, when a BLEVE is going to happen.

What is White?

200

The NFPA standard contains the Qualifications for a Hazardous Materials Responder.

What is NFPA 470?

200
Most Commonly used Foam in the fire service. Detergent based foam.
What is Aqueous Film Forming Foam?
300

Don't use water! This colour placard means the product may react violently with water.

What is a Blue Placard

300

This trailer will always have at least a green placard, as it can only haul that type of material.

What is a Tube Trailer?

300
NFPA 704 is composed of these colors:
What is Blue, Red, Yellow, and White?
300

This is the Regulatory Body in Canada for the transportation of dangerous goods.

What is Transport Canada

300

This method is best used with AFFF foams, where spraying the foam in the air above the product allows the foam bubbles to burst, and meld together to form a film over the fluid

What is Rain-Down Method
400

This system ranks a products health hazard, flammability, and instability on a scale of 0 - 4, as well as denotes special hazards like water reactive or oxidizer.

What is NFPA 704?

400

This type of container is used to transport Hazard Class 8 materials down the highway.

What is Corrosive liquid tank?

400
This colour page of the ERG contains a table for what toxic gas is created when a chemical is mixed with water.

What is Green?

400
The minimum weight of hazardous materials being transported, which requires the UN identification number being posted on the container.
What is 8,802 lbs (4000kg)?
400

AR-AFFF foam is designed to work on these types of chemicals, where normal Class B foams wouldn't.

What are water miscible materials? (Alcohols, esters, or keytones)

500

This type of ionizing radiation have a physical mass with no electric charge, and can pass through thick layers of most materials, often released as a bi-product of Fission.

What is Neutron Radiation?

500
Type of container used to transport refrigerated liquids ( hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen) down the railway.
What is Cryogenic Liquid Tank Car?
500

ANSI Z535.1 uses this color to identify Warning.

What is Orange?

500

This chemical, which was used until the 80's in capacitors and transformers, requires its own very specific label, identifying it as a Schedule 1 toxic chemical, and if found, to contact Environment Canada (Canada) or the Coast Guard National Response Center (USA).

What is PCB? (Polycholorinated Biphenyls)

500

This foam, used most commonly in industrial settings and aircraft hangars, has an expansion ratio of 200:1 when aerated. 

What is High Expansion Foam?