Chp2

Question 1

For first responders, a hazardous materials can be defined as anything that can harm –, –, or the –.

PPE

Answer 1

People
Property
Environment

Question 2

Whose responsibility is to provide guidelines for the safe storage, transport, and use of a material.

Answer 2

Regulatory agencies

Question 3

Who gives rise to the terms such as hazardous material, hazardous chemical, hazardous substance, and hazardous waste.

Answer 3

Governmental regulatory

Agencies

Question 4

What are the five forms of a hazardous material?

Answer 4

Solid
Liquid
Gas
Vapor
Mist
Dust

Question 5

— from liquids and — from solids can create potential inhalation and fire hazards, sometimes far from the source of the release.

Answer 5

Vapors

Dusts

Question 6

• MSDS
• Contacts with a chemical manufacturer shipper
• local, state, and federal regulatory agencies
• medical professionals(especially those from Government health departments
• poison control centers

Can all be used to evaluate what?

Answer 6

hazardous characteristics of a material.

Question 7

The persons responsible for the release of any material or those who are in possession of the container from which the release originated are usually referred to as the:

Answer 7

Responsible party

Question 8

Who are the ones who will likely be held responsible if a decision that a material is not hazardous goes bad, not the responsible party..

Answer 8

First responders

Question 9

An — is a sudden, violent release of mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy from a confined region.

Answer 9

Explosion

Question 10

Hazards related to this class include being under pressure, flammable, unstable, toxic, corrosive, and oxidizing agents.

Answer 10

Compressed gases

Question 11

What is the controlling factor in considering flash point?

Answer 11

The temperature of the liquid itself.

Question 12

Some — may be water reactive.

Answer 12

Flammable solids

Question 13

There may even be very violent reactions when they are intimately mixed with ordinary combustible materials.

Answer 13

Oxidizers

Question 14

Because of — agents ability to provide oxygen when heated their hazard is greatly increased at higher temperatures.
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Oxidizing agents readily decompose to yield oxygen when heated and therefore may:

Answer 14

Oxidizing

React easily with other hazardous materials

Question 15

A — is any substance that causes injury, illness, or death to living tissue by chemical activity.

Answer 15

Poison

These materials into the body and one of four ways:
Inhalation
Ingestion
Absorption thru the skin, and entry thru a wound

Question 16

Poisons enter the body and what four ways?

Answer 16

Inhalation
Ingestion
Absorption thru skin or wounds

Question 17

— involves particles traveling in wavelike motions

Answer 17

IONIZING radiation

Particles collide , removing the electron, thus creating an ion

Question 18

A — is any material that will attack and destroy by chemical action any living tissue with which it comes in contact

Answer 18

Corrosive

Question 19

This term means “The category of Hazard” assigned to a hazardous material.

Answer 19

Hazard Class

Question 20

“Precedence of hazard table” requires that only the primary hazard class to be displayed.

Only in limited circumstances will information on — hazards be displayed.

Answer 20

Subsidiary

Question 21

These materials are those “which present a hazard during transportation but do not meet the definition of any other hazard class”

(Ex: noxious flight crew member)

Answer 21

Class 9

Question 22

“OSHA hazard Communication “uses the term—-Which is defined as: “any chemical which is a physical hazard or health hazard”

Answer 22

Hazardous chemical

Question 23

Therefore, an employer at a fixed facility is not required by the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard to provide a first responder with a —, since he is not an employee of that facility.

Answer 23

MSDS

Question 24

“OSHA hazardous waste operations and emergency response”

includes training standards for first responders as well as requirements for on-scene emergency operations, and uses the term—.

Answer 24

Hazardous substance

Question 25

Under the — , owners or operators of facilities that use certain chemicals are required to submit copies of MSDS to local emergency planning committees and fire departments with jurisdiction for the facility.

Answer 25

Emergency planning and community right to know act

Question 26

Defined exposure limits and research on effects of exposures to chemicals can change how often?

Answer 26

During the course of several years

Question 27

CFR governing transportation defines gasoline as what when transported in commerce?

Answer 27

Flammable liquid

Question 28

What regulatory agency governs transportation?

Answer 28

The code of federal regulations

Question 29

Who assigns hazards classes and their associated class number?

Answer 29

Federal transportation regulations

Question 30

What hazardous material can destroy living tissue as well as readily decompose and yield oxygen?

Answer 30

Corrosives

Question 31

OSHA Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response

does what?

Answer 31

• Emergency response ops of haz. “Substances” without regard to the location of the hazard.
• uses the term: hazardous substance
• training standard for first responders
• requirements for on-scene emergency operations

Question 32

The EPCRA

Does what?

Answer 32

• MSDS to FD’s
• uses the term hazardous chemical BUT adds exceptions to the definition

(There’s like 4 long definition exceptions)

Question 33

Who determines if a material that is RELEASED from its container has the potential to harm themselves or the community?

Answer 33

First responders

Question 34

In addition, products that meet multiple definitions for hazardous materials may be regulated only on the basis of what a regulatory agency defined as the:

Answer 34

Highest priority

Question 35

Whether regulations govern transportation or the workplace, the — used for hazardous materials will influence the FORMAT as well as the AMOUNT of information made available to first responders.

Answer 35

Legal definition