General

Question 1

What are substances determined by the Secretary of Transportation to be capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, and property when transported in commerce?

Answer 1

Hazardous Materials

Question 2

What are dividers or walls inside a tanker that moderates the movement of liquid from surging?

Answer 2

Baffles

Question 3

What is a subdivision of a hazard class called?

Answer 3

Division

Question 4

What is a Hazard Label?

Answer 4

A 4”x4” diamond identification affixed to packings of hazmat that represents the contents within through the use of specific colors or symbols

Question 5

What is an ORM-D material

Answer 5

A material regulated for domestic transport only.

Question 6

What is a packing group?

Answer 6

A grouping of hazardous materials according to the degree of danger posed by them

Question 7

What is a placard?

Answer 7

A 10”x10” diamond identification that represents the contents within through the use of specific colors or symbols

Question 8

What is the hazard class of a material as assigned on the hazmat table called?

Answer 8

The Primary Hazard

Question 9

What is a hazard other than the Primary Hazard that poses less of a risk called?

Answer 9

The Subsidiary Hazard

Question 10

What is an Outage?

Answer 10

The allowance of liquid expansion due to changes in temperature

Question 11

What is the movement of liquid in partially filled tanks called

Answer 11

Surge or Slosh