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Resources available to evaluate the hazardous characteristics of a material:

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MSDS
Contacts with a chemical manufacture or shipper
Representatives from local, state, and federal agency

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Responsible Party:

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The persons responsible for the release of any material or those who are in possession of a container which the release originates

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All materials that could potentially harm people, property, or the environment:

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Hazardous materials

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Violent release of mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy from a confined region:

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Explosives

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Under pressure, flammable, unstable, toxic, corrosive, and oxidizing:

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Compressed gases

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A liquid with a flash point below 100F and A liquid with a flash point above 100F

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Flammable and Combustible liquids

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Any solid material, other than an explosive, that is likely to cause fire through friction or retained heat from manufacturing or processing, or that can be readily ignited:

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Flammable Solid

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A substance that yields oxygen, readily decomposes to yield oxygen when heated and therefore may react easily with other hazardous material:

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Oxiders

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A substance that causes injury, illness, or death to living tissue by chemical activity:

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Poisons

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Particles traveling in wavelike motions.

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Radioactive material

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Any material that will attack and destroy by chemical action any living tissue with which it comes in contact.

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Corrosives

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“A substance or material that the Secretary of Transportation has determined is capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, and property when transported in commerce”

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49 CFR 171.8 defines Hazardous Material

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“the category of hazard assigned to a hazardous material”

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49 CFR 171.8 Hazard Class

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Hazard Class 1

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Explosives

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Hazard Class 2

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Gases

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Hazard Class 3

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Flammable and Combustible liquids

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Hazard Class4

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Flammable solids, spontaneously combustible material, dangerous when went

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Hazard Class 5

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Oxidizers

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Hazard Class 6

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Poisons material and infectious substance

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Hazard Class 7

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Radioactive material

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Hazard Class 8

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Corrosives material

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Hazard Class 9

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Miscellaneous hazardous material

23
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A material may meet the defining criteria for more than one hazard class, but is assigned to only one hazard class.

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Predetermine criterion known as Precedence of Hazard Table, 49 CFR 173.1

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The assigned class is also referred to as the

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Primary Hazard, additional dangers are referred as subsidiary hazards

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The Occupation Safety and Health Administration Standard 29 CFR 1910.1200 entitled “Hazardous Communication” uses the term: Hazardous Chemical

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As any chemical which is a physical hazard or health hazard

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“Chemicals for which there is significantly valid evidence that combustible liquid, compress gases, explosive, flammable, organic peroxide, an oxidizer, pyrophoric, unstable or water reactive”

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Physical Hazard

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“Chemical for which there are statically significant evidence based on at least one study conducted established scientific principles that acute or chronic health effects may occur in exposed employees”

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Health Hazard

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Applies to “any chemical which is known to be present n the workplace in such that employees may be exposed under normal conditions of use or in a foreseeable emergency”

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29 CFR 1910.1200

29
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An Employer at a fixed facility is not required by OSHA Hazard Communication Standard to provide a ______- ____ with ______, since he is not an employee of that facility.

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First Responder

MSDS

30
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Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response

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29 CFR 1910.120

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Any substance listed by the US Department of Transportation as hazardous material in 49 CFR 172.101, includes only those materials which DOT as has designated as hazardous materials for the purpose of transportation.

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Hazardous Substance

32
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Under the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA), owners or operators of facilities that use certain chemicals are required to submit copies of ______ to the local emergency planning committees and ____ _____ with jurisdiction for the facility. This law uses the term _______ ______.

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MSDS
Fire Departments
Hazardous Chemical

33
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First Responders “who respond to releases or potential releases of hazardous substances as part of initial response to the site for the purpose of protecting nearby persons, property, or the environment from effects of the release”

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Operations level

34
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Responders “who are likely to witness or discover a hazardous substance release and who have been trained to initiate an emergency response sequence by notifying proper authorities of the release”

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Awareness Level

35
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Individuals who are trained to “respond to releases or potential releases for the purpose of stopping the release. They assume a more aggressive role than a first responder at the operations level”

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Technician

36
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Those who “respond with and provide support to hazardous material technicians”

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Specialist

37
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Important actions a first responder must do from a safe distance:

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  • Identify the materials involved and assessing potential harm
  • Isolate affected areas ands deny entry
  • Account for all personnel who may have been exposed
  • Provide medical care and decon those exposed
  • Protect persons from potential exposure
38
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Three distinct steps of material cleanup:

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Removal of the waste material
Disposal of the waste material
Restoration of the waste material

39
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Factors that must be considered when exposures in proximity to the scene could adversely be affected by a chemical release:

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Population density 
Location of highways
Waterways 
Railroads
Environmentally sensitive areas
40
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Hazardous material release can migrate in several way :

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Downhill on a slope, especially on hard paved surfaces
Seepage underground on a soft surface
Liquids or solids entering body of water or sewer system
Vapors, gases, mist, and dust affected by air currents

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