Overview/General Principles

Question 1

Legislative base:

This Act covers the following:
• Governs the treatment, storage and disposal of all wastes.
• Environmentally safe handling of waste.

Answer 1

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

Question 2

What does DOT stand for?

Answer 2

Department Of Transportation

Question 3

What does EPA stand for?

Answer 3

Environmental Protection Agency

Question 4

What does OSHA stand for?

Answer 4

Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Question 5

Awareness level personnel shall receive training to meet applicable United States _____, _____, and ______, and other appropriate state, local, or provincial occupational health and safety regulatory requirements.

Answer 5

Department of Transportation (DOT), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

Question 6

An awareness level responder who is analyzing an incident will collect hazard information from the current edition of the _______________________ (ERG).

Answer 6

Emergency Response Guidebook

Question 7

This protective action is where awareness level personnel must set perimeters and zones using the ERG. Deny entry to the contaminated area and assist in the evacuation of the effected area.

Answer 7

Isolation

Question 8

This protective action is where awareness level personnel must initiate the Incident Command System, ensuring the protection of responders and the public. Awareness level personnel must also initiate a non-intervention response.

Answer 8

Protection

Question 9

Persons who, in the course of their normal duties, could encounter an emergency involving hazardous materials/WMD and who are expected to recognize/detect the presence of the hazmat/WMD, protect themselves, call for trained personnel, and secure the area.

Answer 9

What is an awareness level responder?

Question 10

What four things are awareness level responders expected to be able to do?

Answer 10

1. DETECT/RECOGNIZE the presence of hazmat/WMD
2. PROTECT themselves
3. CALL for trained personnel
4. SECURE the area.

Question 11

What three tasks are completed when analyzing the incident to determine the hazmat/WMD present and the basic hazard response?

Answer 11

1. DETECT the presence of hazmat/WMD
2. SURVEY the incident from a safe location
3. COLLECT hazard info from the ERG

Question 12

When analyzing the incident, what task requires you to be at a safe distance, to identify the name, UN/NA identification number, or type placard, or other distinctive marking applied for the hazmat/WMD involved?

Answer 12

Survey

Question 13

When analyzing the incident, what task requires you to use the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG)?

Answer 13

Collect

Question 14

What are the two protective actions that hazmat responders initiate at an incident?

Answer 14

Isolation and protection

Question 15

True or False:

When using the ERG for an incident, isolation and protection info is found in the green pages of the ERG?

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Which protective action requires awareness level personnel to set perimeters and zones using the ERG, deny entry to the contaminated area, and assist in the evacuation of the affected area?

Answer 16

Isolation

Question 17

Which protective action requires awareness level personnel to initiate the Incident Command System, ensuring the protection of responders and the public? Awareness level personnel must also initiate a non-intervention response.

Answer 17

Protection