Recognition & Identification Flashcards
_______ are diamond shaped signs that generally must be affixed on each side and each end of vehicles carrying hazardous materials.
DOT placards
_______ and ________ help determine whether hazardous materials are stored, use, and transported in a community, and what emergency plans, if any, have been developed by the owners.
Pre-incident
Inspections
Placards general indicate the ________ – the most dangerous property – associated with the material being transported.
Primary hazard
________ placards may be used to indicate the secondary hazards of cargo
Subsidiary
________ include: explosives 1.1, explosives 1.2, explosives 1.3, poison gas, dangerous when wet, Poison, radioactive.
Table 1 materials
In general, all other classes of hazardous materials must be placard for bulk shipments of more than _______ pounds of that material.
1,000
The dangerous placard can be used if a shipment contains non-bulk packages of two or more Table 2 materials if the total amount of each class of material is less than ______ pounds loaded at one location.
5,000
________ are 4-inch diamonds affixed to non-bulk packages of hazardous materials.
DOT labels