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What is an Operations Level Responder? - ✔✔Person who respond to HazMat/WMD incidents for the
purpose of implementing or supporting actions to protect nearby persons, the environment, or property
from the effects. Are NOT used in offensive tactics, but on defensive.

What tasks will an operational level responder be expected to perform? - ✔✔Analyze, plan, implement,
evaluate

Analyze: to determine the scope and potential outcomes by surveying, collecting info, predicting
behavior

Plan: describing the response objective, options, emergency decontamination procedure, developing a
plan of action including safety considerations

Implement: preservation of evidence, initiating an incident command system.

Evaluate: by evaluation and communicating the status of the response.

The operations level responder would work under who? - ✔✔HazMat Technician

Written guidance or stander operating procedure will state what? - ✔✔The rules of engagement

Under What CFR is DOT? - ✔✔49CFR170.199

Under What CFR is OSHA? - ✔✔29CFR 1910.1209

Under what CFR is EPA? - ✔✔40CFR 311

What are the two primary types of containers? - ✔✔the ones used for transport and those used for
storage

,What conditions need to be assessed for a thorough survey of the scene? - ✔✔Topography

land use-commercial, residential

accessibility - roads, bridges, wooded areas

weather conditions

bodies of water

public exposure potential

over head and underground wires and pipe lines

storm and sewer drains

possible ignition sources

adjacent land use - rail lines, highways and airports

nature and extent of injuries

building information - floor drains and ventilation

Ways to verify information obtained from the Survey Hazardous Material Incident - ✔✔ERG

contact Chemtrec

contact shippers

where can you find additional references to obtain information already received - ✔✔shipper/owner

electronic database

other references

incident involving criminal or terrorist activity - ✔✔Secondary events intended to incapacitate or delay
emergency responders

armed resistance

use of weapons

booby traps

secondary contamination from handling patients

possible indicators: vegetation discoloration, sudden onset of casualties, unexplained vapors and odors

,In the fire protection handbook, the information to be collected is divided into six basic group -
✔✔material ID info

physical property

chemical property

physical hazards

health hazards

response information

What does collecting the information allows the operations level responder? - ✔✔determine the
defensive options that can be performed safely, given the personnel and equipment available

how are haz mat classified? - ✔✔According to their primary danger and assigned standardized symbols
to ID the class/division

Class 1 - ✔✔Explosive

Class 1 Major Hazard - ✔✔Explosion

Class 1 Definition - ✔✔any substance or article, including a device that is designed to function by
explosion or that by chemical reaction within itself, is able to function by explosion

Division 1.1 - ✔✔Mass Explosion hazard - mass explosion is one that affects almost the entire load
instantly

example - black powder, dynamite, TNT

Division 1.2 - ✔✔Projection hazard - but not mass explosion

example - aerial flares, detonation cord, power device cartridges

Division 1.3 - ✔✔Fire hazard, minor blast hazard , minor projection hazard, NO mass explosion

, example - liquid fueled rocket motors, propellant explosive

Division 1.4 - ✔✔Minor explosion hazard (no more than 25 grams of detonating material)

example - practice ammo, signal cartridges

Division 1.5 - ✔✔Very insensitive explosive with mass explosion hazard - under normal conditions

example - prilled ammonium nitrate fertilizers, fuel oil mix

Division 1.6 - ✔✔Extremely insensitive no mass explosive hazard

example: squib device ( small explosive with considerably less explosive power

Class 1 placard - ✔✔orange placard with bursting ball

Class 2 - ✔✔Compressed gas

Class 2 Major Hazard - ✔✔BLEVE

What is BLEVE - ✔✔Boiling Liquid expanding vapor explosion

Division 2.1 - ✔✔Flammable Gas - boiling point of 68F or less and that is ignitable when a mixture of
13% or less by volume with air

ex - propane, methyl chloride

Division 2.1 placard - ✔✔red background with white flame

Division 2.2 - ✔✔non flammable, non poisonous gas -

ex - carbon dioxide, compressed nitrogen, anhydrous ammonia

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