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Hazmat Operations Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass 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 ta...

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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




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,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


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,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




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, 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

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