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HAZMAT Final Exam Questions and Answers, Exams of Engineering

A comprehensive set of questions and answers covering key concepts in hazmat response. It covers topics such as nfpa standards, hazmat training levels, chemical properties, exposure standards, incident command system, and decontamination procedures. Valuable for students and professionals seeking to enhance their knowledge and understanding of hazmat safety and response.

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HAZMAT FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH THE LATEST AND
UPDATED SCORE.
1) What is the NFPA standard for training Hazmat response team members? -- Answer
โœ”โœ” NFPA 472
2) What type of Hazmat guidance is developed by groups of professional organizations?
-- Answer โœ”โœ” Voluntary Consensus Standards
3) At what level of Hazmat training will an individual use an ERG? -- Answer โœ”โœ”
Awareness Level
4) A document that describes physical and chemical properties, health and safety
hazards, and emergency response tactics for a given chemical -- Answer โœ”โœ” Safety
Data Sheet (SDS)
5) Primary federal law that deals with the communities right to know about chemicals
stored at facilities -- Answer โœ”โœ” SARA Title 3
6) Which federal agency enforces the requirements of 29 CFR 1910.120? -- Answer
โœ”โœ” OSHA
7) At which Hazmat level do you use tools or equipment to stop a leak? -- Answer โœ”โœ”
Technician
8) What is an acute effect? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Signs or symptoms that appear in the first
24-48 hours
9) What is the most common route of exposure? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Inhalation
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HAZMAT FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH THE LATEST AND

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  1. What is the NFPA standard for training Hazmat response team members? -- Answer โœ”โœ” NFPA 472
  2. What type of Hazmat guidance is developed by groups of professional organizations? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Voluntary Consensus Standards
  3. At what level of Hazmat training will an individual use an ERG? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Awareness Level
  4. A document that describes physical and chemical properties, health and safety hazards, and emergency response tactics for a given chemical -- Answer โœ”โœ” Safety Data Sheet (SDS)
  5. Primary federal law that deals with the communities right to know about chemicals stored at facilities -- Answer โœ”โœ” SARA Title 3
  6. Which federal agency enforces the requirements of 29 CFR 1910.120? -- Answer โœ”โœ” OSHA
  7. At which Hazmat level do you use tools or equipment to stop a leak? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Technician
  8. What is an acute effect? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Signs or symptoms that appear in the first 24 - 48 hours
  9. What is the most common route of exposure? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Inhalation
  1. Event where there is an explosion that sends blast fragments and shock waves -- Answer โœ”โœ” Mechanical Hazard
  2. How many hours of exposure can a person be exposed to a chemical before exceeding the TWA? -- Answer โœ”โœ” 8 Hours
  3. What percentage of LEL is considered an IDLH atmosphere? -- Answer โœ”โœ” 10%
  4. What type of radiation is primarily an internal hazard and can be stopped by a sheet of paper? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Alpha
  5. What type of heat stress is a severe medical emergency? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Heat Stroke
  6. How many personnel must be available to assist a rescue team at a MINIMUM? -- Answer โœ”โœ” 2
  7. What is chronic exposure? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Repeated many times over a career
  8. Which of the exposure standards is not commonly used by Hazmat responders? -- Answer โœ”โœ” LC
  9. Who is responsible for the personnel who attempt to remove any residue of hazardous materials from the entry team? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Decon Team Leader
  10. Who is responsible for supervising the backup team? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Entry Team Leader
  11. Who gathers and analyzes data to support the incident commander? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Research Team
  12. Who makes up the general staff in an ICS organization? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Chiefs of operations, planning, logistics, and finance.
  13. What is the span of control? -- Answer โœ”โœ” The number of people that one can effectively supervise
  1. What type of evacuation is done to 1 or 2 buildings or to a building with a few floors? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Limited scale evacuation
  2. Which is not a critical consideration for large scale evacuation? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Age of the responders
  3. What is the spot in the hot zone where personnel are controlled until they can be decontaminated, treated, or removed? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Area of refuge
  4. Which is a primary consideration for determining the location of the warm zone? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Close enough to the hot zone where the entry team gets low on air but far enough away to minimize exposure
  5. What is the first clue responders should consider when attempting to identify the problem? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Occupancy and location of the incident
  6. The tank truck that carries fuels and is oval shaped -- Answer โœ”โœ” MC
  7. The tank truck that ships corrosives and has outer visible stiffening rings -- Answer โœ”โœ” DOT
  8. Where on a railroad tank car is the capacity stencil? -- Answer โœ”โœ” On either end
  9. Capacity of non pressure tank car ranges from what? -- Answer โœ”โœ” 4,000-45, gallons
  10. What is a clue that a tank contains pressurized cargo? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Has rounded shape
  11. What is a label? -- Answer โœ”โœ” 4 inch colored information tag on individual packages
  12. What type of shipping papers are found on railroads? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Waybills or consist
  13. What Hazmat clue is the most dangerous to use? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Your senses
  1. What type of commodity is shipped in excepted packages? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Radioactives
  2. What type of tank may have a capacity of up to 500,000 barrels? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Open floating roof tank
  3. What type of commodity is stored in dewars containers? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Flammable and non-flammable cryogenic liquid
  4. What are marking systems used at fixed facilities but not transit? -- Answer โœ”โœ” NFPA
  5. How does vapor pressure of a substance affect potential response? -- Answer โœ”โœ” It affects how rapidly a substance changes from liquid to gas
  6. The name of the plume model software the maps -- Answer โœ”โœ” MARPLOT
  7. What information is critical for users of direct reading instruments? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Correction factors
  8. What type of chemicals can be detected using a PID? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Organics and some inorganics
  9. Which is a factor when using a hose to sample tanks or confined space? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Instrument response time
  10. What 2 hazards are metered simultaneously, as common sensors require one of these compounds to work correctly? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Oxygen inflammability
  11. Effective employee health programs -- Answer โœ”โœ” Medical surveillance program
  12. Which underground feature must still be identified and protected? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Aquifers
  1. What occurs when a person who is already contaminated makes contact with a person that was not previously contaminated? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Secondary contamination
  2. Which of the following is viewed as being absorbed into a material at a molecular level? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Permeation
  3. Which is not a staffing position within the hazmat group? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Hazmat staging unit
  4. Which is a flow or a movement of a hazardous chemical through closures, seams, pores materials, and pin holes or other imperfections in materials? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Penetration
  5. What is a physical destruction or decomposition of a clothing material due to exposure of chemicals, use, or ambient conditions? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Degradation
  6. What is a physical process of immediately reducing contamination of individuals in potentially life threatening situations? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Emergency decon
  7. What is the planned and systematic process of reducing contamination to a level as low as reasonably achievable? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Technical decon
  8. What is the process of altering the chemical structure of the containment through the use of a second chemical or material? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Chemical degradation
  9. What is considered an unplanned event that can exceed the capabilities of local response agencies? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Crisis
  10. What is not considered a common method of exposure? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Physical
  11. What is not a method for assessing the effectiveness of decontamination? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Signs and symptoms
  1. What hazard class is a common content for non bulk packaging convoys? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Corrosives
  2. What information source includes chemtrek, canutech, CDC, and poison control centers? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Technical information centers
  3. What involves the use of electric or nematic devices to collect a containment? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Vacuuming
  4. What is not a federal regulation pertaining to reporting requirements of a hazmat incident? -- Answer โœ”โœ” NFPA
  5. What cargo tank has a single compartment, cylindrical steel tank, numerous safety features, and carries liquified gases such as propane? -- Answer โœ”โœ” MC
  6. What best describes site management and control functions? -- Answer โœ”โœ” To establish a playing field so all subsequent response operations can be implemented safely and effectively
  7. Which air purifying respirator uses a blower to force ambient air through air purifying elements into a full facemask? -- Answer โœ”โœ” PAPR
  8. Which event in general hazmat behavior model occurs after a breach and allows the hazardous material to escape in the form of energy, matter, or a combo of both? -- Answer โœ”โœ” A release
  9. Which function in hazmat groups is responsible for all operations within the hot zone to include recon, monitoring, sampling, and mitigation? -- Answer โœ”โœ” Entry/backup
  10. Government agency defining packaging -- Answer โœ”โœ” DOT
  11. When conducting operations in a confined space what percentage of flammable vapors is considered within safe limits of conducting rescue operations? -- Answer โœ”โœ” 10%