Hazard Awareness Final
1. What is the basis for determining the Initial Protective Action Distance for a material involved in an
incident?
Correct answer: The time of day.
2. What type of protective action requires keeping everyone away from the incident area?
Correct answer: Isolating th...
1. What is the basis for determining the Initial Protective Action Distance for a material involved in an
incident?
Correct answer: The time of day.
2. What type of protective action requires keeping everyone away from the incident area?
Correct answer: Isolating the area and denying entry.
3. Where can you find information about a material's health hazards?
Correct answer: In the Potential Hazard area of the orange guide pages in the ERG.
4. What is the classification for a material that is a flammable solid?
Correct answer: Class 4.1.
5. What should you do if there is a contamination risk and you need to provide first aid to a victim?
Correct answer: Ensure the victim has been decontaminated.
6. Which organizations' local, state, and federal requirements do you need to comply with at the
HazMat Awareness level?
Correct answer: OSHA, DOT, and EPA.
7. What are your four main responsibilities at the Awareness level?
, Correct answer: Call for trained personnel, recognize the presence of hazardous materials, protect
yourself, and secure the area.
8. What type of explosive material has a fire hazard but no mass explosion hazard?
Correct answer: Division 3.
9. What type of material is found in DOT Class 2, Division 2?
Correct answer: Liquefied gas.
10. How can you determine certain hazards using the DOT hazard classification system?
Correct answer: By looking at the color of the label or placard.
To find the appropriate guide page within the Emergency Response Guidebook, you must: ✔️A. use the
four-digit identification number or product name of the material
Identify THREE types of hazard information found in the orange section of the Emergency Response
Guidebook. ✔️A. fire and explosion hazards
B. protective clothing to wear
C. spill or leak response actions
Identify the Emergency Response Guidebook that is opened to the section that lists the UN/NA numbers
in order. ✔️Yellow and green label
Terrorists have been known to use compact sedans as IEDs. Using the attached ERG, determine the
outdoor evacuation distance for a compact sedan IED. Select the ERG to look up the correct answer.
✔️A. 1,500 feet.
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