What establishes a single comprehensive national
incident management system (NIMS) and Presidential
Policy Directives? - ANSWER>>Homeland Security
Presidential Directives
What has the goal to secure and resilient nation with the
capabilities required across the whole community to
prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and
recover from the threats and hazards that pose the
greatest risk? - ANSWER>>Presidential Policy Directives
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, What law regulates labeling, shipping, and packing of
hazardous materials? - ANSWER>>Hazardous Materials
Transportation Act (1974)
What law created a manifest tracking system, and
established permit system for treatment, storage, and
disposal? - ANSWER>>Resource Conservation Recovery
Act (1976)
What law is known as a superfund, and made responsible
parties pay for cleanup of scenes, and created a
notification system for spills? -
ANSWER>>Comprehensive Environmental Response
Compensation Liability Act (1980)
What law required OSHA to develop health and safety
standards that eventually brought about 29 CFR
1910.120 Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency
Response (HAZWOPER)? - ANSWER>>Superfund
Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title 1
What law is also known as the emergency planning and
community right to know act and created state
emergency response commission and local emergency
planning committees? - ANSWER>>Superfund
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Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title 3
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, What law requires facilities to submit an emergency and
hazardous chemical inventory to SERC, LEPC, and local
fire departments? - ANSWER>>Superfund Amendments
and Reauthorization Act (SARA) Title 3
What NFPA standard covers competencies for first
responders dealing with Hazmat operations? -
ANSWER>>NFPA 472
What is a plan that should be consistent with local
emergency response plan and within the capabilities and
training level of the team, and trained on and examined
and updated frequently? - ANSWER>>Standard
Operation Guideline (SOG)
What is the 5 step process for hazardous materials
incidents? - ANSWER>>Isolate, Identify, Notify, Mitigate,
Terminate
What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident
do you deny access, control egress, stage incoming
companies, and establish hazard zones after gathering
information? - ANSWER>>Isolate
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, What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident
do you find the occupancy and location, container shapes
and sizes, markings and colors, placards and labels,
shipping papers/MSDS, monitoring/senses, and find the
principle responsible party? - ANSWER>>Identify
What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident
do you get more personnel, get more equipment, and
get outside agencies to come help? - ANSWER>>Notify
What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident
do you have non-intervention approach, offensive
approach, and defensive approach? - ANSWER>>Mitigate
What step in the 5 steps of hazardous materials incident
do you debrief, document, do medical evaluations,
recover costs, replace equipment, and critique? -
ANSWER>>Terminate
In what NFPA/EPA level of response can the incident be
controlled by the initial responding units? -
ANSWER>>Level 1
In what NFPA/EPA level of response there is moderate
incident that encompasses a greater potential threat to
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