HazMat Awareness - total force vlc
1. What is your responsibility when analyzing a hazardous materials incident at the Awareness level?
Correct answer: Recognizing the presence of hazardous materials.
2. What are your four main responsibilities at the Awareness level?
Correct answer: Call f...
1. What is your responsibility when analyzing a hazardous materials incident at the Awareness level?
Correct answer: Recognizing the presence of hazardous materials.
2. 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.
3. What is the DOT class for radioactive materials?
Correct answer: Class 7.
4. What type of material is classified as Class 8 in the DOT hazard classification system?
Correct answer: Corrosive materials.
5. What information can you determine using the DOT hazard classification system?
Correct answer: The color of the label or placard.
6. Where can you find shipping papers when hazardous materials are being transported by rail?
Correct answer: With the conductor or engineer.
7. Who is responsible for having shipping papers on a ship carrying hazardous cargo?
, Correct answer: The captain.
8. What information should always be printed on a pipeline warning sign?
Correct answer: Ownership of the pipeline, emergency phone number, and information about the
pipeline contents.
9. What does the symbol indicate?
Correct answer: Fragmentation hazard.
10. What are sensory clues that you can use to recognize the presence of a hazardous material?
Correct answer: All except looking in the health hazard section of the SDS.
11. What is one limitation of using your senses to determine the presence of a hazardous material?
Correct answer: If you are close enough to sense hazardous materials, you may have already
endangered yourself.
12. Where can you find the names of hazardous materials at a fixed facility?
Correct answer: SDS and emergency planning documents.
13. How can a corrosive material harm people, property, or the environment?
Correct answer: By destroying body tissue on contact.
14. How can using your sense of smell to identify a hazardous material put you at risk of exposure?
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