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1
Q

For first responders, a hazardous materials can be defined as anything that can harm –, –, or the –.

PPE

A

People
Property
Environment

2
Q

Whose responsibility is to provide guidelines for the safe storage, transport, and use of a material.

A

Regulatory agencies

3
Q

Who gives rise to the terms such as hazardous material, hazardous chemical, hazardous substance, and hazardous waste.

A

Governmental regulatory

Agencies

4
Q

What are the five forms of a hazardous material?

A
Solid
Liquid
Gas
Vapor
Mist
Dust
5
Q

— from liquids and — from solids can create potential inhalation and fire hazards, sometimes far from the source of the release.

A

Vapors

Dusts

6
Q
  • MSDS
  • Contacts with a chemical manufacturer shipper
  • local, state, and federal regulatory agencies
  • medical professionals(especially those from Government health departments
  • poison control centers

Can all be used to evaluate what?

A

hazardous characteristics of a material.

7
Q

The persons responsible for the release of any material or those who are in possession of the container from which the release originated are usually referred to as the:

A

Responsible party

8
Q

Who are the ones who will likely be held responsible if a decision that a material is not hazardous goes bad, not the responsible party..

A

First responders

9
Q

An — is a sudden, violent release of mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy from a confined region.

A

Explosion

10
Q

Hazards related to this class include being under pressure, flammable, unstable, toxic, corrosive, and oxidizing agents.

A

Compressed gases

11
Q

What is the controlling factor in considering flash point?

A

The temperature of the liquid itself.

12
Q

Some — may be water reactive.

A

Flammable solids

13
Q

There may even be very violent reactions when they are intimately mixed with ordinary combustible materials.

A

Oxidizers

14
Q

Because of — agents ability to provide oxygen when heated their hazard is greatly increased at higher temperatures.
Vs
Oxidizing agents readily decompose to yield oxygen when heated and therefore may:

A

Oxidizing

React easily with other hazardous materials

15
Q

A — is any substance that causes injury, illness, or death to living tissue by chemical activity.

A

Poison

These materials into the body and one of four ways:
Inhalation
Ingestion
Absorption thru the skin, and entry thru a wound

16
Q

Poisons enter the body and what four ways?

A

Inhalation
Ingestion
Absorption thru skin or wounds

17
Q

— involves particles traveling in wavelike motions

A

IONIZING radiation

Particles collide , removing the electron, thus creating an ion

18
Q

A — is any material that will attack and destroy by chemical action any living tissue with which it comes in contact

A

Corrosive

19
Q

This term means “The category of Hazard” assigned to a hazardous material.

A

Hazard Class

20
Q

“Precedence of hazard table” requires that only the primary hazard class to be displayed.

Only in limited circumstances will information on — hazards be displayed.

A

Subsidiary

21
Q

These materials are those “which present a hazard during transportation but do not meet the definition of any other hazard class”

(Ex: noxious flight crew member)

A

Class 9

22
Q

“OSHA hazard Communication “uses the term—-Which is defined as: “any chemical which is a physical hazard or health hazard”

A

Hazardous chemical

23
Q

Therefore, an employer at a fixed facility is not required by the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard to provide a first responder with a —, since he is not an employee of that facility.

A

MSDS

24
Q

“OSHA hazardous waste operations and emergency response”

includes training standards for first responders as well as requirements for on-scene emergency operations, and uses the term—.

A

Hazardous substance

25
Q

Under the — , owners or operators of facilities that use certain chemicals are required to submit copies of MSDS to local emergency planning committees and fire departments with jurisdiction for the facility.

A

Emergency planning and community right to know act

26
Q

Defined exposure limits and research on effects of exposures to chemicals can change how often?

A

During the course of several years

27
Q

CFR governing transportation defines gasoline as what when transported in commerce?

A

Flammable liquid

28
Q

What regulatory agency governs transportation?

A

The code of federal regulations

29
Q

Who assigns hazards classes and their associated class number?

A

Federal transportation regulations

30
Q

What hazardous material can destroy living tissue as well as readily decompose and yield oxygen?

A

Corrosives

31
Q

OSHA Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response

does what?

A
  • Emergency response ops of haz. “Substances” without regard to the location of the hazard.
  • uses the term: hazardous substance
  • training standard for first responders
  • requirements for on-scene emergency operations
32
Q

The EPCRA

Does what?

A
  • MSDS to FD’s
  • uses the term hazardous chemical BUT adds exceptions to the definition

(There’s like 4 long definition exceptions)

33
Q

Who determines if a material that is RELEASED from its container has the potential to harm themselves or the community?

A

First responders

34
Q

In addition, products that meet multiple definitions for hazardous materials may be regulated only on the basis of what a regulatory agency defined as the:

A

Highest priority

35
Q

Whether regulations govern transportation or the workplace, the — used for hazardous materials will influence the FORMAT as well as the AMOUNT of information made available to first responders.

A

Legal definition