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59 Cards in this Set
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The body that develops and maintains nationally recognized minimum consensus standards on many areas of fire safety and hazardous mateials |
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) |
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Any material that poses an unreasonable risk of damage or injury to persons, property, or the environment if not properly controlled
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Hazardous material
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A detailed profile of a single chemical or mixture of chemicals provided by the manufacturer or supplier of chemical |
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) |
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Any person who comes upon an incident and has been trained to recognize, identify and notify
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Awareness level
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A facility that presents a high potential for loss of life
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Target hazard
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Liaison between local and state levels of emergency response authorities |
State Emergency Response Commission (SERC) |
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Training that provides the ability to enter heavily contaminated areas using the highest levels of protection
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Technician level
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The impure substance left after manufacturing
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Hazardous waste
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Law that affects how fire departments respond in a hazardous materials emergency |
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) |
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A federal agency that regulates and governs issues relating to hazardous materials in the enviroment |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
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In the United States, which federal government agency enforces and publicizes laws and regulations that govern the transportation of goods by highways, rail and air? |
Department Of Transportation (DOT) |
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Which response level is trained to take offensive actions?
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Technician
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What material poses an unreasonable risk to health and safety of the public and/or the environment if it is not controlled properly during handling, processing, and disposal?
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Hazardous material
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Which is a state group that acts as a liaison between local and state level response authorities? |
State Emergency Response Commission (SERC) |
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Which response level is trained to take defensive actions?
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Operations
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What is a nongovernmental agency that issues fire response standards? |
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) |
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Which response level is trained to recognize a hazardous materials emergency and call for assistance?
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Awareness
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In the United States, what is the federal document containing the hazardous materials response competencies? |
Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) |
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What is a group that gathers information about hazardous materials and disseminates that information to the public? |
Local Emergency Planning Committe (LEPC) |
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What act requires a business that handles chemicals to report storage type, quantity, and storage methods to the fire department and the local emergency planning committee?
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Emergency Planning and Committee Right to Know
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What is the material that remains after manufacturing plant has used some chemicals and they are no longer pure?
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Hazardous waste
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What regulates and governs issues relating to hazardous materials in the environment? |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
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States that have adopted OSHA safety and health regulations
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State Plan states
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Federal document containing hazardous materials response competencies |
Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) |
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What are the awareness level skills? |
Recognize Identify Notify |
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What is the Standard for Competence of Responders to Hazardous Materials/Weapons of Mass Destruction Incidents?
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NFPA 472
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What is a detailed profile of a single chemical or mixture of chemicals provided by manufacturer and/or supplier of a chemical? |
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) |
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Who receives the most aggressive level of training as identified in NFPA 472?
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Hazardous materials officier
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What dictates the actions taken by hazardous materials incidents?
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Chemicals involved in incident
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What regulates and governs issues relating to hazardous materials and the environment? |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
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What is the EPA's version of HAZWOPER? |
Title 40 Protection of the Environment Part 311 Worker Safety |
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What acts as liaison between local and state levels of authority? |
State Emergency Response Commission (SERC) |
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What is the first laws to affect how fire departments respond in hazardous materials emergency? |
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) |
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Which person responds to hazardous materials of weapons of mass destruction who have received more specialized training than hazardous materials technicians?
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Specialist level
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What are group of members that gathers information on hazmat stored in community and ensures adequate local resources? |
Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) |
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What people respond to hazmat of wmd and support actions to protect nearby persons, environment and property?
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Operations level
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What OSHA regulation governs hazmat waste sites and response training? |
Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) |
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What actions should awareness level personnel take in incident?
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Notification of emergency/trained personnel
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What actions should operations level responders take in incident?
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Act in defensive fashion
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An incident has occurred in your community, which local committee would have an impact on your pre-planning and knowledge of this facility? |
Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) |
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In almost any incident involving hazardous materials, structural fighting gear does ________ provide an adequate level of chemical protection.
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In almost any incident involving hazardous materials, structural fighting gear does NOT provide an adequate level of chemical protection.
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Under both the DOT definition and the working definition, a hazardous material can be almost __________________ and can be found __________________.
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Under both the DOT definition and the working definition, a hazardous material can be almost ANYTHING and can be found ANYWHERE.
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What is a potentially harmful by product or reside that remains after a manufacturing process?
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Hazardous waste
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What are issued and enforced by governmental bodies such as OSHA and EPA?
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Regulations
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What are issued by nongovernmental entities and are generally consensus based?
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Standards
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What consensus organization issue standards that the public and other interested parties comment on before committee members agree to adopt them? |
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) |
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What are the federal regulations detailing the hazardous materials response competencies? |
Hazardous Waste Operations Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) |
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Which level personnel are first responders who are likely to witness or discover a hazardous substance release and who have been trained to initiate an emergency response sequence by notifying the proper authorities of the release?
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Awareness level personnel
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Which level personnel is considered any person who comes upon an incident and has been trained to recognize, identify and notify?
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Awareness level personnel
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Which level personnel responds to hazardous materials or WMD incidents for the purpose of protecting nearby persons, the environment or property from the effects of the release?
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Operation level personnel
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Which level personnel are trained to respond in a defensive fashion without actually trying to stop the release?
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Operation level personnel
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Which level personnel function is to contain the release from a safe distance, keep it from spreading, and prevent exposures?
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Operation level personnel
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Which responder respond to hazardous materials and WMD incidents for the purpose of protecting nearby persons, the environment, or property from the affects of release?
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Operation level personnel
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Does Operations level responders act in a defensive fashion or offensive fashion?
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Operations = Defesive
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Does Technician level responders act in a defensive fashion or offensive fashion?
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Technician = Offsensive
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Which level responder are trained to enter heavily contaminated areas using the highest level of personal protection?
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Technician = Highest Level of PPE
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Which level responder receives more specialized training that a hazardous materials technician?
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Specialist level
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Which is more complex? Structural fire fighting or hazards materials incidents?
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Hazards materials incidents = More complex, strategies more thought out and planned in advance
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Because an incident has occurred in your community, which committee would have an impact on your pre-planning and knowledge? |
Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) |
