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HAZMAT Final Test Questions with Verified Solutions, Exams of Engineering

A comprehensive set of multiple-choice questions and answers covering various aspects of hazardous materials (hazmat) management. It covers topics such as the definition of hazmat, types of hazmat, response models, levels of responders, health effects, routes of entry, energy release, transportation regulations, and relevant agencies involved in hazmat management. Suitable for students and professionals seeking to enhance their understanding of hazmat safety and response procedures.

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HAZMAT FINAL TEST QUESTIONS WITH 100% VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS.
1) When particularly dangerous materials, including, biological, radiological, nuclear, or
explosive (CBRNE) material are used as weapons, they are referred to as: --
Answer ✔✔ weapons of mass destruction
2) Hazardous materials may -- Answer ✔✔ present a variety of dangers, sometimes in
very small quantities
3) First responders at a hazmat incidents must: -- Answer ✔✔ understand their role
and limitations
4) Awareness personnel: -- Answer ✔✔ are typically at the scene when the incident
occurs
5) Operations-core responders: -- Answer ✔✔ are dispatched to the scene in order
to mitigate the incident
6) Operations mission-specific personnel: -- Answer ✔✔ may be trained core
competencies to preform additional defensive tasks and limited offensive actions
7) What response model forms a consistent problem-solving process that can be used
at any incident, regardless of size or complexity? -- Answer ✔✔ APIE
8) Which level responder is trained only to establish scene control by isolating the
hazardous area and denying entry?: -- Answer ✔✔ Awareness
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SOLUTIONS.

  1. When particularly dangerous materials, including, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive (CBRNE) material are used as weapons, they are referred to as: -- Answer ✔✔ weapons of mass destruction
  2. Hazardous materials may -- Answer ✔✔ present a variety of dangers, sometimes in very small quantities
  3. First responders at a hazmat incidents must: -- Answer ✔✔ understand their role and limitations
  4. Awareness personnel: -- Answer ✔✔ are typically at the scene when the incident occurs
  5. Operations-core responders: -- Answer ✔✔ are dispatched to the scene in order to mitigate the incident
  6. Operations mission-specific personnel: -- Answer ✔✔ may be trained core competencies to preform additional defensive tasks and limited offensive actions
  7. What response model forms a consistent problem-solving process that can be used at any incident, regardless of size or complexity? -- Answer ✔✔ APIE
  8. Which level responder is trained only to establish scene control by isolating the hazardous area and denying entry?: -- Answer ✔✔ Awareness
  1. Which level responder is train to identify potential hazardous and identify response options but not to preform mission specific tasks with specialized competencies? -- Answer ✔✔ Operation
  2. Which level of responder is trained to preform mission-specific tasks with specialized competencies? -- Answer ✔✔ Operations Mission-Specific
  3. Health effects that are short term and appear within a few hours or days are called: -- Answer ✔✔ acute
  4. The most common route of entry into the body for a hazardous material is: -- Answer ✔✔ inhalation
  5. Which mechanism of harm is the greatest threat at hazmat incidents? -- Answer ✔✔ Energy Release
  6. Statistics indicate that most transportation hazmat incidents occur via: -- Answer ✔✔ highway
  7. Hazardous materials or dangerous goods are: -- Answer ✔✔ substances that possess harmful characteristics
  8. Weapons of mass destruction: -- Answer ✔✔ are particularly dangerous materials used as weapons
  9. CBRNE is an acronym for: -- Answer ✔✔ types of materials that may be used as weapons
  10. Hazmat incidents often: -- Answer ✔✔ are more complex than other types of emergency incidents
  11. Hazmat first responders must understand their roles and responsibilities as well as: -- Answer ✔✔ their limitations
  1. In step 4 of the APIE process, responders: -- Answer ✔✔ monitor progress to see whether the response plan is working, and continue throughout the incident
  2. Awareness level personnel are expected to: -- Answer ✔✔ recognize that a hazardous material is present at an incident and call for appropriate assistance.
  3. What is the responsibility of awareness level personnel during the planning process of a hazmat incident? -- Answer ✔✔ planning the response is not the responsibility of awareness level personnel
  4. Operations level responders are expected to -- Answer ✔✔ protect individuals, environment, and property from effects of the release in a primarily defensive manner
  5. What level of responder is expected to identify potential hazards at an incident including the type of container involved, the hazardous material involved, and the hazards presented by the material, but does not perform offensive actions? -- Answer ✔✔ Operations level personnel
  6. What is the responsibility of operations level personnel during the planning response phase of a hazmat incident? -- Answer ✔✔ Planning the response is not the responsibility of operations level personnel
  7. An important role for operations level responders is to: -- Answer ✔✔ establish the incident management system
  8. Mass decontamination, product control, and victim rescue and recovery are examples of: -- Answer ✔✔ mission-specific tasks with specialized competencies
  9. Acute health effects are: -- Answer ✔✔ short-term effects that appear within hours or days
  10. A chronic exposure to a hazardous materials is: -- Answer ✔✔ long-term or reoccurring
  1. Breathing hazardous materials in through the nose or mouth is defined as: -- Answer ✔✔ inhalation
  2. Eating or swallowing hazardous materials through the skin or eyes is defined as: -- Answer ✔✔ ingestion
  3. The process of taking on hazardous materials though the skin or eyes is defined as -
  • Answer ✔✔ absorption
  1. The process of taking in hazardous materials through a puncture of the skin is defined as: -- Answer ✔✔ injection
  2. Fires and explosions are examples of: -- Answer ✔✔ energy release
  3. A chemical that burns or destroys living tissue is an example of: -- Answer ✔✔ corrosivity
  4. Chemicals or biological substances that cause sickness, illness, or injury by doing damage on a molecular scale are an example of: -- Answer ✔✔ toxicity
  5. Fire service professional organizations testified before the US Congress and requested inclusion of emergency responders in the provisions of the superfund amendment and reauthorization act (SARA) based on: -- Answer ✔✔ a history of harmful and deadly incidents that affected the emergency response community
  6. In the United States transportation of hazardous materials via air, highway, pipeline, rail, or water is regulated by the: -- Answer ✔✔ Department of Transportation (DOT)
  7. In the United States, responsibility for researching and setting national standards for environmental programs is the duty of the: -- Answer ✔✔ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  8. In the united states, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is administered by the: -- Answer ✔✔ Department of Labor (DOL)
  1. Incidents involving hazardous materials can be controlled only when: -- Answer ✔✔ personnel involved have sufficient information to make informed decisions
  2. In general, when hazmat is involved, distance often equates to: -- Answer ✔✔ safety
  3. Where are hazardous materials found? -- Answer ✔✔ Hazardous materials can be found anywhere
  4. Rounded, almost spherical ends, bolted manways, and pressure relief, gauges are clues that a container: -- Answer ✔✔ under pressure
  5. Over ninety percent of the worlds cargo is transported via: -- Answer ✔✔ marine vessels
  6. The placarding, labeling, and making system used by the US, Canada, and Mexico to identify hazmat during transportation is based on recommendation by the: -- Answer ✔✔ United Nations (UN)
  7. The UN assigns a four-digit identification number to: -- Answer ✔✔ hazardous materials and categories
  8. Placards are not required for shipment of: -- Answer ✔✔ infectious substances
  9. Canadian placards, markings, and labels are: -- Answer ✔✔ very similar to US and Mexico
  10. Mexican placards, markings, and labels are: -- Answer ✔✔ very similar to the US and Canada
  11. Promoting common, consistent criteria for classifying chemicals according to their health, physical, and environmental hazardous is the goal of: -- Answer ✔✔ the Globally Harmonized System (GHS)
  1. The manufacture and labeling of pesticides is regulated by the: -- Answer ✔✔ Environmental Protections Agency (EPA)
  2. In trucks and airplanes, shipping papers should be: -- Answer ✔✔ placed near the driver or pilot
  3. Safety Data Sheets (SDS) are prepared by: -- Answer ✔✔ the chemical's manufacturer or importer
  4. The Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG) is primarily designed for use at: -- Answer ✔✔ incidents occurring on highway or railroad
  5. Which of the five senses is the safest to use to detect hazardous materials? -- Answer ✔✔ vision
  6. Physiological signs and symptoms of chemicals exposure: -- Answer ✔✔ may also indicate the presence of hazardous materials
  7. Which of these activates is outside the scope of actions for Awareness level personnel? -- Answer ✔✔ The use of monitoring and detection devices
  8. Time and effort devoted to identifying contents of building, vehicles, and containers results in: -- Answer ✔✔ greater safety for first responders
  9. When hazardous materials are transported through your area,: -- Answer ✔✔ you may have little to no warning
  10. What are some reasons that preincident survey might not be accurate or useful in a hazmat incident? -- Answer ✔✔ Inventories, businesses, or other factors may change without notice
  11. In which type of occupancy are first responders MOST likely to find supplies of anhydrous ammonia? -- Answer ✔✔ Farms
  1. Generally speaking, labels are designed for: -- Answer ✔✔ nonbulk package
  2. Generally speaking, placards are designed for: -- Answer ✔✔ bulk packages
  3. In the UN system, hazard classes are divided into: -- Answer ✔✔ Nine classes that include gasses, infectious substances and miscellaneous
  4. In North America, rail tank cars, portable tanks, bulk packages, and certain non bulk packages must display: -- Answer ✔✔ The UN four digit identification number
  5. Which of the following statements regarding the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG) and UN four digit identification numbers most accurate rate? -- Answer ✔✔ UN identification numbers can be found in the ERG and on shipping papers
  6. Which of the following is a diamond shaped color coded sign on bulk transportation -- Answer ✔✔ Placard
  7. What type of vehicle is LEAST likely to have hazardous materials placards attached? -- Answer ✔✔ Military vehicles
  8. What placard designation is used for mixed loads where the transport vehicle contains nonbulk packages with two or more package categories of hazardous materials? -- Answer ✔✔ DANGEROUS
  9. Which of the following is a 3.9 inch (100 mm) square-on-point diamond that identifies hazardous materials within packaging? -- Answer ✔✔ Label
  10. Which of the following is a descriptive name, identification number, weight, or specification that includes instructions, cautions, or UN marks, and is required on outer packaging of hazardous materials? -- Answer ✔✔ Marking
  11. What types of materials are first responders MOST likely to find labeled with the marking "hot"? -- Answer ✔✔ Sulfur or aluminum
  1. Which agency governs transportation placards, labels and markings in Canada? -- Answer ✔✔ Transport Canada
  2. One difference between Canadian and US placard, label, and marking systems is that: -- Answer ✔✔ Most Canadian transport placards do not have signal words written on them
  3. Mexican placards, markings and labels are based on: -- Answer ✔✔ UN recommendations
  4. One difference between Mexican and US placards, markings, and marking systems is that: -- Answer ✔✔ information provided on Mexican labels and markings is likely to be in Spanish
  5. NFPA 704, Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response gives widely recognized methods for indicating the presence of hazardous materials: -- Answer ✔✔ At commercial, manufacturing, institutional, or other fixed storage facilities
  6. In the NFPA 704 System, what does a "4" in the yellow background indicate? -- Answer ✔✔ Severe instability
  7. In the NFPA 704 System, what category does a W with a line through it in a yellow background indicate? -- Answer ✔✔ Water reactivity
  8. In the NFPA 704 System what are special hazards symbols located? -- Answer ✔✔ At the six o' clock position
  9. Uniform classification of hazardous substances and uniform labeling standards anew key elements of: -- Answer ✔✔ The Globally Harmonized System (GHS)
  10. OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) requires: -- Answer ✔✔ employers to identify hazards in the workplace
  1. Which of the following statements regarding shipping papers and similar documents is MOST accurate? -- Answer ✔✔ They are often placed on the bridge or in the pilot house on ships and barges
  2. Safety data sheets: -- Answer ✔✔ Are often the best source of information about a particular material to which emergency responders have access
  3. Which of the following is NOT a section I included in Safety Data Sheets (SDS) -- Answer ✔✔ NIOSH identification number
  4. The Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG): -- Answer ✔✔ Provides guidance to personnel who may be first to arrive at a scene of a transportation incident involving hazmat
  5. Which of the following statements regarding the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG) is MOST accurate? -- Answer ✔✔ Operations level responders should seek additional, specific information beyond the ERG
  6. Chemical Inventory Lists (cils) at facilities usually contain information about location of materials within a facility, making them useful tools for: -- Answer ✔✔ Identifying containers that have been damaged or are missing labels or markings
  7. How does a LERP (Local Emergency Response Plan) differ from a preincident plan? -- Answer ✔✔ A LERP is developed working with emergency management agencies, responders, industry, and the public.
  8. What are CAMEO and WISER? -- Answer ✔✔ Electronic technical resources designed to help in hazmat incidents
  9. Which situation is the most dangerous for first responders? -- Answer ✔✔ Identifying an anhydrous ammonia leak by its irritating fumes
  10. Which of the following BEST describes olfactory fatigue? -- Answer ✔✔ The gradual loss of ability to detect the presence of a chemical by smell
  1. Which of the following BEST describes physical processes of materials? -- Answer ✔✔ Processes that do NOT change the elemental composition of materials involved
  2. Peeling or discoloration of a container's finish suggests what type of change? -- Answer ✔✔ Chemical
  3. Physiological signs and symptoms of chemical exposure are LEAST likely to include: -- Answer ✔✔ Contusions or hematomas
  4. Effectively using monitoring and detection devices requires: -- Answer ✔✔ Actual contact with the hazardous materials
  5. The use of monitoring and detection devices: -- Answer ✔✔ Is outside the scope of action for awareness level personnel
  6. What defines roles in the notification process -- Answer ✔✔ Predetermined procedures
  7. The Emergency Response Guidebook is primarily designed for use at hazmat incident occurring: -- Answer ✔✔ On the highway or railroad
  8. Isolation and protective distances in the ERG -- Answer ✔✔ May not be useful in urban settings
  9. The ERG is primarily designed for use at hazmat incidents occurring: -- Answer ✔✔ On the highway or railroad
  10. Isolation and protective distances in the ERG: -- Answer ✔✔ may not be useful in urban settings
  11. The white pages in the ERG provide: -- Answer ✔✔ Instructions for use
  1. When using the ERG to locate appropriate initial action, what provides the most specific initial action guide? -- Answer ✔✔ Four-digit ID number or chemical names
  2. Where in the ERG would you find identification numbers for road trailers? -- Answer ✔✔ White pages, front section
  3. Where in the ERG would you find information about terrorist use of chemical, biological, or radiological agents? -- Answer ✔✔ White pages, back section
  4. Which section of the ERG provides the four digit UN/NA number index list in numerical order? -- Answer ✔✔ Yellow-bordered pages
  5. The blue-bordered pages in the ERG provide: -- Answer ✔✔ An index of dangerous goods in alphabetical order by material name
  6. Green highlighting in the yellow-bordered and blue-bordered pages of the ERG indicates that the substance: -- Answer ✔✔ Releases gasses that are a toxic inhalation hazard
  7. ERG initial action guides are provided in the: -- Answer ✔✔ Orange bordered pages
  8. Where would you find information on protective clothing and respiratory protection recommendations? -- Answer ✔✔ The public safety sections in the orange bordered pages
  9. Which level of the basic command organization configuration entails the overall direction and goals of an incident? -- Answer ✔✔ Strategic level
  10. Which of the following is a duty of a safety officer? -- Answer ✔✔ Conducting safety briefings
  11. Which of the five major NIMS-ICS organizational functions are responsible for the establishment and maintenance of the staging area? -- Answer ✔✔ Operations section
  1. The major NIMS-ICS organizational function that provides services and support systems to all the organizational components involved in the incident is called the: -
  • Answer ✔✔ Logistics section
  1. What is a purpose of the intelligence and information section in NIMS-ICS? -- Answer ✔✔ Prevent/deter potential unlawful activity
  2. The person relinquishing command must provide the person assuming command with: -- Answer ✔✔ A briefing or situation status report
  3. A written agreement defining roles and responsibilities within a unified command structure is known as a(n): -- Answer ✔✔ Memorium of Understanding
  4. Before an incident with Unified command occurs, agencies should perform what action to avoid jurisdictional and command disputes? -- Answer ✔✔ Know what mutual contact aids cover
  5. When are response tactics developed? -- Answer ✔✔ After response strategies are in place
  6. In the US the notification process is detailed in the: -- Answer ✔✔ National Response Framework (NRF)
  7. What are the specialized response forces that provide medical care following a nuclear, biological, and/or chemical incident? -- Answer ✔✔ National Medical Response Team-Weapons of Mass Destruction (NMRT-WMD)
  8. Scene control at an incident is greatly facilitated by the establishment of: -- Answer ✔✔ Hazard control zones
  9. Multiple hot zones or a very large hot zone may be required at an incident with: -
  • Answer ✔✔ Multiple devices or releases points
  1. Decontamination usually takes place within the: -- Answer ✔✔ Warm zone
  1. To help preserve evidence and assist law enforcement, first responders should -- Answer ✔✔ Take photographs and videos of the scene
  2. If an IC receives favorable progress reports from tactical and/or task supervisors, this is an indication that: -- Answer ✔✔ The IAP is effective
  3. Which of the following is an indication to withdraw immediately? -- Answer ✔✔ A sudden change in pressure
  4. What aspect of evaluating progress deals with returning the incident scene and responders to a preincident level of readiness? -- Answer ✔✔ Recovery
  5. What information should be provided got responders before they leave the scene? -- Answer ✔✔ Signs and symptoms analysis
  6. What procedural action of the termination phase complies the information obtained from the debriefings, post incident reports, and critiques to identify trends regarding operational strengths and weaknesses? -- Answer ✔✔ Post incident analysis
  7. The transfer of a hazardous material to persons, equipment, or the environment is called: -- Answer ✔✔ Contamination
  8. If monitoring determines that the selected method of decon is not working, then: -- Answer ✔✔ A different decon method should be tried
  9. Removal of the contaminated outer clothing or PPE: -- Answer ✔✔ May be an effective method of decon
  10. What type of decontamination method involves collecting runoff water in a containment device? -- Answer ✔✔ Wet
  11. In united states, substances that possesses harmful characteristics are called: -- Answer ✔✔ hazardous materials
  1. In Canada, substances that possess harmful characteristics are: -- Answer ✔✔ dangerous goods