COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ Fences, Gates, Security Guards, Lights, Closed circuit television
(CCTV), Alarm systems. Answer: Name the basic security measures
helped to increase security at a warehouse/distribution center.
◉ Identification badges and Voice recognition. Answer: Name the
two alternatives to personnel security.
◉ Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT). Answer:
The first major global supply chain security initiative that is
voluntary and was established by the United states Bureau of
Customs and Border Protection with the goal of creating an
environment of close co-operation between US importers, carriers,
and international exporters to the US.
◉ FAST (Free and Secure Trade). Answer: A program initiative
between the US, Canada and Mexico that aims to guarantee safety
and security and boost profits for each country.
◉ Container Security Initiative (CSI). Answer: A U.S. Customs and
Border Protection program that consists of inspecting overseas
shipments that are
,bound for the United States.
◉ 24 hours. Answer: How long do importers and exporters have to
send advanced manifests electronically prior to shipment on a sea
vessel?
◉ 4 hours. Answer: Customs and Border Patrol time requirement for
advanced manifest to be submitted prior to "wheels up" air
shipments from NAFTA and Central and South America above the
equator.
◉ 2 hours. Answer: Customs and Border Patrol time requirement for
advanced manifest to be submitted prior to the arrival of rail
shipments.
◉ 1 hour. Answer: Customs and Border Patrol time requirement for
advanced manifests to be submitted prior to arrival of trucks not
covered by FAST.
◉ Half Hour. Answer: FAST truck carriers need to submit advanced
manifest documents how long prior to arrival?
◉ Interconnection Security Agreement (ISA). Answer: Federally
mandated agreement for any system, contractor or agency that
,touches the federal network, including those connected to Customs
and Border Patrol (CBP).
◉ International Organization of Standardization (ISO) 14000.
Answer: Series of standards that outlines a system for companies to
help ensure the best measures are taken to protect the environment
at each link of the supply chain.
◉ The Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act. Answer: These laws
regulate industrial waste disposal and other activities that result in
contamination of the air and water. Regulates types and amounts of
waste/byproducts that can be released into the air and water.
◉ The Superfund. Answer: Common name for the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act which
established a multi-billion dollar fund to pay for remediation of toxic
waste sites left by companies that are unwilling or unable to pay.
◉ The National Environmental Policy Act. Answer: Act that requires
the federal government to consider environmental impact via an
environmental impact assessment before taking any significant
action, such as building a highway.
◉ Hazmat Materials (Hazmat). Answer: A substance or material that
the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has determined is
, capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, and
property when transported in commerce.
◉ Hazmat Employee. Answer: Employee who directly affects the safe
transportation of such materials or substances.
◉ US Department of Transportation (USDOT). Answer: Primary
agency responsible for developing and enforcing hazmat rules and
regulations.
◉ Radioactive materials, explosives (more than 55 lbs), toxic-by-
inhalation materials, liquefied natural gas. Answer: Types of
materials that require a company to register as a hazmat transporter
◉ Recycling. Answer: The reintroduction of partially processed
product or carrier solvents from one operation or task into a
previous operation.
◉ Source Reduction, Recycling, Incineration and land filling. Answer:
The three basic tiers of solid waste management put forth by the
EPA.
◉ Source Reduction. Answer: Reducing wastes at their source which
prevents them from getting into the waste stream.