HAZWOPER Exam Questions and Answers |
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Grade A+
• Private employees of an oil company cleaning up a marine oil spill. -✓✓TRUE
• City workers volunteering to help with a hazardous cleanup. -✓✓TRUE
• Cleanup for a limited spill that can be contained at the time of release. -✓✓FALSE
• First responders at the site of an emergency hazardous material cleanup. -✓✓TRUE
• To any emergency response, even if other provisions provide more protection to
worker health. -✓✓FALSE
• To all states, regardless of whether they have OSHA-approved state plans. -
✓✓FALSE
• If OSHA considers a worksite response activity a "HAZWOPER Emergency
Response," then employers and employees at the worksite performing emergency
response must comply with -✓✓All of the above
• Risk to consider include but are not limited to -✓✓All of the above
• Which of the following Code of Federal Regulations are applicable the hazardous
waste site work? -✓✓All of the above
• A hazardous waste is -✓✓All of the above
• The employer must try to eliminate the hazards to which employees are exposed by
sequentially following these methods -✓✓Using engineering controls, following work
practices, providing PPE
• What section of OSHA covers Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency
Response? -✓✓29 CFR 1910.120
• When did hazardous waste legislation first start to go into effect? -✓✓1970s
• The Hazard Communication Standard -✓✓B and C
, • Which of the following is NOT an employer responsibility? -✓✓Following SOPs and
wear required PPE
• Which is NOT a source for OSHA standards? -✓✓Work standards developed by the
individual company
• What lists the general and permanent rules of federal agencies? -✓✓The Code of
Federal Regulations
• Which one of these statements is NOT true? -✓✓Employers take all responsibility
under the OSH Act
• Who is NOT covered under the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency
Response section of OSHA? -✓✓A family who is exposed to hazardous waste buried
under their house
• The HazCom program must be written and available to employees. -✓✓True
• Which of the following is an employee right? -✓✓Be informed of your rights and
responsibilities
• Liquids which have a flashpoint below 100 F -✓✓Flammable
• A chemical which initiates combustion in other materials, causing fire either by itself or
through the release of oxygen or other gases -✓✓Oxidizer
• The ability of a substance to cause a harmful effect -✓✓Toxicity
• A chemical that will ignite spontaneously in air at a temperature of 130 F -
✓✓Pyrophoric
• Liquids which have a flashpoint at or above 100 F -✓✓Combustible
• A minimum temperature at which a liquid produces enough vapor to form a flammable
mixture -✓✓Flashpoint
• Any carbon-containing compound with 2 oxygen atoms joined together which can
produce severe fire and explosion hazards -✓✓Organic Peroxide
• Nothing dead brush near the site, but nowhere else is part of -✓✓Off-site
characterization
• Testing the air via personnel monitoring devices is part of -✓✓Ongoing monitoring
Complete Guide with Verified Solutions |
Grade A+
• Private employees of an oil company cleaning up a marine oil spill. -✓✓TRUE
• City workers volunteering to help with a hazardous cleanup. -✓✓TRUE
• Cleanup for a limited spill that can be contained at the time of release. -✓✓FALSE
• First responders at the site of an emergency hazardous material cleanup. -✓✓TRUE
• To any emergency response, even if other provisions provide more protection to
worker health. -✓✓FALSE
• To all states, regardless of whether they have OSHA-approved state plans. -
✓✓FALSE
• If OSHA considers a worksite response activity a "HAZWOPER Emergency
Response," then employers and employees at the worksite performing emergency
response must comply with -✓✓All of the above
• Risk to consider include but are not limited to -✓✓All of the above
• Which of the following Code of Federal Regulations are applicable the hazardous
waste site work? -✓✓All of the above
• A hazardous waste is -✓✓All of the above
• The employer must try to eliminate the hazards to which employees are exposed by
sequentially following these methods -✓✓Using engineering controls, following work
practices, providing PPE
• What section of OSHA covers Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency
Response? -✓✓29 CFR 1910.120
• When did hazardous waste legislation first start to go into effect? -✓✓1970s
• The Hazard Communication Standard -✓✓B and C
, • Which of the following is NOT an employer responsibility? -✓✓Following SOPs and
wear required PPE
• Which is NOT a source for OSHA standards? -✓✓Work standards developed by the
individual company
• What lists the general and permanent rules of federal agencies? -✓✓The Code of
Federal Regulations
• Which one of these statements is NOT true? -✓✓Employers take all responsibility
under the OSH Act
• Who is NOT covered under the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency
Response section of OSHA? -✓✓A family who is exposed to hazardous waste buried
under their house
• The HazCom program must be written and available to employees. -✓✓True
• Which of the following is an employee right? -✓✓Be informed of your rights and
responsibilities
• Liquids which have a flashpoint below 100 F -✓✓Flammable
• A chemical which initiates combustion in other materials, causing fire either by itself or
through the release of oxygen or other gases -✓✓Oxidizer
• The ability of a substance to cause a harmful effect -✓✓Toxicity
• A chemical that will ignite spontaneously in air at a temperature of 130 F -
✓✓Pyrophoric
• Liquids which have a flashpoint at or above 100 F -✓✓Combustible
• A minimum temperature at which a liquid produces enough vapor to form a flammable
mixture -✓✓Flashpoint
• Any carbon-containing compound with 2 oxygen atoms joined together which can
produce severe fire and explosion hazards -✓✓Organic Peroxide
• Nothing dead brush near the site, but nowhere else is part of -✓✓Off-site
characterization
• Testing the air via personnel monitoring devices is part of -✓✓Ongoing monitoring
