HAZWOPER 40 - Lesson 1: Regulation Overview / Quiz
1. Who is NOT covered under the Hazardous Waste
Operations and Emergency Response section of OSHA? A family who
• A worker cleaning up hazardous waste sites is exposed to
• A family who is exposed to hazardous waste buried hazardous waste
under their house buried under their
• Anyone working with hazardous waste at TDS's house
• Someone responding to emergencies involving
hazardous material releases
2. When did hazardous waste legislation first start to go 1970s (October 21,
into effect? 1976 - The Resource
Conservation and
Recovery Act
(RCRA))
3. Which is NOT a source for OSHA standards?
• Consensus standards Work standard
• Propriety standards developed by the
• Some federal worker protection laws individual
• Work standard developed by the individual company company
4. What lists the general and permanent rules of federal
agencies?
• The Federal Register The Code of
• The OSHA CD-ROM Federal
• The OSHA Manual Regulations
• The Code of Federal Regulations
5. The Hazard Communication Standard:
• A. Is a broad general guideline suggesting how
companies should handle chemicals
• B. Was created in response to the need to protect D. B and C
workers from chemicals in the workplace
• C. Requires employers to evaluate chemical hazards
in their facilities and to communicate the hazard
information to employees
• D. B and C
6.
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1. Who is NOT covered under the Hazardous Waste
Operations and Emergency Response section of OSHA? A family who
• A worker cleaning up hazardous waste sites is exposed to
• A family who is exposed to hazardous waste buried hazardous waste
under their house buried under their
• Anyone working with hazardous waste at TDS's house
• Someone responding to emergencies involving
hazardous material releases
2. When did hazardous waste legislation first start to go 1970s (October 21,
into effect? 1976 - The Resource
Conservation and
Recovery Act
(RCRA))
3. Which is NOT a source for OSHA standards?
• Consensus standards Work standard
• Propriety standards developed by the
• Some federal worker protection laws individual
• Work standard developed by the individual company company
4. What lists the general and permanent rules of federal
agencies?
• The Federal Register The Code of
• The OSHA CD-ROM Federal
• The OSHA Manual Regulations
• The Code of Federal Regulations
5. The Hazard Communication Standard:
• A. Is a broad general guideline suggesting how
companies should handle chemicals
• B. Was created in response to the need to protect D. B and C
workers from chemicals in the workplace
• C. Requires employers to evaluate chemical hazards
in their facilities and to communicate the hazard
information to employees
• D. B and C
6.
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