Hazmat 5a exam questions with answers |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
1. What is the primary purpose of a Hazardous Materials
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Response Team? |\
A. To develop a community plan for responding to hazardous
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materials incidents |\
|\ B. To assist in the disposal of household hazardous waste
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C. To provide the skills, knowledge, and technical equipment
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needed to offensively handle hazardous materials incidents
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D. To inspect buildings where hazardous chemicals are used or
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manufactured - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔C. To provide the skills, |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
knowledge, and technical equipment needed to offensively |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
handle hazardous materials incidents
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2. Which Federal law is intended to assure, so far as possible,
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safe working conditions?
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A. The Occupational Safety and Health Act
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|\ B. The Safe Drinking Water Act
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|\ C. The Toxic Substances Control Act
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D. The Clean Air Act - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A. The
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Occupational Safety and Health Act |\ |\ |\ |\
3. True or False: The five phases of a hazardous material's life
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does not include production, transportation, storage, elimination,
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and disposal. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔False
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, 4. A primary purpose of conducting a hazardous materials
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exercise is to find out: |\ |\ |\ |\
A. Which responders should receive raises
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|\ B. What Federal and State resources could be made available for
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|\ such an incident|\ |\
|\ C. What type of incident is most likely to occur
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D. Whether planned procedures work - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔D. Whether planned procedures work
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5. An industry's smokestack is an example of what type of
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source?
A. Point
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B. Area - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A. Point
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6. One benefit of a sound community plan to deal with a
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hazardous materials emergency is: |\ |\ |\
A. Fewer resources are required to handle the incident
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|\ B. The likelihood of an incident occurring is almost eliminated
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|\ C. The need for assistance from other jurisdictions is eliminated
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D. Roles and responsibilities are defined - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔D. Roles and responsibilities are defined
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7. True or False: Formal mutual aid agreements with surrounding
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jurisdictions are seldom if ever needed, since everyone is ready|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
to pitch in when an incident occurs. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔B.
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False
1. What is the primary purpose of a Hazardous Materials
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
Response Team? |\
A. To develop a community plan for responding to hazardous
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
materials incidents |\
|\ B. To assist in the disposal of household hazardous waste
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
C. To provide the skills, knowledge, and technical equipment
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
needed to offensively handle hazardous materials incidents
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
D. To inspect buildings where hazardous chemicals are used or
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manufactured - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔C. To provide the skills, |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
knowledge, and technical equipment needed to offensively |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
handle hazardous materials incidents
|\ |\ |\
2. Which Federal law is intended to assure, so far as possible,
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
safe working conditions?
|\ |\
A. The Occupational Safety and Health Act
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
|\ B. The Safe Drinking Water Act
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\
|\ C. The Toxic Substances Control Act
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D. The Clean Air Act - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A. The
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Occupational Safety and Health Act |\ |\ |\ |\
3. True or False: The five phases of a hazardous material's life
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does not include production, transportation, storage, elimination,
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and disposal. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔False
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, 4. A primary purpose of conducting a hazardous materials
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exercise is to find out: |\ |\ |\ |\
A. Which responders should receive raises
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\
|\ B. What Federal and State resources could be made available for
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
|\ such an incident|\ |\
|\ C. What type of incident is most likely to occur
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D. Whether planned procedures work - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔D. Whether planned procedures work
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5. An industry's smokestack is an example of what type of
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source?
A. Point
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B. Area - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A. Point
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6. One benefit of a sound community plan to deal with a
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hazardous materials emergency is: |\ |\ |\
A. Fewer resources are required to handle the incident
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|\ B. The likelihood of an incident occurring is almost eliminated
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|\ C. The need for assistance from other jurisdictions is eliminated
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D. Roles and responsibilities are defined - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔D. Roles and responsibilities are defined
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7. True or False: Formal mutual aid agreements with surrounding
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jurisdictions are seldom if ever needed, since everyone is ready|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
to pitch in when an incident occurs. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔B.
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False
