Protocall 934 Hazardous Materials Technician: Ten Fingers and Ten Toes

By Kevin L. Miller

This workbook/exam is designed to comply with occupational safety and health administration, hazardous waste operation, and emergency response requirements.
This workbook/exam is not designed to replace the forty-hour hazardous materials technicians training manual, but it is designed to highlight and to enhance the areas that are important for example, hazardous materials, chemistry, toxicology, hazardous waste management, the selection of personal protection equipment, confined space entry, emergency response, and decontamination procedures.
This workbook/exam is the test that goes hand in hand with the Hazardous Materials Technician training manual.
This workbook/exam will cover the simple fact that most regulations are enforceable by law, while standards will promote Safe Work Practices, along with the importance of proving a safe work environment for our workers.
This workbook/exam will also give the reader the ability to understand the difference between emergency response, remediation, and the treatment the storage and the disposal of hazardous waste.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496958716

Kevin L. Miller

This manual is based on over twenty-five plus years of experience in emergency response, training and education, hazardous materials/chemical spill response, environmental, health and safety compliance, in the oil and chemical industry, working with the government and even transportation. The author has a background in engineering technology and construction; he is a certified hazardous materials manager, a certified emergency medical technician, trained in the field of emergency response to weapons of mass destruction, the sampling of biological agents, hazardous waste management, industrial waste water treatment and even surveying.

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1. INTRODUCTION

The threat from hazardous material is real and if you are an emergency responder, work at a treatment storage and/or disposal facility, along with working on remediation sites, you must be trained in accordance to the hazardous waste operations and emergency response requirements.

If you wish to be successful as an emergency responder you must have a team and the team members must know their entire role and take that role seriously.

1. Which federal regulation establishes the training requirements for the hazardous materials technician (the emergency responder)?

2. Briefly described the difference between the private industry and the public sector when it comes to chemical spill response?

3. When it comes to emergency response what are the five (5) levels of training?

4. Which regulation focuses on the safe transportation of hazardous materials?

5. What is the definition of a confined space?

6. What is the biggest difference between emergency response and remediation?

7. Briefly describe what is meant by level a protection?

8. What is NIOSH guidebook used for?

9. How would you use the NAERG to respond to a leaking bulk package transporting a class 8 material?

2. TRAINING AND EDUCATION

The training and education section is designed to get the students to understand the importance of receiving quality education and quality training, along with the importance of building a strong foundation based on hazardous materials, chemistry and toxicology.

The student will also understand that when it comes to developing of an emergency response team. That the diversity and flexibility in the team’s training along with the team’s background can also be extremely important.

1. Give me an example of some of the additional safety training a hazardous material technician may wish to receive?

2. What is the one thing that the hazardous materials technician must always perform during an emergency response