Hazmat Test California
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1. Shippers package in order to ____ hazardous materials.
Contain
2. How often are hazardous materials employees required to be trained and tested?
Once every three years
3. When applying for an original or renewed HazMat endorsement, you must undergo a background check through which agency?
The Transportation Security Administration
4. If a driver is given a leaking package or shipment, they should:
Refuse it.
5. A material's hazard class reflects:
The risks associated with the material.
6. How do you label a package if the hazardous materials label will not fit onto the package?
Place the label on a tag securely attached to the item.
7. If "Inhalation Hazard" appears on a shipping paper, the shipper should provide which placard?
Poison Gas or Poison Inhalation Hazard
8. If a shipping paper describes both hazardous and non-hazardous materials, the hazardous materials may need to be:
Highlighted in a contrasting color.
9. Unless the package is clearly unsafe, a driver needs ____ to accept a package.
The shipper's certification
10. A driver should ensure that:
The shipping paper matches the markings and labels on packages.
11. A placard should be placed:
At least three inches away from any other markings.
12. To know which placard to use, you need to know:
The hazard class of the materials.
13. Containers of hazardous materials must be:
Braced to prevent movement during transportation.
14. Class 1, Class 2.1, and Class 3 materials should not be placed in a trailer with:
A heater.
15. If loading corrosive materials, you should not:
Roll the containers.
16. When carrying Division 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3 explosives, your vehicle should not be:
Parked within 300 feet of a bridge.
17. If you're transporting explosives and your vehicle breaks down, you should notify other drivers:
With reflective triangles.
18. If transporting explosives:
You must have a written route plan.
19. A person should not smoke within ____ of a vehicle placarded for Class 3 or Division 2.1 materials.
25 feet
20. When refueling a vehicle carrying hazardous materials:
The engine should be turned off.
21. During a cargo fire, opening the trailer doors may actually cause the fire to expand because doing so:
Allows oxygen into the trailer.
22. If you notice a cargo leak, you should identify the leaking hazardous materials by:
Using the shipping papers.
23. If you identify hazardous materials leaking while you are driving, you should:
Park the vehicle.
24. The identification number associated with a hazardous material should appear:
On the material's packaging.
25. When transporting Division 1.1 materials, the floor liner should be:
Made from non-ferrous materials.
26. Which type of material may be required to have a transport index?
Radioactive
27. Your engine runs a pump used during the delivery of compressed gas. After delivery, you should turn off the engine ____ unhooking the hoses.
Before
28. Placarded vehicles must carry fire extinguishers with a minimum rating of:
10 B:C.
29. If transporting explosives, you may leave your vehicle unattended:
In a safe haven.
30. Shipping papers identifying hazardous materials should be:
On the top of a stack of shipping papers.
31. When a driver is not in their vehicle, hazardous materials' shipping papers should be:
Kept on the driver's seat.
32. What should be done if the third column of the Hazardous Materials Table contains the word "Forbidden?"
The indicated substance should not be transported.
33. Identification numbers, shipping names, and hazard classes:
Should not be abbreviated on a shipping paper.
34. On a shipping paper, if the letter "G" appears in Column 1, what else needs to appear?
The technical name of the hazardous material
35. Generally, a shipping paper must list:
An emergency response telephone number.
36. Emergency response information provided by the shipper must include:
Any risks of fire or explosion.
37. A person attending a placarded vehicle may be:
Within 100 feet of the vehicle.
38. In general, when loading a tank with flammable liquids:
A ground should be established before opening the filling hole.
39. If there is a collision involving a vehicle transporting Class 1 explosives, the driver should:
Remove the explosives from the vehicle before separating the vehicles involved in the collision.
40. If a leak is suspected in a cargo of radioactive material:
The driver should not operate the vehicle until it has been cleaned.
41. While driving, shipping papers should be:
Within reach.
42. When approaching a railroad crossing while transporting chlorine:
You must stop before crossing the tracks.
43. If cargo containing hazardous materials is leaking but the driver does not have access to a phone, they should:
Send someone else for help.
44. A person supervising the loading of a tank:
Must stay within 25 feet of the tank.
45. If transporting a package that contains radioactive materials, it is important to know that:
Radiation will pass through to other packages.
46. When driving a vehicle with empty cargo tanks that are used to carry hazardous materials, the driver:
Must stop at railroad crossings before proceeding.
47. Portable tanks:
Are not permanently attached to a vehicle.
48. The identification numbers assigned to chemicals can be found:
In the DOT Emergency Response Guide.
49. The only way to properly check tire pressure is by:
Using a tire pressure gauge.
50. If transporting chlorine, what must be in the vehicle?
A gas mask
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