Unit 2: Hazards & Control Measures

Question 1

What are the three main types of hazards found in a hazardous work environment?

Answer 1

Chemical, biological and physical hazards

Question 2

Electromagnetic radiation with energy sufficient to cause the loss of an electron from the matter with which it interacts

Answer 2

ionizing radiation

Question 3

What are some examples of ionizing radiation?

Answer 3

Alpha, beta, and neutron particles, gamma radiation, and x-rays

Question 4

What are some examples of nonionizing radiation?

Answer 4

Ultraviolet, infrared, laser, and microwaves

Question 5

What are the three groups of factors for determining the toxic levels of specific industrial hazards?

Answer 5

Factors affecting the agent, individual, and environment

Question 6

What factors affect an agent’s toxicity?

Answer 6

Substance type, formulation, and volume or concentration

Question 7

What are the three major routes of entry for hazardous substances?

Answer 7

ingestion, inhalation, absorption

Question 8

Give some examples of individual differences that would affect the toxic reaction of a substance on a worker.

Answer 8

Age and weight

Question 9

What two environmental factors can affect human responses to toxic materials?

Answer 9

Temperature and environmental chemicals

Question 10

What are the symptoms of organophosphate poisoning?

Answer 10

Gastrointestinal discomfort, salivation, profuse sweating, and difficulty in breathing

Question 11

How does HCN cause death?

Answer 11

By interfering with cellular respiration

Question 12

An organ or organ system that is specifically affected by a toxic material

Answer 12

target organ

Question 13

Toxic material that deprives the body’s cells of oxygen

Answer 13

asphyxiant

Question 14

What are the four physical classes of toxic materials?

Answer 14

Gases and vapors, particulate matter, liquids, and solids

Question 15

What are the five major types of aerosols?

Answer 15

Smoke, fog, mists, fumes, and dusts

Question 16

To which specific group of hazards do chlorine, bromine, and fluorine belong?

Answer 16

Halogenated hydrocarbons

Question 17

What types of bodily damage may creosote possibly cause?

Answer 17

Skin cancer; systemic effects involving the CNS and cardiovascular system, or renal and hepatic damage

Question 18

What are some uses for potassium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide commonly found on AF bases?

Answer 18

Potassium hydroxide is an alkali-electrolyte for nickel cadmium batteries; sodium hydroxide is an alkali used in paint strippers and aircraft-cleaning compounds

Question 19

Oxyacetylene, electric arc, heli-arc, plasma torch, and metalizer are forms of what operation that causes hazards in the workplace?

Answer 19

Welding

Question 20

What are the two basic types of batteries used in AF workplaces?

Answer 20

Acid and caustic

Question 21

What is the primary hazard during electroplating operations?

Answer 21

inhalation of metal fumes

Question 22

What are the primary hazards associated with AGE?

Answer 22

Noise, exhaust emissions, production of carbons, and use of solvents that may cause dermatitis

Question 23

Degreasing solvents, mercury, acids, ionizing radiation, epoxy and resins, noise, and soldering hazards

Answer 23

exposure hazards of a medical maintenance worker

Question 24

Which control method is using citrus cleaners instead of trichlorethylene an example of?

Answer 24

Substitution

Question 25

Rotating workers through a hazardous environment regulates hazardous exposures through which control method?

Answer 25

Administrative

Question 26

What should be done to PPE to ensure protection for the worker?

Answer 26

Check to ensure it protects the worker against the specific hazard in the workplace

Question 27

What are the types of respirators used to protect workers from gas, vapor, and particulate hazards?

Answer 27

Air purifying, air supplied, and SCBA respirators

Question 28

A medical service program that ensures that all bases are striving to make working conditions safe and healthy for all employees

Answer 28

Air Force Occupational & Environmental Health Program

Question 29

What is the chief goal of industrial hygiene surveillance?

Answer 29

The preservation and the improvement of the health of the work force

Question 30

A detailed assessment of the operations performed, specific risks, available control measures, an evaluation of the effectiveness of those control measures. Consideration is also given at that time to the interrelationships of chemical, physical, biological, and biomechanical stresses that may exist in the industrial environment

Answer 30

comprehensive baseline study

Question 31

Who may request a special survey from the BE section?

Answer 31

A health care practitioner, a supervisor, an employee, employee representative, or PH

Question 32

What are the three phases of the general survey process followed for chemical agent exposure surveillance?

Answer 32

Recognition, evaluation, and control

Question 33

What are the two types of evaluations used for physical agent exposure?

Answer 33

Mathematical predictions and actual measurements

Question 34

A level of measurement which is half the OEEL established for each hazard

Answer 34

AL (action level)