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HAZWOPER 8-Hour: Drum Handling & Sampling
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This quiz is focused on bulging/pressurized drums. OSHA’s HAZWOPER rule in 29 CFR 1910.120(j) covers drum opening, shock-sensitive wastes, lab packs, and sampling procedures, while an OSHA interpretation letter clarifies that the standard is performance-based rather than a blanket “remote bung wrench always required” rule. 
 

HAZWOPER 8-Hour: Drum Handling & Sampling
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15 Questions

1. During drum opening, employees not actually involved in the operation must be:
2. If employees must work near drums being opened, the proper protection is:
3. During inspection of containers within a lab pack, crystalline material is found on one container. How should the contents be handled?
4. When there is a reasonable possibility of flammable atmospheres being present, material handling equipment and hand tools must:
5. Drums containing packaged laboratory wastes must be treated as:
6. Which action is specifically prohibited during drum opening?
7. Which communications rule applies during shock-sensitive waste handling?
8. Which statement best reflects OSHA’s position on remote-controlled bung wrenches?
9. A drum is visibly bulging. What is the correct first action under HAZWOPER?
10. During shock-sensitive waste handling, the employee alarm system must be capable of being perceived above surrounding:
11. For shock-sensitive wastes, what is the first people-control measure listed by OSHA?
12. Where must controls for drum-opening equipment, monitoring equipment, and fire suppression equipment be located?
13. A lab pack should be opened only when necessary and then only by:
14. If excess interior pressure cannot be relieved from a remote location, OSHA requires:
15. Material handling equipment used with shock-sensitive wastes must be provided with: