Safety & Environmental - QMED

All of the following are part of the fire triangle EXCEPT _______________.

Which of the following shoring materials is used to tightly make up the difference in length of a shore cut slightly sho...

Which of the methods shown in the illustration is the correct way to fit shoring? Illustration SF-0016

After measuring the length to which a section of shoring should be cut, you should cut the shoring _______________.

Wooden shoring is used in shipboard damage control to _______________.

Which of the following shoring materials is a portable beam designed to support a damaged structure?

Which of the following shoring materials is a short flat block that is placed under the end of a shore for the purpose o...

Which of the following shoring materials is a long bar or beam used to distribute the pressure of a shore?

Class C fires may be combated using a _______________.

Which of the hazards listed is of a primary concern, other than fire damage, associated with a class C fire?

To fight a class "C" fire, you should use carbon dioxide or _______________.

A fire, occurring in the windings, of an overloaded electrical motor, is considered a _______________.

The spreading of fire as a result of heat being carried through a vessel's ventilation system is an example of heat tra...

To prevent the spread of fire by convection you should _______________.

You are attempting to administer CPR to a victim. While blowing into the victim's mouth, it is apparent that no air is g...

You are preparing to administer closed chest cardiac massage on a victim of electric shock. Which of the following actio...

In order to initiate CPR on a drowning victim, _______________.

When administering chest compression during CPR, at what part of the victim's body should the pressure be applied?

The MOST important element in administering CPR is _______________.

Before CPR is started on the victim, you should _______________.

In an emergency, a hole in the hull below the waterline, not over three inches in diameter, can be temporarily sealed b...

It is generally not advisable to drive a wedge into a crack occurring in the hull because wedges _______________.

An acceptable method of temporarily sealing a crack formed in the hull of a vessel is to _______________.

The hand brake of a lifeboat winch is _______________.

When a helicopter is lifting personnel from an enclosed lifeboat, the other individuals in the boat should ____________...

In order for the automatic lifeboat drain to operate properly _______________.

Which of the lifeboat parts listed must be painted bright red?

Why is an upper limit switch used when raising the lifeboat?

Your vessel is equipped with totally enclosed lifeboats. Which of the following statements is correct should the boat be...

When lowering lifeboats as the vessel is pitching in heavy seas, a good practice is to rig frapping lines ______________...

In the illustration shown, the sea painter is identified as item number _______________. Illustration SF-0043

The purpose of the wire stretched between the lifeboat davit heads is to _______________.

"Dry Powder" fire extinguishers, which contain a mixture of graphite and sodium chloride as the extinguishing agent, are...

A fire involving aluminum powder would be a class _______________.

A class "D" fire would involve the burning of _______________.

A crew member has suffered possible frostbite to the toes of both feet. You should _______________.

Part of the treatment for frostbite of the feet is the rapid rewarming of the cold injury. What is the preferred method...

Part of the treatment for frostbite of the feet is the rapid rewarming of the cold injury. What is the preferred temper...

If a cargo tank has not been certified as gas free, _______________.

A fuel tank is considered to be gas free when the tank is _______________.

What information can be obtained from a marine chemist's certificate on a tank barge?

A tank or compartment is "gas free" when there is an absence of dangerous concentrations of _______________.

A minor heat burn of the eye should be treated by _______________.

A crew member has suffered a burn on the arm. There is extensive damage to the skin with charring present. This is an ex...

Severe airway burns will cause _______________.

When treating a person for third degree burns, you should _______________.

Basic emergency care for an electrical burn is to _______________.

The most effective first aid treatment for chemical burns is to immediately _______________.

Which health hazard term is listed on a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) to indicate that contact with the substance wi...

A specific document which identifies a chemical, and lists its physical properties, health hazards, required controls, f...

What term is listed on a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) to describe a chemical that can produce a life-threatening or...

Which of the following statements is TRUE concerning life jackets?

Kapok life jackets require proper care and should NOT be _______________.

To prevent oil from escaping into the sea when ballasting through the cargo piping system, you should FIRST ___________...

Water ballast placed in a tank that has been crude oil washed, but not water rinsed, shall be regarded as _____________...

The amount of garbage disposed must be entered into the records maintained by each ship and stated in _______________.

An 'on-load' release system on a survival craft means the cable can be released _______________.

Who is responsible for lowering the survival craft?

When collecting condensation for drinking water, _______________.

To activate an air regeneration canister on a survival craft, you _______________.

Using a sea anchor with the survival craft will _______________.

When the survival craft is supplied with bottles of compressed air, they are used for _______________.

When inspecting a survival craft, you should check to make sure that the _______________.

Provided every effort is used to preserve body moisture content by avoiding perspiration, how long is it normally possib...

A self-righting survival craft will return to an upright position provided that all personnel _______________.

While retrieving the survival craft, the engine should be stopped _______________.

The survival craft engine is fueled with _______________.

When a rescue vessel approaches a survival craft in heavy seas, the person in charge of the survival craft should _____...

With the sprinkler system and air system on, and all hatches shut, the survival craft will be protected from __________...

In the event of a fire, the doors to a stair tower must be closed to prevent the spread of fire by _______________.

It is necessary to cool the bulkheads and decks surrounding a compartment where there is a fire in order to __________...

If you see an individual fall overboard, you should _______________.

In figure 1 of the illustration, fire would spread to compartment "B" by _______________. Illustration SF-0013

In which of the following heat related illnesses has the body lost its ability to regulate the body core temperature? ...

Which of the following conditions is a symptom of heat stroke?

In which of the following heat related illnesses has the individual lost the ability to lose heat through the mechanism ...

Which of the following heat related illnesses would be considered the most life threatening?

Which of the listed conditions is a symptom of sun stroke?

The sorting of accident victims according to the severity of their injuries is called _______________.

In managing a situation involving multiple injuries, the rescuer must be able to _______________.

If it is necessary to remove a victim from a life threatening situation, the person giving first aid must ______________...

Which of the following methods is a convenient and effective system of examining the body of an injury victim?

While you are fighting a fire in a smoke-filled compartment one of your shipmates falls sustaining a severe laceration a...

You have found a person laying prone and not breathing. An electric wire is touching the victim. Which of the actions li...

When administering first aid you should avoid _______________.

You are making a round of the engine room and approaching the motor driven cargo pumps and discover a person laying at t...

Clean air standards, referred to as 'Grade D', apply to compressed air for use in _______________.

When administering mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing to an adult, you should breathe at the rate of how many breaths per m...

The rescuer can best provide an airtight seal during mouth-to-mouth resuscitation by pinching the victim's nostrils and...

If vomiting occurs during a resuscitation effort, the best immediate procedure to follow is _______________.

Artificial respiration may be necessary in cases of _______________.

The bypass valve on a self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) bypasses _______________.

What should you do when the alarm bell on a self-contained breathing apparatus sounds?

Which unit will provide excellent mobility to the wearer in an unsafe atmosphere and provide oxygen to sustain life? ...

Which of the devices listed would be safe to use in a compartment with insufficient oxygen?

Why should you wear a self-contained breathing apparatus before entering a closed compartment to fight a fire?

The safe and efficient use of the face piece of a self-contained breathing apparatus is directly influenced by _________...

The Muster List ("Station Bill") shows each crew lifeboat station, their duties during abandonment, basic instructions,...

An extinguishing agent which effectively cools dilutes combustible vapors and provides a heat and smoke screen is _____...

A low velocity fog applicator is held in an all-purpose nozzle by a bayonet joint. The applicator is prevented from rot...

Low velocity water fog is used in firefighting as a _______________.

As its temperature rises, the volume of fuel oil stored in a tank will _______________.

A ullage reading is the distance from a given point at the _______________.

During fueling operations oil is detected in the water adjacent to your vessel. If however, it is determined to be from ...

When the scuppers are plugged and an oil spill occurs on deck, you should _______________.

During topping off of bunker tanks, the loading rate must be personally supervised by the _______________.

Which of the following methods will reduce the possibility of producing an electrical spark?

To avoid excessive pressures in the fuel oil filling system during bunkering, you should _______________.

When you have completed bunkering operations, the hoses should be _______________.

The most critical part of the bunkering operations, which can result in an oil spill, is when the _______________.

The sea painter on a rescue boat should be led _______________.

In order for you to operate your vessel's crude oil wash system, the cargo tanks to be washed must be _______________.

A crude oil wash (COW) system is considered as _______________.

Both crude oil washing and water washing use direct impingement to remove residue from tanks. Crude oil washing has an ...

If someone suffers a heart attack and has ceased breathing, you should _______________.

A person reports to you with a fishhook in his thumb. To remove it you should _______________.

First aid treatment for small cuts and open wounds is to _______________.

What type of wound is generally associated with a scraping away of the skin and may be very painful?

In all but the most severe cases, bleeding from a wound should be controlled by _______________.

In all but the most severe cases, bleeding from a wound should be controlled by _______________.

A person has suffered a laceration of the arm. Severe bleeding has been controlled by using a sterile dressing and direc...

Bleeding from a vein may be ordinarily controlled by _______________.

A tourniquet should be used to control bleeding only _______________.

What is the characteristic of the blood flow associated with arterial bleeding?

Antiseptics are used principally to _______________.

Progressive flooding in the engine room may be minimized by securing watertight boundaries and _______________.

Your ship has run aground and it is necessary to determine whether or not a compartment has flooded. Therefore, you sho...

What is meant by the phrase "partial flooding with boundaries intact"?

In a compartment that has been completely flooded with water, the greatest pressure will be exerted _______________.

In order for a compartment to completely fill up due to flooding, what condition must exist?

What is meant by the term "counter-flooding"?

Which of the following hazards is associated with the handling of petroleum products?

Petroleum vapors are dangerous _______________.

Which of the following methods will reduce the possibility of producing an electrical spark?

When checking the level of a volatile liquid in a tank on the weather deck of a tank vessel, you should position yourse...

A class "B" fire develops on the weather deck amidships of moored tank vessel. The fire party should man the __________...

Which of the fire extinguishing agents listed can be used to effectively combat a class B fire?

Which of the listed classes of fire would most likely occur in the engine room of a vessel?

Which of the listed burning materials would be described as a class "B" fire?

Persons who have swallowed a non-petroleum based poison are given large quantities of warm, soapy water or warm salt wa...

Which of the following is NOT a treatment for traumatic shock?

If there is no head injury, extreme physical discomfort or difficulty in breathing, a patient in shock should be placed ...

Which of the following conditions is a symptom of a person in shock?

Which of the following symptoms may be observed in a victim of cardiac arrest as a result of electric shock?

When treating a person for shock, you should wrap the victim in warm coverings to _______________.

Using a sea anchor when in a life raft will _______________.

You have abandoned ship and are in charge of a life raft. How much water per day should you permit each occupant to drin...

Most lifeboats are equipped with _______________.

When launching an inflatable life raft, you should make sure that the operating cord is _______________.

In order to retrieve an inflatable life raft and place it on deck, you should heave on the _______________.

The purpose of the four water pockets, located on the underside at each corner of the raft, is to _______________.

The canopy of your life raft should _______________.

Immediately after abandoning a vessel, lookouts should be posted aboard life rafts to look for _______________.

The air spaces in the floor of an inflatable raft will provide protection against _______________.

While adrift in an inflatable life raft in hot, tropical weather _______________.

How does an inert gas system on a tanker function to prevent explosions in cargo tanks?

The primary function of a "flue gas type" inert gas system is to _______________.

A fire is considered 'under control' when _______________.

When welding or burning aboard a vessel, you must be certain that the space _______________.

When required to work in an area where explosive gases may accumulate, you should use hand tools which are ____________...

Which of the following procedures reduces the possibility of an interior ventilation duct fire from rapidly spreading? ...

The fire extinguishing agent dispensed by the unit shown in the illustration is produced by _______________. Illustrat...

Following a grounding, you can best determine that a SLACK fuel oil tank has been holed by _______________.

In the event of a grounding, which tanks should be sounded to determine any evidence of holing?

Following a grounding, what would happen to the level of a slack double bottom tank if the tank was holed?

Following a grounding, what action should be performed prior to the use of the main engines?

When using portable tank cleaning machines, the hoses may be disconnected when _______________.

"Portable" oil tank cleaning machines are usually provided with a water supply from the _______________.

Physical exertion on the part of a person who has fallen into cold water can _______________.

The most effective warming treatment for a crew member suffering from hypothermia is _______________.

Which of the gases listed is the poisonous gas most likely to be found in a closed compartment involved in a fire?

A tank has been sealed and unventilated for a long period of time. Which of the following statements is true?

Span gas is used aboard liquefied natural gas carriers to .

An LNG carrier has an approved type of gas detecting system to detect methane leaks in the _______________.

Radiation can cause a fire to spread by _______________.

Which of the following conditions represents the appropriate time for setting off distress flares and rockets?

During oil transfer operations, who would be responsible to guarantee that the posted transfer procedures are being foll...

Where will you find the procedures for the reporting of oil discharge into the water?

A fire involving trash and paper waste would be classified as a _______________.

A fire that has developed in a pile of rubber gasket material would be classified as a _______________.

If the items shown in the illustration are burning, this fire would be a Class _______________. Illustration SF-0001 ...

A fire in a pile of canvas would be classified as a _______________.

A burning mattress is considered as which of the following classes of fire?

The equipment shown in the illustration is a _______________. Illustration SF-0012

What is the maximum reliable shelf life of a filter gas mask canister if the seal is unbroken?

If a person gets something in his eye and you observe that it is not embedded, you can _______________.

If a person gets battery acid in their eye while filling a battery, they should FIRST wash the eye with _______________.

Fires are grouped into which of the listed categories?

The vapors given off by heated fuel oil are flammable, explosive, and _______________.

When conversing over a sound-powered telephone circuit, the words "yes" and "no" should be avoided. What are appropriate...

If you wish to initiate a station-to-station call over a sound-powered telephone circuit, what is the correct procedure?...

What is the purpose of depressing the button on the handle of a sound-powered telephone handset?

Hazardous conditions exist which may result in spontaneous combustion when _______________.

To prevent oily rags from spontaneously igniting they should be _______________.

The process that occurs when heat is generated by a chemical reaction within a substance and continues to a point of ig...

A simple precaution to reduce the possibility of accidental fires in the paint locker is to _______________.

Through which of the listed processes is sufficient heat produced to cause spontaneous ignition?

If for any reason it is necessary to abandon ship while far at sea, it is important for the crew members to ____________...

The external flotation bladder on an immersion suit should be inflated _______________.

The component shown in the illustration would be installed in which of the following types of fire detection systems? Il...

In a typical automatic fire alarm system, which of the listed actions will cause an indication of a fire to be given in ...

Bunker "C" is classified as a grade _______________.

What strategy for avoiding heat exhaustion is most likely to result in more severe pain as associated with heat cramps? ...

What is the alarm signal for a fire emergency or fire drill onboard a merchant ship?

What is the whistle signal for lowering boats?

If you hear a CO2 activated alarm warning you to evacuate the engine room, how much time do you have to evacuate before ...

What is the alarm signal for dismissal from a boat station or boat drill onboard a merchant ship?

What is the alarm signal for dismissal from a fire emergency or fire drill onboard a merchant ship?

After extinguishing a paint locker fire using the fixed CO2 system, the next immediate action is for the space to be __...

When fighting a machinery space fire, you should operate a fixed CO2 system by opening the control valve to the space p...

The source of power for the CO2 discharge alarm siren is obtained from _______________.

What would be the most probable cause for a high-pressure alarm to be activated in a low-pressure CO2 fixed fire extingu...

When a ship's low-pressure CO2 fixed fire extinguishing system is activated from a remote location, what determines the ...

Why is it essential to introduce CO2 from a fixed fire extinguishing system, into a large engine room, as quickly as pos...

When re-entering an engine room that has been flooded with CO2, the investigating team should initially _______________...

Good housekeeping on a vessel prevents fires by _______________.

A fire can be extinguished by removing __ _.

Small oil spills on deck can be prevented from contaminating any waters by _______________.

While loading bulk oil, you notice oil on the water near the barge. Which of the following actions should you carry out ...

In cleaning up an oil spill, the use of straw or reclaimed paper fibers would be an example of which type of oil removal...

One of the limitations of foam as a fire extinguishing agent is that foam _______________.

The principle personnel hazard unique to Halon fire extinguishers is _______________.

Mechanical foam used for firefighting is produced by _______________.

Which extinguishing agent is most likely to allow reflash as a result of not cooling the fuel below its ignition tempera...

One of the disadvantages of using carbon dioxide to extinguish a fire in an enclosed space is _______________.

As a firefighting medium, CO2 can be dangerous under certain conditions as it can cause _______________.

The most common cooling agent used for fighting fires on tank vessels is _______________.

A large oil fire on the weather deck of a ship can be effectively fought using _______________.

Dry chemical extinguishing agents extinguish a fire by _______________.

Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF), commonly known as 'light water', is especially suitable for fighting _______________.

Which of the following statements is true concerning the Halon 1301 fire extinguishing agent?

Which of the following statements is true concerning carbon dioxide when used as a fire extinguishing agent?

Which of the following statements is true regarding oxygen indicators?

An oxygen indicator will detect _______________.

To detect the presence of explosive gases in any space, tank, or compartment, you should use a _______________.

When fighting a fire with a portable dry chemical extinguisher you should always _______________.

You are fighting a class "B" fire with a portable dry chemical extinguisher. The discharge should be directed __________...

If a fire broke out in an automation console, you would first secure the power and then proceed to use which of the list...

To operate a portable foam fire extinguisher, you should _______________.

In a cartridge-operated dry chemical type fire extinguisher, when the CO2 cartridge is activated, the dry chemical is r...

Portable Halon extinguishers used on a class "B" fire should be directed _______________.

The passive safety device installed on each Halon fire extinguishing cylinder, to prevent its over pressurization is ca...

To operate a carbon dioxide extinguisher having the type of head shown in the illustration, you would _______________....

A squeeze-grip type carbon dioxide portable fire extinguisher has been partially discharged. It should be _____________...

A hand portable CO2 fire extinguisher is effective on burning oil only _______________.

Which of the listed methods is the most effective to fight a fire on the open deck of a vessel if using a dry chemical t...

Which fire extinguisher is most prone to freezing when stowed in low temperatures?

The state of charge of a stored pressure type dry chemical fire extinguisher can be readily determined by _____________...

Treatment of heat exhaustion should consist of _______________.

While working in a hot engine room, what is the cause of heat exhaustion?

While working in a hot engine room, what is your best protection against heat exhaustion?

In addition to moving the victim to a shaded area, placing the victim in a prone position and loosening any tight clothi...

What are the symptoms of heat exhaustion?

Which of the following statements is FALSE concerning the proper procedure in handling a fire hose?

To properly maintain fire hoses, you should _______________.

Fire hoses located at protected fire stations must always be _______________.

When the cotton cover of a fire hose becomes oily or greasy, it should be washed with a solution of mild soapy fresh wa...

There is always a lower water pressure at the fire hose outlet than is found at the discharge of the pump. Which of the ...

Which of the following components provides a direct source of sea water for the fire main system?

While fighting a fire, in order to utilize two hoses from a single 'wye' gate attached to a hydrant outlet, you need on...

The primary function of an automatic sprinkler system is to _______________.