Environmental Health, Safety, and Risk Management

Chemical Hygiene Plan Quiz

Please complete the below Chemical Hygiene Plan Quiz by clicking on the box that best represents a correct answer.

Once you have completed the quiz click the "Submit to EHS&RM" button and the quiz will be emailed directly to fysafety@uaf.edu. Your quiz will be graded and entered into the safety training database.

First Name:

Last Name:

Department:

Department PO Box Number:

Email Address:

Employee or Student Identification Number:

Are you:

Staff / Faculty / UAF Student Employee
UAF Student (if you are a UAF student AND a UAF student employee click above)
Volunteer
Non Affiliate

1. A Chemical Hygiene Plan is:

Required by FNSB Law.
Required by OSHA.
Required only by UA Board of Regents policy.
Strongly recommended, but not required by law.

2. The Principal Investigator is responsible for ensuring that personal protective equipment is available, in working order, and that employees have been trained in its use.

True
False

3. Laboratory employees are responsible for all of the following, except:

Knowing the types of protective equipment available, and using the proper type for each procedure.
Creating new uses for equipment for order to improve productivity in the lab.
Conducting experiments in accordance with procedures outlined in the Chemical Hygiene Plan.
Notifying the PI of equipment failure or laboratory accidents.

4. Laboratory personnel need to be trained:

Never - they should have received all applicable training as a student.
At the time of initial assignment to a lab, and whenever a new procedure or chemical is to be used.
Once a week, regardless of their activities in the lab.
At the Vinnie and Guido School of Hazardous Activities.

5. Steve wants to do a project involving recombinant DNA. Steve should:

Obtain approval from the Department Head.
Obtain approval from your PI.
Contact the Office of Research Integrity for instructions.
Proceed with the project because no approvals are necessary.

6. Standard Operating Procedures include specific information about the type of gloves to be used during the procedure.

True
False

7. Susan notices that she always feels dizzy after conducting a lab procedure involving solvents.

Take a few days off - she is probably just overworked.
Ignore it - it's part of being a lab worker.
Contact EHS&RM and request exposure monitoring and assistance with solving the problem.
Contact her lawyer.

8. When vacating a lab, responsibility for ensuring that the lab is cleaned out rests with:

The department Chemical Hygiene Officer.
The UAF Fire Department.
The PI.
The person who will be moving into the space.