Hazardous Waste Operations (HAZWOPER) questions for the ASP
ASP11 Domain 7: Environmental Management (7.5 Waste removal, treatment, and disposal). 2 free questions below. Every answer quotes and links the regulation paragraph it rests on.
Regulations covered
- 29 CFR 1910.120 Hazardous waste operations and emergency response.How this section is tested
Text pulled from the eCFR, current as of 2026-10-14.
Question 1
A TSD facility has 60 employees. Only a designated 8-person emergency team has completed the full emergency response training (plan elements, SOPs, PPE, incident-handling procedures). The remaining employees, who are most likely to discover a spill first, have not had the full training. A safety professional is reviewing whether this arrangement can comply without training all 60 employees to the full degree. Which finding would show that the facility is NOT meeting the conditions for this approach?
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Answer: C. Employees outside the team were trained only to recognize that an emergency exists and to summon the trained team, but they have never been told not to attempt control, and some have been expected to try to contain small spills
The exception requires that other employees who may respond first be instructed to summon the fully trained employees and not attempt control activities for which they are not trained. Expecting untrained employees to contain spills defeats that condition, whereas the other findings describe the arrangement the standard allows.
Answer C rests on
29 CFR 1910.120(p)(8)(iii)(A)(opens ecfr.gov in a new tab)“Exception #1: An employer need not train all employees to the degree specified if the employer divides the work force in a manner such that a sufficient number of employees who have responsibility to control emergencies have the training specified, and all other employees, who may first respond to an emergency incident, have sufficient awareness training to recognize that an emergency response situation exists and that they are instructed in that case to summon the fully trained employees and not attempt control activities for which they are not trained.”
Question 2
A safety professional reviews a draft site control program for a hazardous waste clean-up. The draft contains a site map, designated work zones, a buddy-system requirement, standard operating procedures for the tasks, and the name and location of the nearest hospital. The site has no written provision for how workers will be alerted to an emergency or how they will communicate across zones. The employer says the draft is complete because it also includes air monitoring and medical surveillance in other parts of the site safety and health program. Which action is required to meet the minimum elements of the site control program?
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Answer: A. Add site communications, including a means of alerting employees to emergencies, because this is a required minimum element that is missing
The standard lists site communications, including alerting means for emergencies, as a minimum element, and the draft has no such provision. Air monitoring and medical surveillance are not substitutes for it. The standard allows elements to go unrepeated only where the same requirement is covered elsewhere, and that is not the case here.
Answer A rests on
29 CFR 1910.120(d)(3)(opens ecfr.gov in a new tab)“The site control program shall, as a minimum, include: A site map; site work zones; the use of a “buddy system”; site communications including alerting means for emergencies; the standard operating procedures or safe work practices; and, identification of the nearest medical assistance. Where these requirements are covered elsewhere they need not be repeated.”
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