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    1. This document contains an explosives safety quiz with multiple choice answers. It addresses safe handling of explosives, storage, transportation, blasting procedures, and emergency response. 2. The questions cover topics like minimum wait times before entering a blast area after a misfire, separation of detonators and other explosives during storage, use of waste oil in blasting agents, determining blast area boundaries, safety signage on explosive transport vehicles, suspending blasting during electrical storms, minimum distances for smoking near explosives, and fire equipment requirements for explosive transport vehicles. 3. Correct answers indicate detonators and other explosives must be stored separately, waste oil cannot be used in blasting agents, blast areas are determined by multiple factors

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    1. This document contains an explosives safety quiz with multiple choice answers. It addresses safe handling of explosives, storage, transportation, blasting procedures, and emergency response. 2. The questions cover topics like minimum wait times before entering a blast area after a misfire, separation of detonators and other explosives during storage, use of waste oil in blasting agents, determining blast area boundaries, safety signage on explosive transport vehicles, suspending blasting during electrical storms, minimum distances for smoking near explosives, and fire equipment requirements for explosive transport vehicles. 3. Correct answers indicate detonators and other explosives must be stored separately, waste oil cannot be used in blasting agents, blast areas are determined by multiple factors

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    1. This document contains an explosives safety quiz with multiple choice answers. It addresses safe handling of explosives, storage, transportation, blasting procedures, and emergency response. 2. The questions cover topics like minimum wait times before entering a blast area after a misfire, separation of detonators and other explosives during storage, use of waste oil in blasting agents, determining blast area boundaries, safety signage on explosive transport vehicles, suspending blasting during electrical storms, minimum distances for smoking near explosives, and fire equipment requirements for explosive transport vehicles. 3. Correct answers indicate detonators and other explosives must be stored separately, waste oil cannot be used in blasting agents, blast areas are determined by multiple factors

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    Explosives Quiz #1 Answers

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    1. This document contains an explosives safety quiz with multiple choice answers. It addresses safe handling of explosives, storage, transportation, blasting procedures, and emergency response. 2. The questions cover topics like minimum wait times before entering a blast area after a misfire, separation of detonators and other explosives during storage, use of waste oil in blasting agents, determining blast area boundaries, safety signage on explosive transport vehicles, suspending blasting during electrical storms, minimum distances for smoking near explosives, and fire equipment requirements for explosive transport vehicles. 3. Correct answers indicate detonators and other explosives must be stored separately, waste oil cannot be used in blasting agents, blast areas are determined by multiple factors

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    EXPLOSIVES QUIZ #1

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    1. When a misfire is suspected, no one shall enter the blast area for –

    a. 30 minutes if safety fuses and blasting caps are used


    b. 45 minutes if any other type of detonators are used
    c. 20 minutes if safety fuses and blasting caps are used
    d. 15 minutes if any other type of detonators are used
    e. A and D

    2. Detonators and other explosive material cannot be stored together.

    a. True b. False

    3. It’s all right to use waste oil products for the preparation of blasting agents
    (ammonium nitrate-fuel oil mixture).

    a. True b. False

    4. The blast area is the area in which concussion (shock wave), flying material, or
    gases from an explosion may cause injury to persons and is determined by –

    a. Geology or material to be blasted


    b. Blast pattern
    c. Burden, depth, diameter, and angle of the holes
    d. Blasting experience of the mine
    e. Delay system, powder factor, and pounds per delay
    f. Type and amount of explosive material
    g. Type and amount of stemming
    h. All of the above
    i. Some of the above

    5. Vehicles containing explosive materials must be posted with warning signs that
    indicate the contents and are visible from each approach.

    a. True b. False

    6. During the approach of an electrical storm, blasting operations must be suspended


    and all persons withdrawn from the blast area or to a safe area.

    a. True b. False
    7. Smoking and use of open flames is not permitted within _____ feet of explosive
    materials except when separated by permanent noncombustible barriers.

    a. 25
    b. 30
    c. 40
    d. 50

    8. A blast site is the area where explosive materials are handled during loading,
    including the parameter formed by the loaded blast holes and 50 feet in all
    directions from loaded holes.

    a. True b. False

    9. A misfire is the complete or partial failure of explosive material to detonate as


    planned.

    a. True b. False

    10. Vehicles containing explosive materials must have at least _____ multi-purpose
    dry-chemical fire extinguisher or ______ such extinguisher and an automatic fire
    suppression system.

    a. 3 and 2
    b. 2 and 3
    c. 1 and 1
    d. 2 and 1

    11. No exposed sparking material is allowed in cargo space of vehicles containing


    explosive materials.

    a. True b. False

    12. Explosive magazines shall be located in accordance with the –

    a. American Table Of Separation


    b. American Table Of Distances
    c. 1953 Separation Tables
    d. None of the above

    13. Persons who have been employed for at least 5 years in mining can be in control
    of blasting operations.

    a. True b. False
    14. If explosive material is suspected of burning at a blast site, persons must be
    evacuated from the area and not permitted to return for at least _____ hour(s) after
    the burning or suspected burning has stopped.

    a. ½
    b. 1
    c. 2
    d. 4

    Signature ________________________________ Payroll # _____________ Date __________________

    Instructor ________________________________ Instructor ___________________________________

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