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Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) examination

Provider
IHMM; proctored delivery through Kryterion
Format
English multiple-choice knowledge examination; test-center or live remote proctoring
Exam questions
Total questions: 140.
Time limit
3 hours
Passing score
700 on the reported 0–1000 scaled-score scale
Examination outline
  • Planning for Materials with Hazards (10.71%)
    • Identify hazardous materials by name
    • Identify hazardous material from four SDS
    • Identify hazardous constituents from laboratory reports
    • Select pollution prevention strategies
    • Identify effective recycling
    • Identify pollution impacts and related regulations
    • Pollution Prevention Opportunity Assessment elements and sequence
    • Impacts to air
    • Impacts to water resources
    • Impacts to soil
    • Minor and major permits
    • Permit application and review
    • Permitting inspection, training and waste requirements
    • EPA risk management program threshold quantities
    • Standard Operating Procedure components
  • Shipping and Transporting Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Materials (10%)
    • Hazmat transportation requirements
    • Packaging and appropriate containers
    • Transportation labeling
    • Domestic and international shipping marking
    • Shipping documents and proper shipping description
    • Required placarding
    • Shipment acceptance and rejection conditions
  • Store Materials with Hazard (9.29%)
    • Storage location site requirements
    • Inventory control regulations
    • Storage facility signage
    • Storage container labeling
    • Control of access to hazardous materials and waste
    • Storage compliance
  • Facility Operations Involving Materials with Hazards (9.29%)
    • Engineering controls for treatment
    • Engineering controls for storage
    • Engineering controls for disposal
    • Regulatory training records
    • Hazard communication from SDS
    • PPE for sampling and handling
    • Testing procedures for material hazards
    • Health, safety and security requirements
  • Disposition of Materials with Hazards (8.57%)
    • Waste profile components
    • Waste disposition options
    • Disposal facility qualification and disqualification
    • Material disposition requirements
    • Confirming and documenting final RCRA disposition
    • Managing releases from containers
    • Managing air emissions during waste disposition
    • Managing water discharges during waste disposition
  • Record Keeping and Reporting (6.43%)
    • Spill reporting timeframes, thresholds and recipients
    • Regulatory program record keeping
  • Training Personnel (7.86%)
    • Regulatory program training requirements
    • Activity-specific competencies
    • Required job training types
    • Training assessment selection
    • Agencies participating in hazmat drills and exercises
    • Adequacy of training content and duration
  • Response and Recovery (7.86%)
    • Spill or release hazards, quantity and location
    • Determining spilled or released amounts
    • National Response Center reporting conditions
    • Mitigating receptor impacts
    • Recovery or incident action planning
    • Incident investigation data
  • Remediation (6.43%)
    • Constituents of concern, extent and receiving media
    • Remedial objectives
    • Remedial treatment selection
    • Tools to ensure remedial objectives are achieved
    • Capital and recurring remedial costs
    • Redevelopment considerations and pitfalls
    • Cleanup standard achievement from soil results
  • Management Systems (6.43%)
    • Regulations for multi-media programs
    • Record maintenance and retention
    • Determining current regulations
    • Knowledge for regulation development
    • Interested parties and communication processes
    • Required public outreach mechanisms
    • Management system audits versus compliance audits
    • Financial analysis variables
    • Operations requiring a program
  • Environmental Studies (6.43%)
    • Property transfer environmental due diligence
    • Building surveys for regulated materials
    • Regulatory process and output
    • Contaminants of concern from analytical data
    • Likely exposure routes from contamination sources
  • Health and Safety (10.71%)
    • Exposure routes and susceptible populations
    • Exposure routes from screening thresholds
    • Job tasks, hazards and controls
    • Process safety management
    • OSHA-compliant site safety plan elements
    • Emergency response plan elements
    • Appropriate hazardous material containment
    • Product labeling requirements
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