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CSP EXAM ESSENTIAL PRACTICE, 2020 Farcas, Hammond & Cena
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“The CSP Exam - Essential Practice by Farcas, Hammond, and Cena is, as the name
implies, an essential set of questions in Occupational Safety. This book is well laid out in
19 sections. It draws the reader in, which certainly assists with their increased retention
of the amount of material that has to be covered. The questions are well introduced with
a short narrative before the introduction of the pertinent equations and solution to the over
600 example essential questions. The book serves not only as a formidable preparation
for the CIH exam but a good review of basic principles, a reference for many of the day-
to-day technical issues confronting the practicing worker’s safety and a guide for raising
awareness of potential problems for which alert action is required. The authors bring a
breadth of experience and insight into the issues handled in the text. They bring context
to the basic principles to be highlighted by the examples of the questions and their
solutions. CSP Exam - Essential Practice should be a must-have text for everyone in
the field.”
The authors would like to thank the following reviewers for their insightful comments and
efforts towards improving this book:
Khachatur Sarkisian, M.S., National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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Content
Code of Ethics……………….………………………..7
Safety Management………………………………….9
Electricity…………………………………………….24
Sound..………………………………..………………27
Vibrations...…...……………………………………50
Ergonomics……………………………………….…52
Thermal Stressors……………………………….…57
Toxicology……………..………………….…………64
Personal Protective Equipment……………..….101
Biostatistics……..………………………………..109
Epidemiology……………………………………....116
Radiation………….……………………………..….118
Hazardous Materials Management…………..…132
Sampling……………………………………..…….134
Immediately Dangerous Situations...................143
Biosafety...………………………………………….152
Ventilation……………………………………..…...162
Community Exposure…………………….………174
Working Environment…………………………….180
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Safety Professionals
1. Hold paramount the safety and health of people, the protection of the environment
and protection of property in the performance of professional duties and exercise
their obligation to advise employers, clients, employees, the public, and appropriate
authorities of danger and unacceptable risks to people, the environment, or property.
2. Be honest, fair, and impartial; act with responsibility and integrity. Adhere to high
standards of ethical conduct with balanced care for the interests of the public,
employers, clients, employees, colleagues and the profession. Avoid all conduct or
practice that is likely to discredit the profession or deceive the public.
3. Issue public statements only in an objective and truthful manner and only when
founded upon knowledge of the facts and competence in the subject matter.
6. Conduct their professional relations by the highest standards of integrity and avoid
compromise of their professional judgment by conflicts of interest.
7. Act in a manner free of bias with regard to religion, ethnicity, gender, age, national
origin, sexual orientation, or disability.
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8. Seek opportunities to be of constructive service in civic affairs and work for the
advancement of the safety, health and well-being of their community and their
profession by sharing their knowledge and skills.
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Safety Management
1. What is safety? Safety is the state of being "safe" or relatively free from
harm or other non-desirable outcomes. Safety means the control of
recognized hazards in order to minimize risk. Management is ultimately
responsible for safety. The safety professional’s duty is to advise
management.
Example: A wet floor is a slip and fall hazard (because we cannot say if the
unaware slip victim will die, end up with a broken bone or just be bruised).
By placing “wet floor warning” signs the risk of falling is reduced or by
blocking access to the wet area the risk is lowered even more and the area
becomes safe.
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Note: The major regulatory agencies for fleet safety are the Department of
Transportation (DOT) for traveling on public roads & highways and the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for loading and
unloading trucks.
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Example: What is the TCIR rate for a company with 400,000 worked hours
and 2 recordable incidents?
200,000 ∗ 2
TCIR = =1
400,000
Note: On average, 15 workers die every day from job injuries and over
5,600 Americans die from workplace injuries annually.
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13. What are ISO 9001, ISO 14000, ISO 45001 and OSHAS 18000?
The ISO 9000 is a set of quality management systems (QMS) that outlines
a framework that guarantees internationally recognized standards for
product and service providers.
The ISO 45001 is a set of standards that stipulates the requirements for the
international standard for occupational health and safety (OH&S)
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OHSAS stands for the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series.
Plan: identify the problem and develop a hypothesis (for example inside a
workshop the noise level is at 90 dB due to a noisy machine and we believe
that enclosing the machinery will reduce reflected sound).
Do: test potential solutions (we fully enclose the noisy machine).
Check: study the result and measure the effectiveness (we measure the
sound pressure level in the room with a noise dosimeter and obtain a 60 dB
value).
Act: choose the best solution and implement it (we chose to adopt this
method as the solution).
Note: 60 dB might be still too noisy, and someone suggests adding acoustic
panels on the walls to reduce reverberations, and in this way the cycle is
restarted.
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PDCA Cycle
Note: Injuries and illnesses in the workplace are expensive through costs like
workers compensation payments, investigations, training of the replacement
worker, product and line damage, and lower the work environment morale.
For all these reasons, it is better to prevent accidents through a properly
financed safety program than to pay after the injuries or deaths happened.
17. What is Time Value of Money (TVM)? The TVM also referred to as
“present discounted value” is a core principle in finance that holds that money
available now worth more than the same amount in the future due to the
potential earning capacity (not inflation).
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19. What are the most common accident theories? There are four:
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21. What is the Pareto Distribution? Named after the Italian economist
Vilfredo Pareto, the Pareto distribution asserts that 20% of causes lead to
80% of effects. This principle in safety management can be translated as:
20% of the workers are responsible for 80% of the incidents and injuries in
the workplace.
22. What is Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA)? FMEA uses
forward logic (inductive reasoning) that examines causes, failures modes,
and effects. FMEA uses a step-by-step investigation to identify possible
failures in a design, starting at a low level of the process and working its way
to the impact on the major system of subsystems (bottom-up approach).
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24. What are the laws of learning for working personnel? The most
efficient cognitive learning laws are:
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Note: The incident commander implements the Incident Action Plan (IPA).
Command Staff
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General Staff
The Logistics Section Chief’s duty is to provide the needed resources and
services to support the attainment of the incident objectives.
26. What are OSHA forms 300s? OSHA forms 300, 300A & 301 are logs
of recordable injury or illness cases required by the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA). An injury or illness needs to meet the
following criteria: result in a worker’s death, days away from the workplace,
restricted work or transfer to other less demanding jobs, medical treatment
beyond first aid, and loss of consciousness. Minor injuries are recorded in
the First Aid log.
Note: Generally, the responsibility for safety within an organization lies with
the line supervisors who are overseeing the employees' immediate work
28. What are the roles of the approved, designated, qualified and
competent personnel?
Note: As a CSP you need to be authorized to enter a job site by the employer
and designated to recognize hazards at a specific location providing that you
are qualified for it. You will communicate your findings to the competent
person, who has the power to take corrective measures.
Note: Steadily reinforcing positive employee behavior and actions will help
reduce future injuries caused by unsafe employee actions.
31. Which Health and Safety Acts should a CSP should become
familiar with at least the basic requirements?
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I. CFR 10 – Energy
II. CFR 23 – Highways
III. CFR 29 – Labor
IV. CFR 40 – Environment Protection
V. CFR 42 – Public Health
VI. CFR 49 – Transportation
Note: There are 50 titles comprising the CFR, that can be found online by
searching eCFR.
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for completing the task and the informed people will be kept up to date on
the task completion status.
For example, in the table below, the blueprints are sketched by (responsible)
the architect, the homeowner makes sure the architect designs the house to
his or her liking (accountable), while the project manager is consulted to see
if there are any foreseeable issues and the contractor is informed to prepare
to build the house.
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Sales = $500,000
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Electricity
A. Voltage is the electrical force (energy) that pushes the current between
two points and is measured in volts (V). Current moves from high voltage to
low voltage.
39. What are bonding and grounding wires used for? Bonding is done
by connecting a wire between the dispensing container and receiving
container. Grounding is connecting a wire between a container and ground
(Earth) thus creating a pathway to dissipate any electrical charge.
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