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ASP EXAM ESSENTIAL PRACTICE, 2021 Farcas, Hammond & Cena
2021
ISBN: 9798592894992
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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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“The ASP 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 presenting the pertinent equations and solution to the over 700
example essential questions. The book serves as a formidable preparation for the CIH
exam and 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 highlighted by the examples of the questions and their solutions.
ASP Exam - Essential Practice should be a must-have text for everyone in the field.”
Dr. Daniel Farcas would also like to thank Bowen EHS and its staff for the help and
guidance received through his studies for certification.
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Content
Code of Ethics……………….………………………..7
Safety Management………………………………….9
Electricity…………………………………………….27
Sound..………………………………..………………31
Vibrations...…...……………………………………55
Ergonomics……………………………………….…58
Thermal Stressors……………………………….…65
Toxicology……………..………………….…………72
Personal Protective Equipment……………..….112
Biostatistics……..………………………………..121
Epidemiology……………………………………....129
Radiation………….……………………………..….131
Hazardous Materials Management…………..…145
Sampling……………………………………..…….147
Immediately Dangerous Situations...................157
Biosafety...………………………………………….171
Ventilation……………………………………..…...181
Community Exposure…………………….………194
Working Environment…………………………….202
Transport……………………………………………215
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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.
Note: The three main reasons to promote health and safety standards within
an organization are Moral, Legal, and Financial.
4. What are the different types of risk? There are four types:
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* Low employee morale is the silent killer of the workplace. Losing a good
colleague due to a workplace accident, is difficult.
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8. What are the four (4) types of human errors according to Human
Factors Engineering?
Remember C.O.S.T.
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.
Example: What is the TCIR rate for a company with 400,000 worked hours
and two recordable incidents?
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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.
14. What are the four types of torts (wrongful acts or an infringement
of rights)?
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17. 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.
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The ISO 45001 is a set of standards that stipulates the international standard
requirements for occupational health and safety (OH&S) management
system. ISO 45001 concentrates on preventing illness, injury, and death in
the working environment while proactively improving the OH&S
performance. ISO 45001 draws from OHSAS 18000.
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 decided to adopt this
method as the solution).
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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.
PDCA Cycle
20. What are the factors that can lead to occupational stress? Basic
workplace stressors are:
A. Poor work conditions like cramped and dirty work area, excessive
noise, poor lighting, or lack of privacy.
B. Poor management attitude like lack of flexible working hours, lack of
communication and support, high responsibility with unrealistic
performance, or negative health and safety culture.
C. Job redundancy like boring and repetitive work.
D. Poor workplace interactions like bullying, discrimination, or threat of
violence.
Note: Injuries and illnesses in the workplace are expensive through costs like
worker compensation payments, investigations, training of the replacement
worker, product and line damage, and lower the work environment morale.
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22. What is the 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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24. What are the most common accident theories? There are four:
26. 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.
27. What is Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA)? FMEA uses
forward logic (inductive reasoning) that examines causes, failure modes, and
effects. FMEA uses a step-by-step investigation to identify possible failures
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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).
29. 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
General Staff
The Logistics Section Chief must provide the needed resources and
services to support the incident objectives' attainment.
31. 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,
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Note: Generally, the responsibility for safety within an organization lies with
the line supervisors who are overseeing the employees' immediate work.
33. What are the roles of the approved, designated, qualified and
competent personnel?
COMPETENT personnel has the authority to train the workers and stop
production and take prompt corrective measures that will eliminate
existing or foreseeable hazards.
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