Safety Principles
25%of exam
Program Management
25%of exam
SMSMetricsInvestigationAuditsCulture
Risk Management
15%of exam
Emergency Management
9%of exam
ERPICSContinuityExercisesCrisis
Environmental Management
6%of exam
P2RCRASPCCSustainabilityPermits
Occupational Health + Science
10%of exam
Training
10%of exam
Needs AssessmentDeliveryAdult LearningEvaluationCompetency
Quick Facts
- Exam
- CSP11
- Credential
- CSP
- Questions
- 200 MCQ
- Time
- 5.5 hours
- Pass score
- Not published
- Education
- Bachelor degree
- Experience
- 4 years
- Safety duties
- 50% minimum
- Fees
- $160 + $350
- Recert
- 25 points
Control Order
Eliminate, substitute, engineer, admin, PPE
E: eliminateS: substituteE: engineerA: adminP: PPE
PtD vs PPE
PtD
- Before exposure
- Design-stage control
- Hazard reduction
PPE
- At exposure
- Worker-worn barrier
- Residual risk
Source vs wearer
Control Picker
- Hazard removable→Elimination(Best control)
- Safer material→Substitution
- Separate exposure→Engineering
- Work method→Administrative
- Residual exposure→PPE(Last barrier)
- Design phase→PtD(Early control)
- Energy service→LOTO
- Oxygen unknown→Permit space
Controls
- PtD
- Design out hazards
- Elimination
- Remove hazard
- Substitution
- Safer alternative
- Engineering
- Isolate exposure
- Administrative
- Rules and scheduling
- PPE
- Last barrier
- SIF
- Serious injury/fatality
Critical Hazards
- LOTO
- Hazardous energy control
- Confined Space
- Permit entry hazards
- Hot Work
- Ignition control
- Machine Guard
- Point-of-operation protection
- Fall Protection
- Elevated-work control
- Forklift Stability
- Center-of-gravity control
- Arc Flash
- Electrical thermal hazard
- PHA
- Process hazard review
Fire + Life
- Class A
- Ordinary combustibles
- Class B
- Flammable liquids
- Class C
- Energized equipment
- Class D
- Combustible metals
- Class K
- Cooking oils
- Egress
- Exit route
- Sprinklers
- Automatic suppression
- Clean Agent
- Residue-free suppression
PDCA
Plan, do, check, act
Plan: objectivesDo: implementCheck: measureAct: improve
Leading vs Lagging
Leading
- Before loss
- Proactive activity
- Predictive signal
Lagging
- After loss
- Injury history
- Outcome record
Predict vs record
Program Picker
- Proactive measure→Leading indicator
- After loss→Lagging indicator
- Change planned→MOC
- System weakness→RCA
- Culture signal→Near misses
- Supplier risk→Contractor safety
- Repeat issue→PDCA
- Compliance check→Audit
Program Systems
- SMS
- Structured safety system
- ISO 45001
- OH&S management system
- PDCA
- Continual improvement loop
- MOC
- Change risk review
- Audit
- System conformance check
- Contractor Safety
- Third-party risk control
- Budget
- Resource planning
- Ethics
- Professional conduct
Metrics + Investigation
- Leading
- Proactive signal
- Lagging
- Loss history
- TCIR
- Cases x 200000 / hours
- DART
- Restricted/lost-time rate
- RCA
- System cause analysis
- 5 Whys
- Cause chain
- Fishbone
- Cause categories
- Swiss Cheese
- Layered defense failures
- Near Miss
- Loss potential event
Risk Path
Identify, rank, treat, monitor
Identify hazardsAnalyze riskTreat exposureMonitor change
Inherent vs Residual
Inherent
- Before controls
- Raw exposure
- Baseline risk
Residual
- After controls
- Remaining exposure
- Tolerance check
Before vs after
Risk Picker
- Task steps known→JHA
- Process deviation→HAZOP
- Failure mode→FMEA
- Top event→FTA
- Event sequence→ETA
- Barrier view→Bow-Tie
- Portfolio tracking→Risk Register
- Risk ranking→Matrix
Risk Tools
- JHA
- Task-step hazards
- HIRA
- Hazard-risk assessment
- HAZOP
- Process deviation review
- FMEA
- Failure mode review
- RPN
- S x O x D
- FTA
- Deductive top event
- ETA
- Forward event paths
- Bow-Tie
- Barriers around event
- Risk Matrix
- Likelihood x severity
FTA vs FMEA
FTA
- Top event
- Works backward
- Logic gates
FMEA
- Failure mode
- Works component-by-component
- RPN scoring
Event vs mode
Risk Treatment
- Avoid
- Stop activity
- Reduce
- Lower likelihood/severity
- Transfer
- Shift financial burden
- Share
- Split risk burden
- Retain
- Accept remaining risk
- ALARP
- Reasonably practicable reduction
- Inherent
- Before controls
- Residual
- After controls
ERP vs BCP
ERP
- Immediate response
- Life safety
- Incident actions
BCP
- Business recovery
- Critical functions
- Continuity actions
Respond vs recover
Emergency + Training Picker
- Command roles→ICS
- Evacuation duties→EAP
- Response tactics→ERP
- Operations recovery→BCP
- Plan discussion→Tabletop
- Skill practice→Drill
- Training gap→Needs assessment
- Outcome proof→Kirkpatrick
Emergency
- ERP
- Emergency response plan
- EAP
- Evacuation/accounting plan
- ICS
- Incident command structure
- Evacuation
- Leave hazard area
- Shelter
- Stay protected onsite
- Tabletop
- Discussion exercise
- Functional
- Operations exercise
- Full-scale
- Field exercise
- BCP
- Critical operations continuity
Tabletop vs Full-scale
Tabletop
- Discussion-based
- Low disruption
- Plan gaps
Full-scale
- Field action
- High realism
- Resource test
Discuss vs perform
P2 vs Treatment
P2
- Source prevention
- Upstream change
- Preferred approach
Treatment
- After generation
- Waste handling
- Downstream control
Prevent vs manage
Environmental
- P2
- Prevent pollution source
- RCRA
- Cradle-to-grave waste
- Haz Waste
- Regulated hazardous waste
- Universal Waste
- Streamlined hazardous waste
- SPCC
- Oil spill prevention
- GHS
- Hazard classification
- SDS
- Chemical hazard data
- Sustainability
- Reduce/reuse/recycle
- ESG
- Environmental/social/governance
AREC
Anticipate, recognize, evaluate, control
A: anticipateR: recognizeE: evaluateC: control
Occupational Health
- AREC
- Anticipate-recognize-evaluate-control
- OEL
- Exposure limit
- TWA
- Time-weighted average
- STEL
- Short-term limit
- Ceiling
- Never exceed
- Dose
- Exposure over time
- Respirator
- Selected by hazard
- Ventilation
- Dilute/capture contaminants
- Hearing
- 85 dBA action level
Applied Science
- LD50
- Median lethal dose
- LC50
- Median lethal concentration
- Ergonomics
- Fit task to worker
- NIOSH RWL
- 51 lb ideal constant
- Force
- Mass x acceleration
- Pressure
- Force per area
- Containment
- Volume for releases
- Grounding
- Fault-current path
Kirkpatrick
Reaction, learning, behavior, results
Reaction: feedbackLearning: knowledgeBehavior: transferResults: impact
Reaction vs Results
Reaction
- Learner feedback
- Level one
- Satisfaction signal
Results
- Business impact
- Level four
- Performance signal
Like vs impact
Training
- Needs Assessment
- Gap before design
- Objectives
- Measurable outcomes
- Adult Learning
- Relevant and active
- Delivery
- Classroom/online/OJT
- Simulation
- Practice scenario
- OJT
- Workplace coaching
- Kirkpatrick
- Four evaluation levels
- Competency
- Verified task ability
- Records
- Documented completion
Common Traps
Hazard vs risk
Hazard can harm ≠ Risk ranks uncertainty
Eliminate vs PPE
Eliminate removes source ≠ PPE protects wearer
Leading vs lagging
Leading predicts losses ≠ Lagging records losses
Inherent vs residual
Inherent before controls ≠ Residual after controls
Response vs continuity
ERP handles incident ≠ BCP sustains operations
Tabletop vs drill
Tabletop discusses decisions ≠ Drill performs actions
P2 vs disposal
P2 prevents waste ≠ Disposal manages waste
Feedback vs transfer
Reaction is feedback ≠ Behavior shows transfer
Last Minute
- 1.Top domains: safety, program
- 2.Question count: 200 MCQ
- 3.Pass score: Not published
- 4.Controls: eliminate before PPE
- 5.PtD works before build
- 6.MOC before nonroutine change
- 7.Leading predicts; lagging records
- 8.RCA targets system causes
- 9.Risk = likelihood x severity
- 10.ERP handles emergency response
- 11.BCP restores critical operations
- 12.P2 prevents waste generation
- 13.AREC drives IH controls
- 14.Kirkpatrick ends with results
- 15.Retake wait: six weeks
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