Management Systems
22%of exam
Risk Management
22%of exam
SH&E Concepts
24%of exam
ChemicalsElectricalErgonomicsMachine Hazards
Incidents + Emergency
18%of exam
Causal AnalysisRatesICSEmergency Plans
Business Case
14%of exam
CultureLeadershipCostsCommunication
Quick Facts
- Credential
- SMP
- Owner
- BCSP
- Delivery
- Pearson VUE
- Exam items
- 200
- Time
- 4.5 hours
- Experience
- 10 years
- Safety tasks
- 35%+
- Exam fee
- $350
- App fee
- $160
- Weights
- 21.7/22/24.4/18.1/13.8
PDCA
Plan, do, check, act
PlanDoCheckAct
Audit vs Inspection
Audit
- System conformance
- Evidence sampling
- Process focused
Inspection
- Condition snapshot
- Hazard focused
- Field observation
System vs condition
Safety Systems
- SMS
- Organized safety framework
- Policy
- Leadership direction
- Objectives
- Measurable safety goals
- Procedures
- Defined work methods
- Responsibilities
- Assigned accountabilities
- Resources
- People budget tools
- Continual improvement
- Ongoing system repair
- Management review
- Leadership performance check
Training + Audits
- Competency
- Proven ability
- Training need
- Gap to close
- Refresher
- Periodic retraining
- Audit
- System conformance check
- Inspection
- Condition snapshot
- Finding
- Evidence-based gap
- Corrective action
- Assigned fix
- Verification
- Confirm fix works
MOC + Contractors
- MOC
- Review before change
- Trigger
- Process equipment people
- Pre-startup
- Check before use
- Contractor prequal
- Screen safety history
- Orientation
- Site rules briefing
- Multi-employer
- Shared worksite risk
- Job briefing
- Task hazard talk
- Stop work
- Pause unsafe task
Control Order
Eliminate before guarding; PPE last
EliminateSubstituteEngineerAdminPPE
Hazard vs Risk
Hazard
- Can cause harm
- Source condition
- Identify first
Risk
- Chance and severity
- Prioritized level
- Evaluate controls
Source vs likelihood
Control Picker
- Remove source→Elimination(Best control)
- Use safer option→Substitution(Reduce hazard)
- Separate worker→Engineering(Physical barrier)
- Change behavior→Administrative(Procedure training)
- Worker exposed→PPE(Last barrier)
- New design→PtD(Prevent early)
Risk Tools
- Hazard
- Source of harm
- Risk
- Likelihood times severity
- Exposure
- Contact opportunity
- Risk matrix
- Ranked risk grid
- JHA
- Task hazard breakdown
- FMEA
- Failure mode ranking
- HAZOP
- Process deviation study
- Residual risk
- Risk after controls
Engineering vs PPE
Engineering
- Isolates hazard
- Less behavior reliance
- Higher hierarchy
PPE
- Worn by worker
- Last defense
- Needs fit
Design vs wearer
Risk Picker
- New hazard→Identify(List sources)
- Rank priority→Risk matrix(Severity likelihood)
- Exposure unknown→Sampling(Measure dose)
- Process change→MOC(Review first)
- Contractor onsite→Prequal orient(Shared risk)
- Residual high→Add controls(Reevaluate)
Controls
- Elimination
- Remove hazard
- Substitution
- Use safer option
- Engineering
- Isolate people
- Administrative
- Change work practice
- PPE
- Last barrier
- PtD
- Design hazard out
- ALARP
- Reduce practicably
- Control review
- Check effectiveness
SH&E Hazards
- Noise
- Hearing exposure
- Vibration
- Hand-body stress
- Radiation
- Ionizing nonionizing energy
- Electrical
- Shock arc burns
- Ergonomics
- Fit task to worker
- Confined space
- Limited entry hazard
- Machine guarding
- Block moving parts
- Slips trips
- Walking surface hazards
Chemical + Exposure
- GHS
- Hazard communication system
- SDS
- Chemical safety data
- PEL
- Legal exposure limit
- TLV
- Advisory exposure limit
- TWA
- Time-weighted average
- STEL
- Short-term limit
- Dose
- Amount received
- Route
- Inhale skin ingest
Incident vs Near Miss
Incident
- Harm or loss
- Record maybe
- Investigate causes
Near Miss
- No harm
- High learning
- Fix weakness
Loss vs potential
Incident Picker
- Injury occurs→Medical first(Stabilize)
- Scene unsafe→Control hazards(Prevent more)
- Evidence present→Preserve facts(Photos notes)
- Causes unclear→Causal analysis(Systems focus)
- Fix chosen→Assign owner(Track closure)
- Plan gap→Drill review(Improve ERP)
Incident Metrics
- Incident
- Unplanned event
- Near miss
- No harm event
- First aid
- Minor treatment
- Recordable
- OSHA log case
- TRIR
- Total recordable rate
- DART
- Restricted transfer rate
- Lost time
- Days away
- Severity rate
- Lost-day measure
Investigation + Emergency
- Scene control
- Secure evidence
- Witness
- Interview early
- Root cause
- System weakness
- Barrier analysis
- Failed controls
- Corrective plan
- Actions owners dates
- ERP
- Emergency response plan
- ICS
- Incident command structure
- Drill
- Practice response
Indicator Memory
Lagging counts harm; leading predicts
LaggingLeadingImprove
Leading vs Lagging
Leading
- Before harm
- Predictive
- Activity measure
Lagging
- After harm
- Outcome measure
- Injury counts
Predict vs count
Business + Culture
- Direct cost
- Medical indemnity repair
- Indirect cost
- Hidden productivity loss
- Cost-benefit
- Benefits versus costs
- ROI
- Return on investment
- Leading indicator
- Predictive activity measure
- Lagging indicator
- After-harm measure
- Safety culture
- Shared safety values
- Generative culture
- Safety integrated everywhere
Direct vs Indirect
Direct
- Medical costs
- Claims payments
- Repair costs
Indirect
- Lost productivity
- Training replacements
- Morale impact
Visible vs hidden
Leadership + Comms
- Stakeholder
- Affected interested party
- Technical brief
- Complex info simplified
- Safety meeting
- Hazard communication forum
- Conflict
- Resolve constructively
- Ethics
- BCSP conduct rules
- Directive
- Written safety instruction
- Commitment
- Visible leadership support
- Participation
- Worker involvement
Common Traps
PPE Is Last
Worker dependent ≠ Not primary
Training Needs Proof
Attendance alone ≠ Competency unproven
Inspection Is Narrower
Finds conditions ≠ Not full system
Near Miss Still Matters
No injury ≠ System warning
Lagging Trails Harm
After event ≠ Not predictive
Indirect Costs Hide
Morale downtime ≠ Often larger
Last Minute
- 1.Use current SMP2 weights
- 2.Hierarchy controls before PPE
- 3.Risk equals likelihood severity
- 4.MOC before process change
- 5.Audit systems; inspect conditions
- 6.Secure scene before analysis
- 7.Root cause means system weakness
- 8.Leading predicts; lagging counts
- 9.Business case includes hidden costs
- 10.BCSP ethics applies always
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