Associate Safety Professionals (ASP) are safety practitioners who have shown an understanding of core safety, health, and environmental (SH&E) principles. Obtaining an ASP demonstrates to others that you are concerned about safety, validates your knowledge and abilities, and improves your career. The ASP qualifies for the Certified Safety Professional® (CSP®) certificate.

ASP REQUIREMENTS

1. Will have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in any field or an associate's in safety, health, or the environment

* The associate degree must include at least four courses with at least 12 semester hours/18 quarter hours of study in the safety, health, or environmental domains covered in the ASP examination blueprint

2. Will have one (1) year of safety experience where safety is at least 50%, preventative, professional level with breadth and depth of safety duties

3. Must pass the ASP examination

4. Maintenance of certification

• Annual renewal fee

• Recertification requirements

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN ASP EXAM?

• The ASP exam is a computer-based test that consists of 200 multiple-choice questions with four alternative responses and only one valid answer.

• The ASP test will take 5 hours to complete.

• Examinations are closed books, and access to external reference sources are not allowed during the examination.

  
  

  ASP COURSE SYLLABUS:

  
  

  The following is a summary of the test, including the key parts and their weight:

  
  

  Domain 1. Advanced Science and Math (11.55%)

  1. General chemistry concepts (e.g., nomenclature, balancing chemical equations, chemical reactions, ideal gas law, and pH)

  2. Electrical principles (e.g., Ohms law, power, impedance, energy, resistance, and circuits)

  3. Principles of radioactivity (e.g., radioactive decay, half-life, source strength, concentration, and inverse square law)

  4. Storage capacity calculations

  5. Rigging and load calculations

  6. Ventilation and system design

  7. Noise hazards

  8. Climate and environmental conditions (e.g., Wet-bulb Globe Temperature [WBGT], wind chill, and heat stress)

  9. Fall protection calculations

  10.General physics concepts (e.g., force, acceleration, velocity, momentum, and friction)

  11. Financial principles (e.g., cost-benefit analysis, cost of risk, life cycle cost, return on investment, and effects of losses) 12. Descriptive statistics (e.g., central tendency, variability, and probability)

  13. Lagging indicators (e.g., incidence rates, lost time, and direct costs of incidents)

  14. Leading indicators (e.g., inspection frequency, safety interventions, employee performance evaluations, training frequency, near miss, near hit, and close-call reporting)

  
  

  Domain 2. Safety Management Systems (17.22%)

  1. Hierarchy of hazard controls

  2. Risk transfer (e.g., insurance and outsourcing – such as incident management or subcontracting)

  3. Management of change

  4. Hazard and risk analysis methods (e.g., preliminary hazard analysis, subsystem hazard analysis, hazard and operability analysis, failure mode and effects analysis, fault tree analysis, fishbone, what-if, and checklist analysis, change analysis, energy trace and barrier [ETBS] analysis, and systematic cause analysis technique [SCAT])

  5. Process safety management

  6. Fleet safety principles (e.g., driver behavior, defensive driving, distracted driving, fatigue, and vehicle safety features)

  7. Hazard Communication and Globally Harmonized System

  8. Control of hazardous energy (e.g., lockout/Tagout)

  9. Excavation, trenching and shoring

  10. Confined space

  11. Physical security

  12. Fall protection

  13. Machine Guarding

  14. Powered industrial vehicles (e.g., trucks, forklifts, and cranes)

  15. Scaffolding

  
  

  Domain 3. Ergonomics (9%)

  1. Fitness for duty (e.g., fatigue and mental health)

  2. Stressors (e.g., environmental, lights, noise, and other conditions)

  3. Risk factors (e.g., repetition, force, posture, and vibration)

  4. Work design

  5. Material handling (e.g., manual, powered equipment, and lifting devices)

  6. Work practice controls (e.g., job rotation, work hardening, and early symptom intervention)

  
  

  Domain 4. Fire Prevention and Protection (10.66%)

  1. Chemical (e.g., flash point and auto ignition)

  2. Electrical (e.g., static electricity, surge, arc flash, ground fault circuit interrupter, and grounding and bonding)

  3. Hot work (e.g., welding, cutting, and brazing)

  4. Combustible dust

  5. Fire science (e.g., fire pentagon, fire tetrahedron, upper and lower explosive limits)

  6. Detection systems

  7. Suppression systems, fire extinguishers, sprinkler types

  8. Segregation and separation (e.g., flammable materials storage and ventilation)

  9. Housekeeping

  
  

  Domain 5. Emergency Response Management (9.57%)

  1. Emergency, crisis, disaster response planning (e.g., drills)

  2. Workplace violence (e.g., shooting, bomb threat, vandalism, and verbal threats)

  
  

  Domain 6. Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health (12.59%)

  1. Sources of biological hazards (e.g., viral, bacterial, parasitic, fungus, and mold)

  2. Protocol for bloodborne pathogen control

  3. Mutagens, teratogens, and carcinogens

  4. Chemical hazards (e.g., sources, assessment, control strategies, symptoms, and target organs)

  5. Exposure limits (e.g., Threshold Limit Value [TLV], Short-term exposure limits [STEL], Time-Weighted Average [TWA], Ceiling Limit, Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health [IDLH], and Action Level [AL])

  6. Routes of entry (e.g., inhalation, ingestion, absorption, and injection)

  7. Acute and chronic exposures (e.g., additive effect, synergistic effect, antagonistic effect, and potentiation effect)

  8. Noise

  9. Radiation

  10. Heat and cold stress

  
  

  Domain 7. Environmental Management (8.68%)

  1. Environmental hazards awareness (e.g., biological [mold], chemical, waste, and vermin)

  2. Water (e.g., storm, waste, and best practices)

  3. Air (e.g., quality and best practices)

  4. Land and conservation (e.g., solid waste, recycling, and sustainability)

  5. Hierarchy of conservation (e.g., reuse, recycle, and reduce)

  6. Environmental management system standards

  7. Waste removal, treatment, and disposal

  
  

  Domain 8. Training, Education &Communication (12.35%)

  1. Adult learning theory and techniques

  2. Presentation tools (e.g., computer-based and group meetings)

  3. Safety culture/climate

  4. Data collection, needs analysis, gap analysis, and feedback

  5. Assessing competency

  
  

  Domain 9. Law and Ethics (8.38%)

  1. Legal Liability

  2. Ethical behavior (e.g., professional practice, audits, record keeping, sampling, standard writing, and BCSP Code of Ethics)

  3. Protection of worker privacy (e.g., information)

This Practice test 1 & 2 consists of 400 multiple choice questions and answers from mixed 9 domains.

Most probably All answers with explanations. We have set a minimum of 60 percent to pass this ASP exam.

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