Intro to Explosive Safety Management
Exam with 100% Correct Answers 2023
Your role is to ensure the safety and serviceability of the stockpile and monitor AE
uploads, transportation, and storage activities. Who are you? – Correct answer-QASAS
You have been appointed as your installation’s safety chief. Who is responsible for
developing, implementing, and managing the ESP as part of the overall safety and
occupational health program for the installation? – Correct answer-installation
commander
If you are responsible for assisting commanders and staff with resolving explosives
safety concerns, which role do you have? – Correct answer-safety specialist
You are assigned to support tactical units regarding execution of ESMP. Who are you? –
Correct answer-Ammo Warrant Officer
The installation commander assigns one person as the POC for all ESMP activities.
Which role does that person fill? – Correct answer-Safety cheif
Colonel hires you as the occupational safety and health manager by what reg? – Correct
answer-DA PAM 385-64
UXO can be generated – Correct answer-in combat, live fire range, discarded by military
munition
UXO safety procedures – Correct answer-don’t touch, keep away, notify
ammo life cycle field – Correct answer-RDT&E, production, storage, ASP, range
ammo life cycle theater – Correct answer-port, storage, ASP, AHA, operational units
DDESB’s mission – Correct answer-create DoD ESP, ESP oversight, advise Secretary
of Defense about ESP progress
cardinal rule – Correct answer-expose minimumamountof people, minimum amount of
explosives, and minimum amount of time
after ammo leaves reserve, where does it go next? – Correct answer-ASP
what happens to unusable ammo? – Correct answer-demilitarization
document check list – Correct answer-DoDD 6055.09E, DoDI 6055.16, AR 385-10,
DoDD 6055.09M, DA PAM 385-64
You are working on new ES guidelines for the Army. What key principle should you
remember? – Correct answer-service standards can be more restrictive but not less than
DoD
Where are the minimum level protection regulations found for ES in all services? –
Correct answer-DoDD 6055.09M
advantages of DU – Correct answer-hard, easy to fabricate, dense, inexpensive, pyro
calibers of DU – Correct answer-20mm, 25mm, 30mm, 105mm, 120mm
HC 1.1 primary hazard is? – Correct answer-mass detonation
what is the primary hazard for mass fire? – Correct answer-1.3
If a vehicle is transporting a load of frag grenades, what signs would it have? – Correct
answer-1.2
If a vehicle is transporting a load ammo with fire risk, what signs would it have? –
Correct answer-1.4
What are uses for DUs? – Correct answer-aircraft counterweight, kinetic energy
projectile, protective armor plating, radiation shield material
basic ops inside an ammo magazine – Correct answer-banding and marking
basic ops outside an ammo magazine – Correct answer-removing grommets, plugs; air
testing; unpacking
An organization on your installation is preparing to deploy. Your team must prepare the
ammo for them. Which operations are you permitted to do INSIDE a magazine? –
Correct answer-inventory, inspecting, shipping
You must remove and replace grommets on AE at an ECM. How far from the exterior
side of the ECM do you have to perform this task? – Correct answer-50ft
You are tasked to unpack, link, and repack SAA at an AGM. How far from the AGM do
you have to be to perform this task? – Correct answer-100ft
You are inspecting an AGM and the ammo is stacked pretty high. What is the minimum
required distance it can be stacked from the ceiling? – Correct answer-18 inches
Your role is to ensure the safety and serviceability of the stockpile and monitor AE uploads, transportation, and storage activities. Who are you?
QASAS
You have been appointed as your installation’s safety chief. Who is responsible for developing, implementing, and managing the ESP as part of the overall safety and occupational health program for the installation?
installation commander
If you are responsible for assisting commanders and staff with resolving explosives safety concerns, which role do you have?
safety specialist
You are assigned to support tactical units regarding execution of ESMP. Who are you?
Ammo Warrant Officer
The installation commander assigns one person as the POC for all ESMP activities. Which role does that person fill?
Safety cheif
Colonel hires you as the occupational safety and health manager by what reg?
DA PAM 385-64
UXO can be generated
in combat, live fire range, discarded by military munition
UXO safety procedures
don’t touch, keep away, notify
ammo life cycle field
RDT&E, production, storage, ASP, range
ammo life cycle theater
port, storage, ASP, AHA, operational units
DDESB’s mission
create DoD ESP, ESP oversight, advise Secretary of Defense about ESP progress
cardinal rule
expose minimumamountof people, minimum amount of explosives, and minimum amount of time
after ammo leaves reserve, where does it go next?
ASP
what happens to unusable ammo?
demilitarization
document check list
DoDD 6055.09E, DoDI 6055.16, AR 385-10, DoDD 6055.09M, DA PAM 385-64
You are working on new ES guidelines for the Army. What key principle should you remember?
service standards can be more restrictive but not less than DoD
Where are the minimum level protection regulations found for ES in all services?
DoDD 6055.09M
advantages of DU
hard, easy to fabricate, dense, inexpensive, pyro
calibers of DU
20mm, 25mm, 30mm, 105mm, 120mm
HC 1.1 primary hazard is?
mass detonation
what is the primary hazard for mass fire?
1.3
If a vehicle is transporting a load of frag grenades, what signs would it have?
1.2
If a vehicle is transporting a load ammo with fire risk, what signs would it have?
1.4
What are uses for DUs?
aircraft counterweight, kinetic energy projectile, protective armor plating, radiation shield material
basic ops inside an ammo magazine
banding and marking
basic ops outside an ammo magazine
removing grommets, plugs; air testing; unpacking
An organization on your installation is preparing to deploy. Your team must prepare the ammo for them. Which operations are you permitted to do INSIDE a magazine?
inventory, inspecting, shipping
You must remove and replace grommets on AE at an ECM. How far from the exterior side of the ECM do you have to perform this task?
50ft
You are tasked to unpack, link, and repack SAA at an AGM. How far from the AGM do you have to be to perform this task?
100ft
You are inspecting an AGM and the ammo is stacked pretty high. What is the minimum required distance it can be stacked from the ceiling?
18 inches
You know the safety office is conducting random inspections of magazines. Which of these ammunition storage guidelines apply?
ammo can’t touch walls an exit can’t be blocked
Ammo encounters electrical energy from
lightening, circuits, static, electromagnetic
conductive floors are tested
after installation, renovation, semi-annually
Dumley just finished reviewing the SOP. How often does he need to inspect conductive flooring?
daily
When does Dumley need to test his conductive shoes?
daily, at issue
You will be working in the ammo operations area today. Which clothing material should you wear to prevent static?
cotton
Which is a common source of static electricity?
steam, air, materials passing through chutes, moving parts
controlled burns
100 ft away, building ventilators must be closed, rear vent of ECMs must be covered, hoses ready
You need to ensure there are firebreaks around your AGMs. What is the minimum distance the firebreak must be from each AGM?
50ft
While clearing a magazine for fire prevention you notice there are no fire extinguishers in any of the magazines. How many hazard-specific fire extinguishers must be readily accessible where ammo is being handled?
2
You are scheduling a controlled burn to prevent fires. This activity must be located at least how many feet away from an open storage area or building handling ammunition?
100ft
You are inspecting a magazine and it has no fire symbols. You know the DODIC has the abbreviation BBC beside it. Which Fire Symbols should be on the magazine?
symbol 1 set 2
You must inspect several operating buildings. Which of these is a requirement for operating building exits?
self closing doors that swing outward
You are working on a protective construction design. All of these are considerations you must make for AE storage and operating buildings EXCEPT
container locks
One of your facilities requires a change in NEW requirements. Can you modify an approved construction design to meet NEW requirements for it?
No
Risk Management Process
identify, assess, develop, implement, supervise
Your installation has a mission change and timeline that requires the major modification of structures. These modifications will violate explosive safety standards. Which of these deviations do you need?
CCR
You are planning an amnesty day at your installation. Which of these is a true statement about amnesty turn-ins?
ASP accepts without turn-in documents, exempt from AR 190
When conducting an amnesty day, which of these are true statements about amnesty boxes?
designated personnel can only check, protected from weather
The new commander at your installation needs to know who should be on the Real Property Planning Board. Which of these individuals should be members of the board?
garrison commander, safety office, environmental coordinator
You are preparing for a presentation with your installation commander about the Real Property Master Plan. Which of these goals will you NOT include in your briefing?
defines installations mission and AE requirements
Real Property Master Plan
shows all installation buildings, roadmap, manage installation space
The installation commander told you to redesignate a temporary ammo storage site as a permanent explosives site. What do you need to do?
submit a ESQD modification plan
The installation administration building at an army ammunition plant is an example of?
ES
You find non-standard AE on the live fire range and you don’t know what hazard class or storage compatibility group it belongs to. What do you consider it?
SCG K
A howitzer catches on fire after being fired causing the firing tube to bend. What is the class of the incident?
Class B
what does it mean if an ammo is approved-nickel-plated and fluted for SAA training?
inert ammo
items considered HERO susceptible
may be degraded due to exposure to an RF environment
EED-equipped ammo can be considered HERO safe when
it is in approved packaging
you need to identify ammo specific requirements for malfunctions, where can you find this information?
AR 75-1
during a malfunction investigation, what does the SO role include?
ensuring prop procedures were followed, deciding is additional procedures are needed, ensuring the lot is safe
a load of ammo from the ASP has to go back into storage. Which task can be performed OUTSIDE the magazine?
removing grommets, marking containers, unpacking SAA
one method of preventing static electricity inside an operation area is the use of
conductive flooring system