Introduction to Explosives Safety for Safety Professionals
exam 2023 with 100% correct answers
Your role is to ensure the safety and serviceability of the stockpile and monitor A&E
uploads, transportation, and storage activities. Who are you? – Correct Answer QASAS
You have been appointed as your installation’s Occupational Health and Safety
Manager. 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
If you are assigned to support tactical units regarding execution of ESMP. Who are
you? – Correct Answer Ammunition Warrant Officer
The Installation Commander assigns one person as the POC for all ESMP activities.
Which role does that person fill? – Correct Answer Occupational Health and Safety
Manager
Which three of these statements are part of the DDESB’s mission? Select all that apply.
- Correct Answer Advise the Secretary of Defense and the Services about ESP
progress and challenges annually.
Create and maintain the DoD ESP.
Provide ESP oversight and technical expertise to the Services.
The Cardinal Rule exposes the minimum number of people to the – Correct Answer
minimum amount of explosives for the minimum about of time
Ammunition is distributed to units from – Correct Answer the ASP
Ammunition that is old, doesn’t work, or is otherwise unusable belongs in which life
cycle stage? – Correct Answer Demilitarization
Which two of these could have generated the UXO? Select all that apply. – Correct
Answer Combat
Live fire ranges
You get a call from the live fire range that someone suspects they’ve found UXO. Which
three of these things do you tell them to do? Select all that apply. – Correct Answer
Contact the proper authorities
Don’t touch the item
Keep others away
You are working on new explosives safety guidelines for the Army. What is the key
principle you must remember when applying Service publication safety standards? –
Correct Answer Service standards can be more restrictive, but never less restrictive
than the DoD standard.
Based on what you just learned about the different publications, where would you go to
find the minimum level of protection all Services must provide for explosives safety? –
Correct Answer DESR 6055.09
What is the primary hazard for HC 1.1? – Correct Answer Mass detonation
Which placard must be attached to a load with a primary hazard of mass fire? – Correct
Answer Explosives 1.3 1
Which placard indicates fragmentation as the primary hazard? – Correct Answer
Explosives 1.2 1
Which placard must be displayed on a vehicle transporting a load of ammunition with a
moderate risk of fire? – Correct Answer 1.4 Explosives 1
What are four uses for DU – Correct Answer Aircraft counterweight
Kinetic energy projectile
Protective armor plating
Radiation shielding material
Which option shows the three hazards for DU in order from most hazardous to least
hazardous? – Correct Answer Explosive, chemical, radiological
If the quantity of explosives in a magazine exceeds the allowed safe storage limit (QD),
what could cause the adjacent structures to explode as well? – Correct Answer
Propogation
Which ESQD term applies to Lil’ T’s? – Correct Answer PES
Which three items are addressed in an ESSP? – Correct Answer Construction
considerations
Master plan reconciliation
Quantity distance analysis
Under which two circumstances would an ESSP be updated? – Correct Answer
Increasing the explosive limit of an existing potential explosion site (PES)
Planning a new explosives storage building for construction
Which two load transportation violations are shown in the photo? – Correct Answer It is
in the passenger compartment.
It is not secure.