Introduction to Explosives Safety for Safety
Professionals Questions With 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? - 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? -
ANSWER-Installation Commander
If you are responsible for assisting commanders and staff with resolving explosives
safety concerns, which role do you have? - ANSWER-Safety Specialist
If you are assigned to support tactical units regarding execution of ESMP. Who are
you? - ANSWER-Ammunition Warrant Officer
The Installation Commander assigns one person as the POC for all ESMP activities.
Which role does that person fill? - ANSWER-Occupational Health and Safety Manager
Which three of these statements are part of the DDESB's mission? Select all that apply.
- 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 - ANSWER-minimum
amount of explosives for the minimum about of time
Ammunition is distributed to units from - ANSWER-the ASP
Ammunition that is old, doesn't work, or is otherwise unusable belongs in which life
cycle stage? - ANSWER-Demilitarization
Which two of these could have generated the UXO? Select all that apply. - 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. - 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? -
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? -
ANSWER-DESR 6055.09
What is the primary hazard for HC 1.1? - ANSWER-Mass detonation
Which placard must be attached to a load with a primary hazard of mass fire? -
ANSWER-Explosives 1.3 1
Which placard indicates fragmentation as the primary hazard? - ANSWER-Explosives
1.2 1
Which placard must be displayed on a vehicle transporting a load of ammunition with a
moderate risk of fire? - ANSWER-1.4 Explosives 1
What are four uses for DU - 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? - 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? - ANSWER-Propogation
Which ESQD term applies to Lil' T's? - ANSWER-PES
Which three items are addressed in an ESSP? - ANSWER-Construction considerations
Master plan reconciliation
Quantity distance analysis
Under which two circumstances would an ESSP be updated? - 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? - ANSWER-It is in the
passenger compartment.
It is not secure.
Professionals Questions With 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? - 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? -
ANSWER-Installation Commander
If you are responsible for assisting commanders and staff with resolving explosives
safety concerns, which role do you have? - ANSWER-Safety Specialist
If you are assigned to support tactical units regarding execution of ESMP. Who are
you? - ANSWER-Ammunition Warrant Officer
The Installation Commander assigns one person as the POC for all ESMP activities.
Which role does that person fill? - ANSWER-Occupational Health and Safety Manager
Which three of these statements are part of the DDESB's mission? Select all that apply.
- 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 - ANSWER-minimum
amount of explosives for the minimum about of time
Ammunition is distributed to units from - ANSWER-the ASP
Ammunition that is old, doesn't work, or is otherwise unusable belongs in which life
cycle stage? - ANSWER-Demilitarization
Which two of these could have generated the UXO? Select all that apply. - 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. - 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? -
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? -
ANSWER-DESR 6055.09
What is the primary hazard for HC 1.1? - ANSWER-Mass detonation
Which placard must be attached to a load with a primary hazard of mass fire? -
ANSWER-Explosives 1.3 1
Which placard indicates fragmentation as the primary hazard? - ANSWER-Explosives
1.2 1
Which placard must be displayed on a vehicle transporting a load of ammunition with a
moderate risk of fire? - ANSWER-1.4 Explosives 1
What are four uses for DU - 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? - 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? - ANSWER-Propogation
Which ESQD term applies to Lil' T's? - ANSWER-PES
Which three items are addressed in an ESSP? - ANSWER-Construction considerations
Master plan reconciliation
Quantity distance analysis
Under which two circumstances would an ESSP be updated? - 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? - ANSWER-It is in the
passenger compartment.
It is not secure.
