Explosives safety Exam with complete solutions

What is the cardinal rule for explosives safety? - Answer- MIN-MIN-MIN What are the tree mins? - Answer- Minimum people Minimum explosives Minimum time What type of personnel is for non-essential personnel with limited access? - Answer- Visitors What must happen if you have visitors - Answer- Shut down all operations What type of personnel is not normally part of the operation, but has duties that require their presence (QA, medical, safety, inspection personnel)? - Answer- Casuals What is a class 1 hazard - Answer- explosives What does this describe: -The most dangerous of all explosives. -Principle hazard is blast -Bombs, demolition charges, mines... - Answer- 1.1 Mass Explosion What does this describe: -High speed fragments -Includes associated blast hazard -Air to air missiles warheads, Bomb fuses - Answer- 1.2 Non-mass explosion, fragment producing What do fire symbols/placards do? - Answer- -Provide a general warning -Furnish specific guidance for first responders -First responders can assess the threat from a distance What is a location / facility that contains / is expected to contain explosives? - Answer- Potential Explosion Site (PES) BX, Hospital, Commissary, AMU building and Munitions Flight Office are examples of what? - Answer- Exposed Site Minimum distance between PESs to prevents one PES from simultaneously detonating an adjacent PES - Answer- Intermagazine Distance (IMD) Minimum distance between a PES and an ES that is related to the explosive operation - Answer- Intraline Distance (ILD) Minimum distance required to protect public traffic routes from PESs - Answer- Public Traffic Route Distance (PTRD) Minimum distance between a PES and ES that is NOT related to the explosive operation - Answer- Inhabited Building Distance (IBD) What is an engineering solution that decreases the risk when necessary distances are unavailable - Answer- Barricades The following is the fire procedures for what: withdrawal distances vary, in a fire is normally 4,000 feet Do not fight fire unless planned rescue attempt - Answer- HD 1.1 The following is the fire procedures for what: -general withdrawal distance in a fire is normally 2,500 feet Attempt to fight fire, only in the early stages of the fire Detonation of items could occur Provide protection from fragments - Answer- HD 1.2 The following is the fire procedures for what: -general withdrawal distance in a fire is normally 600 feet Fire may be fought if explosives are not directly involved in the flames - Answer- HD 1.3 The following is the fire procedures for what: -general withdrawal distance in a fire is 300 feet Fight these fires - Answer- HD 1.4 What does this describe: Area contains small amounts of explosives, normally outside the MSA (Security Forces, Egress, Aircrew Flight Equipment, etc.) - Answer- Licensed Location Who approves the license? - Answer- Installation Safety Office What are Licensed locations not allowed to store? - Answer- HD 1.1 Max amount at a Licensed location for HD1.2 - Answer- 50-100lbs Max amount at a Licensed location for HD1.3 - Answer- 100lbs What does this describe: -QD calculations apply -Contain large amounts of explosives / inside / outside the MSA -Identified in the installation's Explosive Site Plan (ESP) - Answer- Sited Location What are the three forward firing munitions? - Answer- Guns Missiles or Rockets Flare dispensers