| Sample
CRSPEX Questions
Accident
Theory (AT)
1.
Unwanted energy flow is:
A.
Uncontrolled energy flow that can be directed to do unwanted work.
B. A high-energy component involved in an energy release.
C. A by-product of high-energy environment production.
D. A term used in the field of stress management.
2.
ISMEC is the acronym for:
A.
Illustrating work, Starting task, Mentoring worker, Estimating
difficulty, Commending success.
B. Illuminating roles, Sending signals, Managing stress, Evaluating
performance, Counting mistakes.
C. Identification of work, Standards established, Measuring performance,
Evaluating performance, Correcting deficiencies (and commending
success).
D. Identification of risks, Standards of performance, Managing
people, Evaluating performance, Correcting mistakes (and commending
success).
Environmental
Practices (EP)
3.
A medium size company that continually engages in environmentally
hazardous activities has:
A.
Considered the potential effects of failing to have a corporate
environmental policy.
B. Staffed technically competent professionals with environmental
responsibility.
C. Failed to consider the potential benefits of an active environmental
management system.
D. Funded environmental programs with senior management commitment.
4.
One purpose of an environmental audit is to:
A.
Assess the management systems related to environmental issues.
B. Review environmental risks associated with the site and site
operation.
C. Identify staff with environmental responsibilities.
D. Review training records of staff tasked with handling environmentally
sensitive substances.
Ergonomics
(ERG)
5.
One kind of muscular effort can be described as static. Static effort
is characterized as:
A.
An alternation between contraction and extension of the muscles.
B. Tension and relaxation of the muscles.
C. A prolonged state of contraction of the muscles.
D. Change in rhythm of the muscle length.
6. When evaluating repetitive work, the key factors to be considered
include:
A.
The average number of lifts per minute over a fifteen-minute period.
B. The duration of the shift and the repetition rate and recovery
time provided.
C. The position of the joints when the task is performed; the
force exerted and the repetition rate or amount of recovery time
provided.
D. The level of fatigue and boredom that may affect the worker’s
ability to perform the task well.
Fire
Prevention and Protection (FPP)
7.
A systematic approach to fire protection systems’ inspection,
testing and maintenance should follow guidelines established by
the manufacturers and by:
A.
NFPA
B. NRC
C. Factory Mutual
D. Underwriters’ Laboratories
8.
In Canada, the National Building Code and the National Fire Code
are developed under the:
A.
Underwriters Laboratories Canada Inc.
B. Factory Mutual
C. Canadian Standards Association
D. National Research Council
Health
Promotion (HP)
9.
A treating physician can provide the following information to the
employer about an injured worker:
A.
The patient’s treatment for healing
B. A diagnosis of patient’s condition.
C. A prognosis of patient’s condition.
D. Any restrictions on patient activities.
10.
A strategy that gives structure and organization to the activity
of returning injured workers to the workplace as soon as possible
following a work related accident is a definition of a:
A.
Modified Work Program
B. Claims Management Program
C. Vocational Rehabilitation Program
D. Disability Management Program
Law and Ethics (LE)
11.
A ‘procedural’ approach to regulation:
A.
Sets a general standard that you must meet without much concern
about how you meet it.
B. Sets out the requirements of procedural justice.
C. Sets out the rules of the Court.
D. Sets out detailed rules telling you how to reach a standard.
12.
A ‘privative clause’:
A.
Is a provision in a contract that is secret.
B. Is a clause that concerns the legal right to hygiene facilities
in the workplace.
C. Prevents a person from appealing an administrator’s decision.
D. Prevents people from opting out of the OHS system through contract.
Occupational
Health Safety and Environment Systems (OES)
13.
The effective manager in the emerging workplace recognizes as foundational
goals:
A.
High productivity and low operating costs.
B. High performance and low labour conflict.
C. High performance and satisfaction among team members.
D. High productivity and low loss rates.
14.
In the field of management theory, “Theory Z” refers
to:
A.
High-risk, potentially high-return preferences.
B. Managing by cultural norms.
C. Adherence to Japanese management principles.
D. Eastern European management principles.
Occupational
Hygiene (OH)
15.
A worker in a noisy environment was monitored for 8 hours and subject
to the following exposures. 4 hrs at 80dBA (allowable exposure time
24 hours), 2 hrs at 85dBA (allowable exposure time 8 hrs), and 2
hours at 90dBA (allowable exposure time 2 hrs). During the 8 hours
was the worker:
A.
Overexposed.
B. At the allowable exposure level.
C. Not overexposed.
D. Significantly overexposed.
16.
Which chemical exposure was associated with a liver cancer called
angiosarcoma?
A.
Trichloroethylene.
B. Vinyl chloride
C. Lead
D. Asbestos
Risk
Management (RM)
17.
The safety practitioner will approach risk management as:
A.
A management system directed at influencing worker behaviour,
with emphasis on worker safety and health.
B. A system designed to manage quality and process safety.
C. A system-wide assessment of risks and risk control, with emphasis
on worker safety and health.
D. A responsibility for the safety practitioner to document all
workplace related risks and develop controls for the identified
risks.
18.
Perceptions of risk may affect the tolerance for certain types of
hazards. Which of the following may bias the judgement of one of
the affected parties?
A.
Scientific evidence not containing sufficient evidence to support
a potential for harm.
B. Value assumptions; or, subjective interpretations of evidence
based on personal or societal values.
C. The principle of achieving a technically agreeable control
measure.
D. All occupational hazards should be measure using the ‘precautionary
principle’.
Safety
Techniques and Technology (STT)
19.
The term ‘protective factor’ in respiratory protection
is used to describe:
A.
The overall life expectancy the user can expect to get from the
equipment.
B. The overall effectiveness of a respirator and the nature of
contaminants.
C. The degree of inhalation resistance the equipment’s material
has been rated for.
D. The amount of training the wearer is required to have before
using the equipment.
20.
Portable conveyors are equipped with skirtboards or sideboards because:
A.
They permit access to the point of operation.
B. They provide complete guarding of the in-running nip hazard.
C. They prevent operators from reaching into the conveyor.
D. They keep material from falling over the sides.
Case Study - Occupational Hygiene (OH)
Occupational
dermatitis represents one of the most common forms of occupational
disease. The significance of dermal [skin] absorption in terms of
overall body burden of chemicals is still largely unknown.
In
1997, a single incident focused the attention of health and safety
professionals on to the seriousness of dermal exposure. A professor
of chemistry died of mercury intoxication, days after a brief exposure
to dimethyl mercury. The occasion occurred in the laboratory when
the chemical leaked across a latex glove.
1.
How could this fatality have been prevented?
A. The ventilation rate in the laboratory fumehood could have
been increased, thereby increasing the evaporation rate.
B. The professor of chemistry should have recognized the hazard
and taken appropriate precautions.
C. The glove selection should have been impermeable to the chemical
used.
D. The latex glove may have been old or compromised.
2.
How could a safety practitioner have assisted in a prevention program?
A.
The CRSP could have checked the fumehood flow rate and set out
a regular maintenance schedule.
B. The CRSP could have completed a risk assessment, noting the
chemicals and PPE in use.
C. The CRSP could have initiated a chemical inventory program
for the laboratory.
D. The CRSP could have completed a risk assessment, noting the
chemicals and PPE in use, for the laboratory manager with recommended
controls.
3.
What is the most common approach used to assess skin exposure to
a contaminant?
A.
Biological monitoring is commonly used to assess total body burden
of chemical contaminants.
B. Critical flux is the dose resulting from inhalation exposure
combined with dermal exposure.
C. Using pads or dosimeters to determine the amount of contaminant
deposited on the skin.
D. There is no recognized approach to assess skin exposure to
a contaminant.
ANSWERS FOR SAMPLE CRSPEX QUESTIONS AND CASE STUDY
Accident
Theory (AT)
Question
1: Correct answer - B
Justification:
The choice of A is clearly wrong with the inclusion of the words
‘unwanted work’. C and D are distracters using ‘by-product’
and ‘stress management’ inappropriately. The energy
models discussed in the Study Guide emphasize the release of unwanted
energy as a component of accident causation.
Source:
BCRSP’s Guide to Registration – Accident Theory (AT)
Study Guide, Energy Models (Ball’s Energy Model) and CAN/CSA-Z796-98
Question
2: Correct answer - C
Justification:
This illustrated an important change in accident theory between
the earlier Bird theory along with Heinrich’s original model
of ‘blaming’ the worker for accidents, and a shift to
a systems or management control model. A, B and D were all used
as distracters in this question.
Source:
BCRSP’s Guide to Registration – Accident Theory (AT)
Study Guide, Bird’s up-dated accident sequence.
Environmental
Practices (EP)
Question
3: Correct answer: C
Justification:
All of the answers could apply to a medium size company; however,
the question relates to ‘continual risky activities’
and therefore the only correct answer would be C.
Source:
Accident Prevention Manual for Business and Industry, 2nd Edition,
Environmental Management, National Safety Council, p. 343-344
Question
4: Correct answer: B
Justification:
The audit is conducted to ‘review environmental risks’
not ‘assess’ or ‘identify’. Training records
of staff should be part of the company personnel safety and environmental
procedures and do not form part of an environmental audit process.
Source:
Accident Prevention Manual for Business and Industry, 2nd Edition,
Environmental Management, National Safety Council, p. 347
Ergonomics (ERG)
Question
5: Correct answer: C
Justification:
The correct answer is related to only one state; static, means virtually
unmoving. Therefore ‘a prolonged state of contraction’
clearly describes the circumstance.
Source:
Fitting the Task to the Human, 5th Edition, K.H.E. Kroemer and E.
Grandjean, Taylor and Francis, p. 7
Question
6: Correct answer: C
Justification:
Although all of the answers contain some element of truth, C is
the only one that gathers all of the factors together; duration,
rate, force and repetition/recovery.
Source:
Accident Prevention Manual for Business and Industry, 12th Edition,
Administration and Programs, National Safety Council, Ergonomic
Program Repetitive Work, p. 405
Fire
Prevention and Protection (FPP)
Question
7: Correct answer: A
Justification:
NFPA Standards have been adopted by many Canadian jurisdictions
giving them the force of law when referenced in a regulation or
code. B, C, and D all refer to standard making organizations; however
their guidelines and standards often defer to, or reference the
National Fire Protection Association Standards.
Source:
BCRSP’s Guide to Registration – Fire Prevention and
Protection (FPP) Study Guide, Care, Maintenance and Inspection and
The Fire Safety Management Handbook, 2nd Edition, Daniel E. Della-Giustina,
Ph.D., American Society of Safety Engineers
Question
8: Correct answer: D
Justification:
The NRC develops the Codes on a consensus basis through committees
of various stakeholders.
Source:
BCRSP’s Guide to Registration – Fire Prevention and
Protection (FPP) Study Guide, Care, Maintenance and Inspection and
The Fire Safety Management Handbook, 2nd Edition, Daniel E. Della-Giustina,
Ph.D., American Society of Safety Engineers
Health
Promotion (HP)
Question
9: Correct answer: D
Justification:
Confidentiality of medical information limits the physician’s
ability to provide the employer with any information on the patient
other than that described in D.
Source:
Disability Management: Theory, Strategy and Industry Practice, Dianne
Dyck, Butterworths
Question
10: Correct answer: D
Justification:
The key to this question is the descriptor, ‘strategy that
gives structure and organization’. Thus, a disability management
program may contain all the other programs in its scope.
Source:
Disability Management: Theory, Strategy and Industry Practice, Dianne
Dyck, ISBN 0-433-42413-3, Butterworths
Law
and Ethics (LE)
Question 11: Correct answer: D
Justification:
A regulation is the detailed legal authority, whereas an Act is
the basic legal authority. Some jurisdictions are including performance
standards into their procedural regulations; this will allow the
organization to measure their procedures against the minimum legal
standard for compliance.
Source:
Occupational Health and Safety Law, Dr. Peter Strahlendorf, CRSP,
School of Occupational and Public Health, Ryerson University
Question
12: Correct answer: C
Justification:
Workers’ compensation is a provincial matter. The study guide
confirms that CRSP’s need to know the various compensation
regimes in which they operate. Privacy clauses exist in compensation
law to limit the appeal process. For example: ‘an action or
decision of the _____ under this Act is final and is not open to
question or review in a court.’
Source:
Occupational Health and Safety Law, Dr. Peter Strahlendorf, CRSP,
School of Occupational and Public Health, Ryerson University
Occupational
Health Safety and Environment Systems (OES)
Question
13: Correct answer: C
Justification:
The author emphasizes that C result in sustained performance of
the team members.
Source:
BCRSP’s Guide to Registration – Occupational Health
Safety and Environment Systems (OES) Study Guide, “Managers
and Organizations”
Question
14: Correct answer: C
Justification:
The answer is discussed in the study guide under OES, Comparative
Management Practices. Theory Z (Wm. Ouchi) refers to Japanese management
practices and business success.
Source:
BCRSP’s Guide to Registration – Occupational Health
Safety and Environment Systems (OES) Study Guide, “Comparative
Management Practices”
Occupational Hygiene (OH)
Question
15: Correct answer: A
Justification:
Without regard for possible differences in jurisdictional approach
to allowable exposure to noise, the participant is being asked to
solve this question using a mathematical formula available in most
hygiene resource manuals. When the daily noise exposure is composed
of two or more periods of exposure at different levels, the combined
effect should be considered. If the sum of the fractions of the
exposure exceeds 100%, then the mixed exposure should be considered
to exceed the allowable limit value.
D =
C1 + C2 + C3 + … Cn
T1 T2 T3 Tn
D =
dose; C = exposure time at a particular level; T = total time allowed
at that noise level.
Source: BCRSP’s Guide to Registration – Occupational
Hygiene (OH) Study Guide and The Occupational Environment –
Its Evaluation and Control, Salvatore R. DiNardi, Editor, American
Industrial Hygiene Association, Noise, Chapter 20, p. 436
Question
16: Correct answer: B
Justification:
This association of chemical exposure to vinyl chloride monomer,
resulting in a rare form of liver cancer, has been published in
occupational hygiene literature for the past 15 years.
Source:
The Occupational Environment – Its Evaluation and Control,
Salvatore R. DiNardi, Editor, American Industrial Hygiene Association,
Occupational Toxicology, p. 81
Risk
Management (RM)
Question
17: Correct answer: C
Justification:
C is the only possible correct choice, as risk management has nothing
to do with ‘influencing worker behaviour’ or ‘quality
and process safety’. It is no longer acceptable to ‘blame
the worker’ as a result of assessing risk. Nor does risk management
direct the safety practitioner to ‘develop controls’
for all identified risks.
Source:
BCRSP’s Guide to Registration – Risk Management (RM)
Study Guide, What is Risk Management Source listed, “Risk
Management; a Primer for Canadians”, 1.1-1.3
Question
18: Correct answer: B
Justification:
The correct answer contains language that should be a dead give-away,
‘subjective interpretation’ based on ‘personal
values’.
Source:
BCRSP’s Guide to Registration – Risk Management (RM)
Study Guide, Decision Making in Risk Management Primer, 1.12-1.18
Safety Techniques and Technology (STT)
Question 19: Correct answer: B
Justification:
The assigned protective factor (APF) of respirators has been published
by NIOSH and ANSI. The three other possible answers are all distracters.
Source:
BCRSP’s Guide to Registration – Safety Techniques and
Technology (STT) Study Guide and Accident Prevention Manual for
Business and Industry, 12th Edition, Administration and Programs
and Engineering and Technology, National Safety Council, personal
protective equipment
Question
20: Correct answer: D
Justification:
There may be an element of truth to A, B and C; however, skirting
and sideboards describe a specific control to prevent material from
falling from a conveyor. Portable conveyors require the same level
of guarding as do fixed conveyor systems.
Source:
Accident Prevention Manual for Business and Industry, 12th Edition,
Administration and Programs and Engineering and Technology, National
Safety Council, personal protective equipment, p. 481
Case Study (Occupational Hygiene)
Case
Study 1: Correct answer: C
Justification:
A is clearly wrong, as the ventilation plays no role in this scenario.
B is wrong as we must not ‘blame the worker’ and the
professor may have known all the chemical hazards related to the
dimethyl mercury, but was unaware of the permeability of the selected
latex glove. *Please refer to the Accident Theory (AT) domain with
regard to safety systems and Fault Tree analysis. The latex is the
culprit here as it readily breaks down in the presence of solvents
and was not the glove material of choice. D has no import, as the
age or condition of the latex would not have mattered in this case.
Source:
The Occupational Environment – Its Evaluation and Control,
Salvatore R. DiNardi, Editor, American Industrial Hygiene Association,
Dermal Exposure, p. 286
Case
Study 2: Correct answer: D
Justification:
The answer includes all aspects of the CRSP’s role, identifying
risk, recommending controls and presenting the findings to a supervisor
in charge of the workplace.
Source:
The Occupational Environment – Its Evaluation and Control,
Salvatore R. DiNardi, Editor, American Industrial Hygiene Association,
Dermal Exposure, p. 286
Case
Study 3: Correct answer: C
Justification:
A is correct but has no relationship to the question. B is also
correct but talks about a definition of a particular dose, not exposure.
D is incorrect by any standard.
Source:
The Occupational Environment – Its Evaluation and Control,
Salvatore R. DiNardi, Editor, American Industrial Hygiene Association,
Dermal Exposure, p. 286
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