CANS CERTIFIED ADDICTION NURSING
SPECIALIST EXAM SCRIPT 2026 UPDATED
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS
GRADED A+
⩥ OSHA. Answer: Occupational Safety and Health Administration was
created as part of the U.S department of labour to regulate and enforce
safety and health standards to protect employees in the workplace
⩥ Why is OSHA important?. Answer: Products used daily. Addresses
issues relating to the handling, mixing, storing, and disposing of
products; general safety in the workplace; and your right to know about
any hazardous ingredients contained in the products and how to avoid
these hazards.
⩥ SDS. Answer: How OSHA communicates the potential hazards. 16-
category, standard-format document that replaces the previously
mandated MSDS or PSDS.
⩥ Who registers all types of disinfectants sold and used in the US?.
Answer: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
⩥ Disinfectants. Answer: are chemical products that destroy most
bacteria (excluding spores), fungi, and viruses on surfaces.
,⩥ What are federal agencies guidelines?. Answer: Set guidelines for
manufactures, sale, and use of equipment and chemical ingredients.
Monitor safety in the workplace and places limits on the types of
services you can perform.
⩥ State Regulatory Agencies?. Answer: Includes licensing agencies,
state boards, commissions, and health departments.
⩥ What does regulatory agencies require?. Answer: That everyone
working with clients follow specific procedures. Enforcement of the
rules through inspections and investigations of consumer complaints is
also part of the agency's responsibility.
⩥ Laws?. Answer: Laws or statutes are written by both federal and state
legislatures to determine the scope of practice and establish guidelines
for regulatory agencies to make rules.
⩥ What is more specific than laws?. Answer: rules, regulations
⩥ Who writes the rules and determines how the law must be applied?.
Answer: Regulatory agency or state board
⩥ Rules establishes what?. Answer: Specific standards of conduct and
can be changed or updated frequently.
, ⩥ Disease?. Answer: Any abnormal condition of all or part of the body,
its systems, or its organs that make the body incapable of carrying on
normal functions
⩥ Infection?. Answer: The invasion of body tissue by disease-causing
pathogens.
⩥ Transmission?. Answer: Is the process by which pathogens move
between individuals and objects
⩥ What is the most common types of transmission in the salon, spa, or
barbershop environment?. Answer: Direct, indirect (surface), airborne,
and respiratory droplet.
⩥ Direct transmission?. Answer: Involves the transmission of pathogens
through touching, kissing, coughing, sneezing, and talking.
⩥ Indirect transmission?. Answer: occurs through contact with an
intermediate contaminated object, such as a razor, extractor, nipper, or
an environmental surface upon which the pathogen resides. Doorknobs,
phones, food-preparation surfaces or implements.
⩥ How are respiratory droplets and airborne transmission similar?.
Answer: similar in that transmission occurs when a pathogen living in
SPECIALIST EXAM SCRIPT 2026 UPDATED
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS
GRADED A+
⩥ OSHA. Answer: Occupational Safety and Health Administration was
created as part of the U.S department of labour to regulate and enforce
safety and health standards to protect employees in the workplace
⩥ Why is OSHA important?. Answer: Products used daily. Addresses
issues relating to the handling, mixing, storing, and disposing of
products; general safety in the workplace; and your right to know about
any hazardous ingredients contained in the products and how to avoid
these hazards.
⩥ SDS. Answer: How OSHA communicates the potential hazards. 16-
category, standard-format document that replaces the previously
mandated MSDS or PSDS.
⩥ Who registers all types of disinfectants sold and used in the US?.
Answer: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
⩥ Disinfectants. Answer: are chemical products that destroy most
bacteria (excluding spores), fungi, and viruses on surfaces.
,⩥ What are federal agencies guidelines?. Answer: Set guidelines for
manufactures, sale, and use of equipment and chemical ingredients.
Monitor safety in the workplace and places limits on the types of
services you can perform.
⩥ State Regulatory Agencies?. Answer: Includes licensing agencies,
state boards, commissions, and health departments.
⩥ What does regulatory agencies require?. Answer: That everyone
working with clients follow specific procedures. Enforcement of the
rules through inspections and investigations of consumer complaints is
also part of the agency's responsibility.
⩥ Laws?. Answer: Laws or statutes are written by both federal and state
legislatures to determine the scope of practice and establish guidelines
for regulatory agencies to make rules.
⩥ What is more specific than laws?. Answer: rules, regulations
⩥ Who writes the rules and determines how the law must be applied?.
Answer: Regulatory agency or state board
⩥ Rules establishes what?. Answer: Specific standards of conduct and
can be changed or updated frequently.
, ⩥ Disease?. Answer: Any abnormal condition of all or part of the body,
its systems, or its organs that make the body incapable of carrying on
normal functions
⩥ Infection?. Answer: The invasion of body tissue by disease-causing
pathogens.
⩥ Transmission?. Answer: Is the process by which pathogens move
between individuals and objects
⩥ What is the most common types of transmission in the salon, spa, or
barbershop environment?. Answer: Direct, indirect (surface), airborne,
and respiratory droplet.
⩥ Direct transmission?. Answer: Involves the transmission of pathogens
through touching, kissing, coughing, sneezing, and talking.
⩥ Indirect transmission?. Answer: occurs through contact with an
intermediate contaminated object, such as a razor, extractor, nipper, or
an environmental surface upon which the pathogen resides. Doorknobs,
phones, food-preparation surfaces or implements.
⩥ How are respiratory droplets and airborne transmission similar?.
Answer: similar in that transmission occurs when a pathogen living in
