Introduction to Explosives Safety for Safety Professionals
1. Your role is to ensure the safety and serviceability of the stockpile and monitor A&E
uploads, transportation, and storage activities. Who are you?-
: QASAS
2. You have been appointed as your installation's Occupational Health and Safety Manager.
Who is responsible for developing, implementing, and man- aging the ESP as part of the
overall safety and occupational health program for the installation?: Installation Commander
3. If you are responsible for assisting commanders and staff with resolving explosives safety
concerns, which role do you have?: Safety Specialist
4. If you are assigned to support tactical units regarding execution of ESMP. Who are you?:
Ammunition Warrant Officer
5. The Installation Commander assigns one person as the POC for all ESMP activities.
Which role does that person fill?: Occupational Health and Safety Manager
6. Which three of these statements are part of the DDESB's mission? Select all that apply.:
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.
7. The Cardinal Rule exposes the minimum number of people to the: minimum amount of
explosives for the minimum about of time
8. Ammunition is distributed to units from: the ASP
9. Ammunition that is old, doesn't work, or is otherwise unusable belongs in which life cycle
stage?: Demilitarization
, 10. Which two of these could have generated the UXO? Select all that apply.-
: Combat
Live fire ranges
11. 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.: Contact the proper
authorities
Don't touch the item
Keep others away
12. 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?: Service standards can be more restrictive, but never less restrictive than the
DoD standard.
13. 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?: DESR
6055.09
14. What is the primary hazard for HC 1.1?: Mass detonation
15. Which placard must be attached to a load with a primary hazard of mass fire?:
Explosives 1.3 1
16. Which placard indicates fragmentation as the primary hazard?: Explo- sives 1.2 1
17. Which placard must be displayed on a vehicle transporting a load of ammunition with a
moderate risk of fire?: 1.4 Explosives 1
18. What are four uses for DU: Aircraft counterweight
1. Your role is to ensure the safety and serviceability of the stockpile and monitor A&E
uploads, transportation, and storage activities. Who are you?-
: QASAS
2. You have been appointed as your installation's Occupational Health and Safety Manager.
Who is responsible for developing, implementing, and man- aging the ESP as part of the
overall safety and occupational health program for the installation?: Installation Commander
3. If you are responsible for assisting commanders and staff with resolving explosives safety
concerns, which role do you have?: Safety Specialist
4. If you are assigned to support tactical units regarding execution of ESMP. Who are you?:
Ammunition Warrant Officer
5. The Installation Commander assigns one person as the POC for all ESMP activities.
Which role does that person fill?: Occupational Health and Safety Manager
6. Which three of these statements are part of the DDESB's mission? Select all that apply.:
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.
7. The Cardinal Rule exposes the minimum number of people to the: minimum amount of
explosives for the minimum about of time
8. Ammunition is distributed to units from: the ASP
9. Ammunition that is old, doesn't work, or is otherwise unusable belongs in which life cycle
stage?: Demilitarization
, 10. Which two of these could have generated the UXO? Select all that apply.-
: Combat
Live fire ranges
11. 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.: Contact the proper
authorities
Don't touch the item
Keep others away
12. 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?: Service standards can be more restrictive, but never less restrictive than the
DoD standard.
13. 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?: DESR
6055.09
14. What is the primary hazard for HC 1.1?: Mass detonation
15. Which placard must be attached to a load with a primary hazard of mass fire?:
Explosives 1.3 1
16. Which placard indicates fragmentation as the primary hazard?: Explo- sives 1.2 1
17. Which placard must be displayed on a vehicle transporting a load of ammunition with a
moderate risk of fire?: 1.4 Explosives 1
18. What are four uses for DU: Aircraft counterweight
