Associate Safety Professionals (ASP) are safety practitioners who have shown an understanding of core safety, health, and environmental (SH & E) principles. Obtaining an ASP demonstrates to others that you are concerned about safety, validates your knowledge and abilities, and improves your career. The ASP qualifies for the Certified Safety Professional (CSP) certificate. ASP REQUIREMENTS1. Will have a minimum of a bachelors degree in any field or an associate’s in safety, health, or the environment* The associate degree must include at least four courses with at least 12 semester hours/18 quarter hours of study in the safety, health, or environmental domains covered in the ASP examination blueprint2. Will have one (1) year of safety experience where safety is at least 50%, preventative, professional level with breadth and depth of safety duties3. Must pass the ASP examination4. Maintenance of certificationAnnual renewal feeRecertification requirementsWHAT IS INCLUDED IN ASP EXAM?The ASP exam is a computer-based test that consists of 200 multiple-choice questions with four alternative responses and only one valid answer. The ASP test will take 5 hours to complete. Examinations are closed books, and access to external reference sources are not allowed during the examination. ASP COURSE SYLLABUS: The following is a summary of the test, including the key parts and their weight: Domain 1. Advanced Science and Math (11.55%)1. General chemistry concepts (e.g, nomenclature, balancing chemical equations, chemical reactions, ideal gas law, and pH) 2. Electrical principles (e.g, Ohms law, power, impedance, energy, resistance, and circuits) 3. Principles of radioactivity (e.g, radioactive decay, half-life, source strength, concentration, and inverse square law) 4. Storage capacity calculations 5. Rigging and load calculations6. Ventilation and system design 7. Noise hazards 8. Climate and environmental conditions (e.g, Wet-bulb Globe Temperature [WBGT], wind chill, and heat stress) 9. Fall protection calculations10. General physics concepts (e.g, force, acceleration, velocity, momentum, and friction) 11. Financial principles (e.g, cost-benefit analysis, cost of risk, life cycle cost, return on investment, and effects of losses) 12. Descriptive statistics (e.g, central tendency, variability, and probability) 13. Lagging indicators (e.g, incidence rates, lost time, and direct costs of incidents)14. Leading indicators (e.g, inspection frequency, safety interventions, employee performance evaluations, training frequency, near miss, near hit, and close-call reporting)Domain 2. Safety Management Systems (17.22%)1. Hierarchy of hazard controls 2. Risk transfer (e.g, insurance and outsourcing such as incident management or subcontracting) 3. Management of change 4. Hazard and risk analysis methods (e.g, preliminary hazard analysis, subsystem hazard analysis, hazard and operability analysis, failure mode and effects analysis, fault tree analysis, fishbone, what-if, and checklist analysis, change analysis, energy trace and barrier [ETBS] analysis, and systematic cause analysis technique [SCAT]) 5. Process safety management6. Fleet safety principles (e.g, driver behavior, defensive driving, distracted driving, fatigue, and vehicle safety features) 7. Hazard Communication and Globally Harmonized System8. Control of hazardous energy (e.g, lockout/Tagout)9. Excavation, trenching and shoring 10. Confined space 11. Physical security 12. Fall protection 13. Machine Guarding 14. Powered industrial vehicles (e.g, trucks, forklifts, and cranes) 15. ScaffoldingDomain 3. Ergonomics (9%) 1. Fitness for duty (e.g, fatigue and mental health) 2. Stressors (e.g, environmental, lights, noise, and other conditions) 3. Risk factors (e.g, repetition, force, posture, and vibration) 4. Work design 5. Material handling (e.g, manual, powered equipment, and lifting devices) 6. Work practice controls (e.g, job rotation, work hardening, and early symptom intervention)Domain 4. Fire Prevention and Protection (10.66%)1. Chemical (e.g, flash point and auto ignition) 2. Electrical (e.g, static electricity, surge, arc flash, ground fault circuit interrupter, and grounding and bonding) 3. Hot work (e.g, welding, cutting, and brazing) 4. Combustible dust 5. Fire science (e.g, fire pentagon, fire tetrahedron, upper and lower explosive limits) 6. Detection systems 7. Suppression systems, fire extinguishers, sprinkler types 8. Segregation and separation (e.g, flammable materials storage and ventilation) 9. HousekeepingDomain 5. Emergency Response Management (9.57%)1. Emergency, crisis, disaster response planning (e.g, drills) 2. Workplace violence (e.g, shooting, bomb threat, vandalism, and verbal threats)Domain 6. Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health (12.59%)1. Sources of biological hazards (e.g, viral, bacterial, parasitic, fungus, and mold) 2. Protocol for bloodborne pathogen control 3. Mutagens, teratogens, and carcinogens 4. Chemical hazards (e.g, sources, assessment, control strategies, symptoms, and target organs) 5. Expos
