CHST Domain 3: Safety Program Development, Implementation, and Sustainment
Domain 3 is 22.5% of the CHST, number 2 of 4 domains by weight. PassCited has 106 questions for it.
BCSP's CHST5 Examination Blueprint, V.2022.04.12 weights Safety Program Development, Implementation, and Sustainment at 22.5% of the CHST, a 4-hour exam. It is one of the two heaviest domains, so it deserves a large share of your study time.
Blueprint tasks we cover in this domain
Task numbers follow the BCSP blueprint. Tasks with no public-domain source (for example ISO standards or management theory) are thin or missing in our bank, and we say so rather than invent content.
- K3.1 Applicable standards
- K3.1 Applicable standards (definitions)
- K3.2 Safety program elements (workplace violence)
- K3.3 Worksite inspections
- K3.4 Impact of regulatory authority on roles and responsibilities
- K3.4 Regulatory authority
- K3.5 Proper equipment use
- K3.6 Program evaluation
- K3.7 Data gathering, documentation and recordkeeping
- K3.7 Recordkeeping
- manufacturers' manuals
- S3.2 Apply relevant standards to worksite conditions
- S3.3 Identify trends
- S3.3 Identify trends related to incidents
Topics
- General Safety and Health Provisions11 questions
- OSHA Recordkeeping16 questions
- OSHA Inspections and Citations12 questions
- Aerial Lifts and Manufacturer Requirements9 questions
- Steel Erection11 questions
- Competent, Qualified and Authorized Persons5 questions
- Incident Rate Calculations16 questions
- Leading Indicators and Program Evaluation16 questions
- Workplace Violence Prevention10 questions
Regulations this domain's questions cite most
- 29 CFR 1904.7: General recording criteria 12 questions
- 29 CFR 1926.20: General safety and health provisions 9 questions
- 29 CFR 1926.760: Fall protection 7 questions
- 29 CFR 1926.1404: Assembly/Disassembly—general requirements (applies to all assembly and disassembly operations) 6 questions
- 29 CFR 1926.32: Definitions 5 questions
- 29 CFR 1926.752: Site layout, site-specific erection plan and construction sequence 4 questions
- 29 CFR 1903.14: Citations; notices of de minimis violations; policy regarding employee rescue activities 4 questions
- 29 CFR 1903.7: Conduct of inspections 3 questions
- 29 CFR 1903.16: Posting of citations 3 questions
- 29 CFR 1904.29: Forms 3 questions
Free Domain 3 practice questions
Question 1Calculation
A manufacturing plant logged 24 OSHA-recordable injury and illness cases last year. Its 280 employees worked a total of 540,000 hours. What is the plant's total recordable incidence rate per 100 full-time workers?
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Answer: B. 8.89
Incidence rate = (N x 200,000) / hours worked = (24 x 200,000) / 540,000 = 8.89. The 200,000 base represents 100 employees working 40 hours a week for 50 weeks. Using 100,000 as the base would give half the correct value.
Answer B rests on
BLS, How To Compute Your Firm's Incidence Rate for Safety Management(opens ecfr.gov in a new tab)“(Number of injuries and illnesses X 200,000) / Employee hours worked = Incidence rate (The 200,000 hours in the formula represents the equivalent of 100 employees working 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, and provides the standard base for the incidence rates.)”
Question 2
During a routine walkthrough, a site safety technician finds a corded circular saw with a cracked blade guard that does not meet the applicable requirements of the construction standards. The crew needs the saw to finish framing the afternoon's work. What must be done with the saw?
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Answer: B. Identify it as unsafe by tagging or locking the controls so it cannot be operated, or physically remove it from its place of operation
The standard prohibits using any noncompliant tool and requires that it be tagged out, have its controls locked, or be physically removed. Operator experience or extra PPE does not make a noncompliant tool acceptable, and a verbal warning does not identify or disable it.
Answer B rests on
29 CFR 1926.20(b)(3)(opens ecfr.gov in a new tab)“Such machine, tool, material, or equipment shall either be identified as unsafe by tagging or locking the controls to render them inoperable or shall be physically removed from its place of operation.”
Question 3
A laborer strains his shoulder at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday. The site clinic's physician assistant restricts him from overhead work for the remainder of that day only. He returns Wednesday with no restrictions and performs all routine duties. Under the restricted work rules, how should the restriction be treated?
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Answer: B. It is not recorded as restricted work because the restriction applied only to the day the injury occurred
The standard says restricted work or job transfer need not be recorded when imposed only for the day the injury occurred. Counting it as a restricted day because a licensed professional imposed it is wrong, since the same-day exception applies whether the employer or the professional imposes the restriction.
Answer B rests on
29 CFR 1904.7(b)(4)(iii)(opens ecfr.gov in a new tab)“No, you do not have to record restricted work or job transfers if you, or the physician or other licensed health care professional, impose the restriction or transfer only for the day on which the injury occurred or the illness began.”
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