CSP Domain 2: Program Management
BCSP's CSP11 Examination Blueprint, V.2024.04.24 weights Program Management at 25% of the CSP, a 5.5-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.
- 2.1 Safety management systems
- 2.4 Incident investigation
- 2.5 Management of Change
- 2.7 Evaluate leading and lagging indicators
- 2.7 Lagging indicators
- 2.7 Leading and lagging indicators
- 2.9 Required components for plans, systems and policies
- 2.9 Required program components
- 2.10 Document retention (incident, exposure, privacy)
- 2.10 Records
- 2.10 Trade secrets
- 2.14 Analyze data
Topics
Regulations this domain's questions cite most
- 29 CFR 1910.1200: Hazard communication (12)
- 29 CFR 1910.1020: Access to employee exposure and medical records (11)
- 29 CFR 1910.119: Process safety management of highly hazardous chemicals (11)
- 29 CFR 1910.134: Respiratory protection (10)
- 29 CFR 1904.7: General recording criteria (8)
- 29 CFR 1910.38: Emergency action plans (2)
- 29 CFR 1904.39: Reporting fatalities, hospitalizations, amputations, and losses of an eye as a result of work-related incidents to OSHA (2)
- 29 CFR 1904.29: Forms (2)
- 29 CFR 1904.33: Retention and updating (1)
- 29 CFR 1910.39: Fire prevention plans (1)
Free Domain 2 practice questions
A manufacturing plant logged 23 OSHA-recordable injury and illness cases last year. Its 430 employees worked a total of 864,000 hours. What is the plant's total recordable incidence rate per 100 full-time workers?
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Answer: A. 5.32
Incidence rate = (N x 200,000) / hours worked = (23 x 200,000) / 864,000 = 5.32. 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.
“(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.)”
An employee's designated representative requests a company's statistical analysis of workplace exposure and medical data. The report lists each affected worker's payroll number, exact age, and job title alongside their audiometric results. Before giving the representative access, what must the employer do?
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Answer: D. Remove the personal identifiers, both direct and those that could indirectly identify specific employees, before providing access
The standard requires the employer to remove personal identifiers before access is provided, and it counts both direct identifiers (payroll number) and indirect ones (exact age, job title). Removing only names and payroll numbers is wrong because indirect identifiers are expressly covered.
“Whenever access is requested to an analysis which reports the contents of employee medical records by either direct identifier (name, address, social security number, payroll number, etc.) or by information which could reasonably be used under the circumstances indirectly to identify specific employees (exact age, height, weight, race, sex, date of initial employment, job title, etc.), the employer shall assure that personal identifiers are removed before access is provided.”
A machining shop with 8 employees is required by an OSHA standard to have an emergency action plan. The owner says she has always explained evacuation routes and reporting procedures verbally at the start of each employee's first shift and sees no reason to write anything down. What is the correct assessment?
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Answer: A. Compliant, because an employer with 10 or fewer employees may communicate the plan orally
The standard permits an employer with 10 or fewer employees to communicate the plan orally, so 8 employees qualifies. The written-plan requirement applies to larger employers, and the standard sets no 5-employee limit or sign-off log condition.
“However, an employer with 10 or fewer employees may communicate the plan orally to employees.”
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