Explosive Safety

Your role is to ensure the safety and serviceability of the stockpile and monitor AE uploads, transportation, and storage activities. Who are you? correct answer: QASAS You have been appointed as your installation's safety chief. Who is responsible for developing, implementing, and managing the ESP as part of the overall safety and occupational health program for the installation? correct answer: installation commander If you are responsible for assisting commanders and staff with resol...

ESQD arc correct answer: PES > IMD > ILD > PTRD > IBD USATCES has submitted your ESSP for final approval. Who did they submit it to? correct answer: DDESB What is the minimum distance permitted between an ammunition or explosives location and the installation headquarters building? correct answer: IBD What is the minimum distance permitted between a PES and an interstate highway? correct answer: PTRD What is the minimum distance permitted between any two operating bui...

who ensures explosive safety site plans and submissions show all PES and ES? correct answer: QASAS if you have the primary responsibility of monitoring and evaluating the quality of ammo stockpile who are you? correct answer: QASAS which can generate an UXO? correct answer: combat, live fire ranges while inspecting a magazine on CONUS, ammo if found to old to use, where happens next? correct answer: sent to demilitarization commander asks you about the hierarchy of DoD publicatio...

Occupation safety, health and environmental requirements as they apply to explosives safety are mandatory as described in which of the following instructions? correct answer: OPNAVINST 5100.19 (series) Personnel carrying firearms for law enforcement, security duties, or personal protection shall be qualified and authorized as described in which of the following instructions? correct answer: OPNAVINST 3591.1 (series) All personnel must be physically and mentally qualified to be explosives...

Where are munitions safety requirements found? correct answer: AFMAN 91-201, Explosive Safety Standards TO 11a-1-33 Handling and Maintenance of Explosives Loaded Aircraft What is the cardinal rule for explosive safety? correct answer: Minimum number of people, minimum amount of explosives, minimum amount of time Personnel working with explosives must be trained in accordance with what? correct answer: AFI 91-202, Mishap Prevention What must supervisors do? correct answer: Knowled...

What type of detonation occurs when a storage facility with high explosives detonates and its shock wave hits a nearby facility causing another explosion? correct answer: Deflagrate detonation Which of the following chemicals will react violently when it comes in contact with water? correct answer: TH, HC, TPA Select the correct order of the levels of protection from least protection required to most protection required. correct answer: IMD, ILD, PTRD, IBD The ultimate purpose of qua...

Which two publications provide detailed information on lightning protection systems? correct answer: DA PAM 385-64 NFPA 780 Which statements about lightning protection are true?Select all that apply. correct answer: Lightning can detonate munitions and explosives. Lightning seeks the path of least resistance to ground. Lightning cannot be stopped or prevented. Which statement is true about a mast LPS? correct answer: Each mast must have two paths to ground. A 30-foot tall buil...

Personnel Limits correct answer: a minimum number of personnel will be exposed for a minimum time to the smallest quantity of explosives consistent with safety and efficiency Explosives Limits correct answer: limits for ammunition, explosives, and pyrotechnic materials shall be determined by a careful analysis of all facts, including operation timing, transportation, methods, size of the items, and the chemical and physical characteristics of the materiel Protection of Personnel correct ...

Which level of publication applies to the largest group of people? correct answer: Code of Federal Regulations Lower-level publications should never correct answer: contradict higher-level publication Your installation plans to construct 10 new earth-covered magazines. You need to find the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) requirements for this project. What level of publication would you check first? correct answer: DoD Issuances The primary purpose of a DoDD is ...

Cardinal Rule correct answer: Minimum people, minimum time, minimum explosives ESQD: Explosives Safety Quantity Distance correct answer: Provides different minimum safe distances for buildings, roadways, and magazines. PES correct answer: IMD correct answer: Intermagazine Distance: applies to ECMs, AGMs, open storage sites, classification yards, holding areas. ILD correct answer: Intraline Distance: provided for operating buildings Surveillance workshops, production buildings,...