ASP Fellowship I case studies
ASP Fellowship I · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The ASP Fellowship I is a multiple-choice examination intended for professionals who work within the safety, health, and environmental (SH&E) field and who wish to demonstrate a broad, integrated command of professional practice. The eight domains span professional ethics, regulations and standards, safety and environmental protection, fundamentals and applied science, systems and equipment technology, analysis and measurement with quality assurance, management and communication, and emerging issues. The ASP Fellowship I case studies are 5 cases and about 5,732 words.
1The Sentence That Changed Between Revisions
You are the corporate safety fellow at a 600-person metal fabricator. On 14 March a press operator lost two fingers when the light curtain on a 400-ton mechanical press was muted during a coil change.
1,127 words, about 6 min2Three Hundred Pounds Short of a Program
A coatings manufacturer blends solvent-based products in a single-story plant. The blending process consists of two 2,000-gallon reactors and a 3,000-gallon let-down tank, all connected by fixed piping.
1,147 words, about 6 min3Two Compliance Clocks on One Rinse Line
An electroplating shop runs a hexavalent chromium (chromic acid) plating line staffed by six operators on 8-hour shifts. Personal sampling on one operator over 400 minutes produced an 8-hour TWA of 6.9 micrograms per cubic meter of Cr(VI); a second operator's sample was voided because the cassette seal failed.
1,158 words, about 6 min4The Assessment That Ended the Respirator Program
A consultant's exposure assessment of a vapor degreasing and manual wipe-down area concludes 'all exposures well below OSHA limits; no further action.' The report rests on three pieces of evidence. First, one full-shift charcoal tube sample from one of four wipe-down operators, analyzed by gas chromatography for toluene only; the pump was calibrated at 200 mL/min before the shift and at 118 mL/min after, and the consultant calculated the sample volume from the post-shift flow.
1,127 words, about 6 min5The Jumper on Terminal 4
A beverage plant's case palletizer is guarded by a Type 4 light curtain at the pallet-loading station and an interlocked hinged gate used for clearing stretch-wrap jams. Operators clear 15-20 jams per shift, and a full lockout of the palletizer and conveyor for each clearance takes 6-9 minutes.
1,173 words, about 6 min