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Certified Safety Professional (CSP) cheat sheet

A one-page summary of key CSP blueprint topics.

Safety principles

  • Prevention through Design removes hazards at the design stage
  • Relief valves and MOC are core process safety controls
  • Occupant load drives egress capacity

Program management

  • FTA is top-down; FMEA is bottom-up
  • ISO 19011 guides management system audits
  • Pareto analysis focuses effort on the vital few causes

Risk management

  • Strategies: avoid, reduce, retain, transfer, share
  • Insurance transfers financial risk; deductibles retain part of it
  • ISO 31000 is the risk management guideline

Health, emergency and training

  • LD50 is the dose lethal to half of test animals
  • ICS gives a scalable incident command structure
  • ADDIE: analyze, design, develop, implement, evaluate

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