10 free, exam-style Certified Safety Professional (CSP) practice questions with answers and explanations. No signup required. Work through them below, then take the full free CSP practice test to study every exam domain.
The CSP exam has 200 questions and runs 5 hours 30 minutes.
These 10 free CSP questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the Certified Safety Professional blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
A staffing firm places a temporary employee at a client's warehouse, where the client directs the worker's daily tasks and supervises the work. In a typical staffing arrangement, which party is responsible for withholding federal payroll taxes from the temporary employee's wages?
Correct answer: A - The staffing firm, as the W-2 employer of record
A staffing firm uses a pre-employment physical-strength test for all light-clerical placements. The test screens out a significantly higher proportion of female applicants, and the firm cannot show the test is job-related for clerical work. This practice is BEST described as:
Correct answer: D - Disparate impact from a facially neutral practice
A client asks a staffing firm to treat an assigned 'office manager' as exempt from overtime solely because of the job title and a fixed weekly salary. For the employee to be properly classified as exempt under the FLSA, the firm must ALSO confirm that:
Correct answer: C - The employee's primary duties satisfy an exemption test
A staffing firm orders a background report from a consumer reporting agency and learns of a conviction it believes disqualifies the applicant. Before formally rejecting the applicant on that basis, the Fair Credit Reporting Act FIRST requires the firm to:
Correct answer: B - Send the applicant a copy of the report and a summary of their rights
During Form I-9 verification, a recruiter tells a new hire, 'I'll need to see your Social Security card and your passport specifically.' The employee has other valid, acceptable documents available. The recruiter's demand most likely constitutes:
Correct answer: A - Document abuse prohibited by IRCA
A temporary employee has worked for a staffing firm for 14 months and recorded 1,150 hours over the past 12 months at a client site that employs 200 people. Based on these facts, is the employee eligible for FMLA leave?
Correct answer: D - No - they fall short of the 1,250-hour requirement
A temporary employee is injured operating equipment at a client's facility and receives workers' compensation benefits through the staffing firm's policy. The employee then tries to sue the client in tort for the same injury. Which principle generally bars this lawsuit against the client?
Correct answer: C - The exclusive-remedy rule under the special-employer doctrine
Under the Affordable Care Act's employer shared-responsibility rules, a staffing firm must treat an employee as 'full-time' - and therefore potentially eligible for an offer of coverage - if the employee averages at least:
Correct answer: B - 30 hours per week
Two temporary employees at a client site are disciplined by the staffing firm after they jointly complained to management about unsafe conditions and unpaid wages. Neither employee belongs to a union. Under the National Labor Relations Act, this group complaint is:
Correct answer: A - Protected concerted activity, even in a non-union workplace
An employee is terminated shortly after filing a workers' compensation claim for a workplace injury and sues, alleging wrongful discharge. This claim most directly relies on which exception to the employment-at-will doctrine?
Correct answer: D - The public-policy exception
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