Safety

Question 1

What is required to be ARSO?

Answer 1

Officer DP1.1 Qual
Completed Artillery safety crse within the past 12 months
Published within unit RO by the CO as a qualified ARSO on the ranges and equipment used during practice

Question 2

What does the safety officer need to check before firing?

Answer 2

The orientation of the guns with his compass

Question 3

What must everyone get before getting on the range?

Answer 3

The safety brief

Question 4

What is included in the safety brief

Answer 4

Introduction of ARSOs
Procedure for checking guns
Procedure for clearing a gun safe
Reiterate the meaning of CHECK FIRING, STAND FAST and whistle blow
Reiterate no smoking within 50m of ammunition
Reiterate ear pro is required ___m within the gun platforms
Location of medics, ambulance or first aid vehicle

Question 5

What 4 things must be on the trace?

Answer 5

Range restrictions (Impact and richochet areas)
Gips
Gun position
OP’s

Question 6

When do we use Positive safety?

Answer 6

• When civilians are around the guns
• When a large group of people are concentrated in that location

Question 7

When do we use Normal safety

Answer 7

Level of safety used for exercises involving service personnel or DND employees and contractors in direct support of the activity, who are tactically dispersed and wearing PPE.

Question 8

What do you say if the data is safe?

Answer 8

From safety, Data safe

Question 9

What do you say if the data is unsafe?

Answer 9

Stop by safety
Reason of unsafe data
Type of correction
Orientation technique
Correction

Question 10

When can you achieve overflight?

Answer 10

All except HE Time and HE Proximity

Question 11

What’s the definition of the Fixed Safety Distance?

Answer 11

Distances which not only account for the NBSD but also for the worst case dispersion (8 Probable Error) of a specific weapon system

Question 12

What is the safety distance for the C3

Answer 12

800 m

Question 13

What is the safety distance for LG1

Answer 13

870 m

Question 14

What is the safety distance for the M777

Answer 14

1240 m

Question 15

What is the safety distance for the M777 w/ RAP

Answer 15

1500 m

Question 16

What does the Safety officer must do with the gun data ?

Answer 16

Transform it into map data with the Correction of the Moment (C/M)

Question 17

What part of gun data determines the RTB/RTI?

Answer 17

The Fuze setting

Question 18

What do the DRSO’s contain?

Answer 18

Authorized Areas
Deployment Areas
Impact Areas
Ricochet Areas
Wpns / Ammo
OP Loc and Areas
Firing Unit and Call Signs
Max Trajectory Altitude

Question 19

What equipment must the ARSO must have?

Answer 19

Publications
-Training Safety
-Range Standing Orders
-Daily Range Standing Orders
-TFTs
-Destruction of Dud and Misfired Ammunition
-Ammunition Restrictions
DND Ammunition Accident/Incident/Defect/Malfunction Reports and -Disposal Requests
Restricted Impact Area Overlay
Calibrated Prismatic Compass
Range Map
Plotting Board
Whistle and Lanyard
Coloured arm bands
Vehicle and proper comms if applicable.

Question 20

How do you correct a Ricochet problem?

Answer 20

Reduce to lower charge

Question 21

What is on a safety trace?

Answer 21

Min 3 GIPs
Title with date
Type of safety
Legend
Type of weapon
Nature of ammunition including fuzes
Signature lines
Person produced the overly
Person authorized the overly
The person approved the set up of the map board

Question 22

What can’t ILLUM do?

Answer 22

Burst over a Ricochet area