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Category: Certifications and standards

Daily Quiz (467)

The U.S. Green Building Council announced how many new cities would participate in its 2023 LEED for Cities Local Government Leadership Program?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it was finalizing updates to its __ standards for Composite Wood Products under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

ASTM International announced that it is developing a proposed standard that will be used to help measure the tensile strength of what?

The Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance recently released an updated __ standard, which establishes minimum performance requirements.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission recently awarded a $125,000 grant for the development of a standardized method to characterize the release of ___-based coatings.

A team of scientists from the United Nations have recently carried out the first standardized global review of potential risks and benefits from what types of projections?

The Biden-Harris Administration announced the first-ever performance standard, which will affect 30% of these government-owned spaces, for what?

The U.S. Green Building Council announced plans to update the primary version of the LEED green building certification program to more directly address what?

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced that it was providing training scholarships to increase the number of certified individuals to remove what?

In March, the U.S. Department of Labor proposed a rulemaking to the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts for the first time in __ years.

True or False: Recent medical studies on workplace lead exposure show that adverse health effects could occur in adults at higher blood lead levels than what was previously recognized.

How many standards and guidance manuals are under the umbrella of the AWWA SCTC?

When is NSF 600, a new health requirement requiring all coatings in contact with potable water to meet new, lower extraction levels, slated to go into effect?

With an expected increase in demand for ships to transport and store gas globally, Nippon Paints Marine is advising shipowners and shipyards to ensure that their fuel, water and cargo tanks are protected from __________.

The newly launched National Emphasis Program requires OSHA inspectors and compliance assistance specialists are to engage in proactive outreach and technical assistance on days when the heat index is above what temperature?

True or False: The new SSPC Paint 47 Standard was developed to raise the bar for color retention in projects.

True or False: The SSPC-SP 3, Power Tool Cleaning, standard requires removal of all tightly adhering rust, mill scale and paint.

In 2019, Cleveland City Council passed a law mandating the obtainment of _____-safe certificates fore rental properties, landlords and property owners by March 1, 2023.

True or false: The ISO 16961:2015 standard covers both new construction and maintenance works of tank internal coating and lining as well as the repair of defective and deteriorated systems.

SSPC-SP 13/NACE No. 6, “Surface Preparation of ________,” has led to a debate in the industry as to whether the document should be considered more of a guide than a standard.

What year did WJTA’s hydroblaster training and certification program launch?

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration published an emergency temporary standard requiring employers with 100 or more employees implement a COVID-19 vaccination by which 2022 date?

The International Organization for Standardization recently announced a new series of ISO standards, which will focus on what?

When is the NSF/ANSI/CAN 600: “Health Effects Evaluation and Criteria in Drinking Water” standard scheduled to take effect?

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently announced plans to better combat ___ exposure, both indoors and outdoors.

The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) breaks down inspection assessments into all except which of the following:

As reported in a JPCL article, when being rehabilitated, the interior of the Sterling Ave. water tower in Maplewood, Minnesota was prepared to what standard?

Through Clemson University, contractors are now able to enroll in a five-module course for certifications in what type of technology?

How often are bridges typically inspected under the National Bridge Inspection Standards (NBIS) in the USA?

What is the ASTM standard for mechanical testing?

NEPCOAT certification follows the recommendations of what for required testing of a coating system?

In March, Nashville councilmembers introduced a bill that aims to raise the standards and oversight for what types of construction projects?

What is the OSHA standard dictating requirements for respiratory protection, including guidelines for respirator selection, fit, testing, maintenance, care and more?

Which association issues standards of performance for coatings applied over aluminum panels and extrusions for commercial buildings?

SSPC’s Level 1 Concrete Coating Application Specialist course requires what percentage to pass?

True or false: The Construction Specifications Institute, Inc. and ASTM International have finalized an agreement to link CSI’s Uniformat standards and ASTM’s E1557 standards within Crosswalk, a web service of the CSI-owned Construction Information Network, LLC, and a platform that integrates CSI classifications into construction technology.

What standard covers the determination of the pull-off strength of a coating or coating system, by determining the greatest perpendicular force (in tension) that a surface area can bear before a plug of material is detached?

One of the requirements for prequalification of zinc primers according to ISO 20340 is rust creep below:

According to SSPC, the following standards were revised in December 2019, except:

The Painting Contractors Association has been developing Industry Standards since:

True or false: PCA’s Industry Standard 19 covers the definition and application of decorative finishes.

When is NSF 600, a new health requirement requiring all coatings in contact with potable water to meet new, lower extraction levels, slated to go into effect?

This SSPC Standard was recently revised in September 2019

What Painting Contractors Association industry standard is responsible for the levels of surface preparation for repainting and maintenance projects receiving architectural coatings?

ASTM says that this standard is responsible for conducting exterior exposure tests of paints on wood:

What ISO standard is typically used when deciding on a protective coating for steel wind towers?

True or false: SSPC Guide 15 references “Soluble Salt Testing Frequency and Locations on New Steel Surfaces.”

True or false: SSPC-SP 5 (NACE No. 1) is used for Commercial Blast Cleaning.

True or false: The four SSPC/NACE joint waterjetting standards range from SSPC-SP WJ-1/NACE WJ-1 to SSPC-SP WJ-4/NACE WJ-4, with WJ-1 representing the lowest level of waterjetting and WJ-4 representing the most thorough level of waterjetting.

True or false: SSPC: The Society for Protective Coatings offers a jointly issued standard on thermal spraying with the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials and the National Steel Bridge Alliance.

How many SSPC-NACE joint surface preparation standards are there for waterjetting?

Which ISO standard, introduced in December 2018, mandates a series of tests in an attempt to capture the exposure cycle a typical CUI coating might encounter during the construction, transport and operational phases?

True or false: The American institute of Architects recently updated its B109-2020, Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner and Architect for a Multi-Family Residential or Mixed-Use Residential Project.

What organization has pictorial standards and other means of evaluating the degree of coating defects, such as blistering, rusting, cracking, flaking and chalking?

True or false: SSPC-AB 3 is meant to be used as a standard for both newly manufactured abrasive media and recycled media.

True or false: Commercial Grade Power Tool Cleaning allows some staining on the surface; Power Tool Cleaning to Bare Metal does not allow stains.

True or false: SSPC certifies only industrial and commercial painting contractors and shops.

True or false: Fluoropolymer coatings on aluminum extrusions, meeting the most rigorous AAMA performance standard (AAMA 2605), are typically applied at less than 2 mils.

What organization used a contact stylus profilometer to create a standard?

True or false: The American Concrete Institute offers certifications in what area?

True or false: SSPC published a surface preparation standard, now discontinued, describing laser cleaning of steel.

True or false: The American Concrete Institute provides education and certification for concrete slab moisture testing technicians.

True or False: Testing standards for measuring dry film thickness of coatings (SSPC, IMO, ISO, and AS) are remarkably similar in their requirements for sampling and the number of measurements that have to be taken.

What organization publishes the “Standard for Shop Application of Complex Protective Coating Systems”?

What organization published a new standard in 2019 that aims to improve the reliability and sustainability of iron water pipes that provide clean drinking water?

True or false: In North America, SSPC is not the sole publisher of hand- and power-tool cleaning standards.

True or false: ASHRAE developed a standard practice for building enclosure commissioning.

What organization offers the credential, Certified Building Enclosure Commissioning Provider?

True or false: SSPC-SP 5, "White Metal Blast Cleaning," allows 5% of the blast-cleaned surface to have stains of old paint, rust or mill scale.

What organization publishes the technical manual Standard Practice for the Testing and Inspection of Intumescent Fire-Resistive Materials?

What is the correct order of SSPC’s power tool cleaning standards in terms of rigor, going from least to most rigorous?

What organization has a standard for the evaluation of degradation of coatings, including designation of quantity and size of defects and of intensity of uniform changes in appearance?

True or false: SSPC has a performance standard for elastomeric coatings on masonry and concrete.

What organization offers an certification program for aerospace coating applicators?

What organization created a standard for measuring concrete surface profile with replica putty?

True or false: The Construction Specifications Institute offers a standard that gives durability grades of low, medium and high for paint systems in various environments and levels of surface preparation.

Which of the following is not cited in an ASTM standard as a cause of change in the solar reflectance of a new building envelope surface?

True or false: SSPC’s wet abrasive blast cleaning standards describe three levels of flash rust following wet blast cleaning.

True or false: The US Green Building Council partners with AIA and CSI to develop and publish the consensus-based United States National CAD Standard.

What organization certifies long-term guarantees on tank linings and other protective coating work?

Which of the following organizations has standards for selecting and using concrete repair materials?

True or false: OSHA has stated that where the definition of a Construction Industry versus a General Industry confined space is unclear, compliance with the Construction Industry confined space standard will also be considered to be compliance with the General Industry confined space standard.

True or false: A special visual standard and guide has been developed to support SSPC-SP 17, Thorough Abrasive Blast Cleaning of Non-Ferrous Metals.

True or false: SSPC has one PCCP/QP standard that is jointly issued with NACE.

In its degree of cleaning, SSPC-SP 14 sits between what other two SSPC blast cleaning standards?

True or false: SSPC-SP 11, which requires a one-mil profile, is titled “Commercial Grade Power Tool Cleaning.”

What coating specialist wrote a critique on PaintSquare of the ISO standard for assessing acceptable levels of dust on surfaces prepared for painting?

Who was chairman of the task group that created the Painting Contractor Certification Program?

True or false: The NFPA has a standard measuring the functional durability of spray-applied, fire-resistive coatings.

True or false: The joint SSPC/NACE concrete surface preparation standard has not been revised since its issuance in 2003.

SSPC and AISC jointly publish a standard on what subject?

True or false: AAMA has a specification for polymeric materials used to provide a rainscreen function.

True or false: The ISO surface preparation standard Sa 3 resembles SSPC-SP 5/NACE No. 1.

True or false: The SSPC/NACE joint standard on surface preparation of concrete does not apply to masonry walls.

True or false: Of the four primary standards for measuring surface profile on blast-cleaned steel, two of them also address profile generated by power tools.

True or false: Not all the SSPC surface preparation standards are issued jointly with NACE.

True or false: The Aluminum Association publishes a specification for anodized architectural aluminum.

True or false: SSPC has a performance standard for coating systems used on offshore structures.

True or false: SSPC’s CCI certification of concrete coating inspectors applies to protective but not architectural coatings.

What organization has a performance standard for liquid-applied flashing used around exterior wall openings?

True or false: In ASTM’s standard definition of protective coating work, inspection is included as one of the operations required to accomplish a complete coating job.

What organization is forming a committee to create a performance-based standard for fluoropolymer coatings?

True or false: The Norsok M 501 standard on protective coatings was created by the Norwegian shipping industry.

True or false: NACE and SSPC publish a joint standard on qualifying and certifying architectural coating applicators.

True or False: AAMA Subcommittee D01.42 deals with standards for architectural coatings.

What organization publishes the document, “Standard Terminology for Paint, Related Coatings, Materials and Applications"?

True or false: The qualifications of commercial painting contractors can be certified by SSPC.

SSPC’s Contractor Certification program was modeled in part on the certification program of what other organization?

True or false: The joint SSPC/NACE standard on surface preparation of concrete lists numerous surface preparation methods together with the surface profile range achievable with each method.

True or false: SSPC and NACE issue joint standards on abrasive blast cleaning, water and wet blast cleaning, cleaning of concrete and power tool cleaning.

What organization asserts that it is “dedicated to the establishment of quality, performance and sustainable coatings standards"?

What organization publishes the guidance document, "Soluble Salt Testing Frequency and Locations on New Steel Surfaces"?

True or false: A White Metal Blast (SSPC-SP 5) allows no rust, no mill scale, no old paint and 5 percent stains to remain on a steel surface after cleaning.

True or false: ACI has a specification for pigments used to create integrally colored concrete.

MPI 500 Series standards are designed especially to serve what organization?

True or false: SSPC has a procedure to test the performance of immersion linings.

True or false: SSPC’s Coating Application Specialist Standard is issued jointly with the American Coatings Association.

True or false: One of SSPC’s standards for hand-tool cleaning of steel before painting requires a surface profile.

True or false: ICRI has recently published a Concrete Coating Texture Standard.

Tuesday: True or false: SSPC-SP 18 is often specified for the surface preparation of newly galvanized steel.

True or false: The US Green Building Council awards a certification for conforming with the requirements in the Green Guide for Health Care.

True or false: One paint consultant advocates for the use of a hammer to check for compliance with SSPC-SP 6 after the paint has been applied.

SSPC has a procedure to certify that contractors can successfully install floor coatings on what type of substrate?

What organization recently published a standard on the texture of coatings applied to concrete substrates?

What is the basis for the U.S. Green Building Council’s planned new building certification, LEED Positive?

True or false: PDCA created a standard definition of “coating work.”

True or false: SSPC has a holiday detection standard.

True or false: Dry film thickness measurement standards used around the world are quite similar to one another.

True or false: The SSPC standard for hand-tool cleaning of steel before painting does not requires a surface profile.

SSPC-SP 10, Near White Metal Blast Cleaning, allows stains of rust, stains of mill scale, or stains from previous coatings to remain on what percent of a blast-cleaned surface?

True or false: In North America, there are three hand- and power-tool cleaning standards.

True or false: SSPC publishes a standard procedure for describing the size and density of the blisters so that comparisons of severity can be made.

In addition to having a standard on determining the degree of rusting, ASTM also has what other standard for conducting condition surveys?

True or false: The ISO blast cleaning standard Sa3, Blast Cleaning to Visually Clean Steel, is equivalent to SSPC-SP 6, Commercial Blast.

What organization has two standards for measuring surface profile?

True or false: ANSI/NSF 61 addresses the health effects of coatings for potable water tanks but not coatings performance issues.

True or false: The SSPC Visual Standard photos in SSPC-VIS 6 show steel cleaned by UHP water jetting.

True or false: NACE publishes a standard that gives durability grades of low, medium and high for paint systems in various environments and levels of surface preparation.

How many power tool cleaning standards do SPPC and NACE publish jointly?

True or false: SSPC publishes a standard procedure for describing the size and density of the blisters so that comparisons of severity can be made.

True or false: The surface preparation standards for the most thorough level of blast cleaning are SSPC-SP 5, NACE No. 3 and ISO Sa 1.

True or false: OSHA’s Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard, adopted in 2016, reduces the permissible exposure limit for respirable crystalline silica to 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air as an eight-hour time-weighted average.

True or false: The EPA recently refused to follow a court order to revise its dust-lead standards.

What organization in the list shown offers a certification for shop painting of bridge and highway steel?

True or false: SSPC’s written surface preparation standards describing degrees of cleaning of steel take precedence over the photographs of cleaned steel shown in SSPC-VIS 1.

True or false: ASTM has a standard for polysiloxane topcoats for use over spray polyurethane foam roofing.

What organization provides visual profile standards for concrete?

True or false: If a school system wanted to require an SSPC-certified contractor for a maintenance painting job, it would specify certification according to SSPC-QP 1.

True or false: The AIA maintains coating standards for architectural aluminum extrusions and panels.

True or false: NIOSH created the PM10 standard.

True or false: Only abrasive blast-cleaning standards from SSPC require a surface profile on steel.

True or false: SSPC-VIS 1, Guide and Reference Photographs for Steel Surfaces Prepared by Dry Abrasive Blast Cleaning, was derived from the visual standards of the Institute of Corrosion in the UK.

True or false: In its recently revised SSPC-PA 7, Applying Thin Film Coatings to Concrete, “thin film” is defined as being 10 mils thick or less.

True or false: SSPC power tool cleaning standards are issued jointly with NACE International.

What is the subject of an SSPC/NACE standard that describes a “body of knowledge?”

True or false: SSPC-SP 10 is the abrasive blast cleaning standard requiring the most rigorous degree of cleaning of steel.

True or false: ASTM publishes performance standards for coatings over aluminum extrusions and panels.

What organization is developing a pinhole standard for concrete and masonry coatings?

True or false: There are significant differences between the AISC and SSPC certification standards for shop application of protective systems.

True or false: Standards for surface preparation of steel require solvent cleaning only after abrasive blasting.

True or false: A large school system that wanted to utilize certified painting contractors would invoke SSPC-QP 1 in its specifications.

True or false: The SSPC standard for ferrous metal abrasive is intended to be used for both new and recycled abrasive.

True or false: The various cure mechanisms described in the ASTM classification of urethane coatings include moisture cure, heat cure, chemical cure, solvent evaporation and oxidative cure.

True or false: SSPC has a Qualification Procedure on installation of tank linings in the field.

What organization does not produce standards for the surface preparation of concrete?

True or false: Modified salt spray testing is described in an ASTM standard.

The ASTM standard for moisture mitigation systems on concrete slabs for use under resilient flooring requires what level of permeance?

True or false: According to a D+D article, a green coating specification should include a requirement for durability.

True or false: ISO offers a standard that gives durability grades of low, medium and high for paint systems in various environments and levels of surface preparation.

What British organization recently launched a green building assessment system in the US?

True or false: A pencil hardness test is sometimes recommended to evaluate the cure of a coating.

True or false: ASTM D3359, “Standard Test Method for Measuring Adhesion by Tape Test,” measures the shear adhesion of a coating.

True or false: In judging the conformance of abrasive blast cleaning of steel with SSPC standards, such as SSPC-SP 10, the photos in SSPC-VIS 1 depicting levels of cleanliness take precedence over the written descriptions of required levels of cleanliness.

What organization offers training and certification as a thermal spray coatings inspector?

What organization offers the credential of Registered Building Envelope Consultant?

True or false: OSHA’s Construction Industry Fall Protection Standard is invoked when a worker operates at a height of 10 feet or greater.

True or false: Efflorescence at the surface of masonry wall is not readily removable with water.

According to ASTM, what is the function of a fire-retardant coating?

In the revised SSPC standard on applying thin film coatings to concrete, how are thin films defined?

How do you list these SSPC blast cleaning standards in order of the degree of rigor, from most to least rigorous?

ICRI and what other organization certify moisture-testing inspectors?

True or false: The minimum surface profile required to meet SSPC’s specification, "Power Tool Cleaning to Bare Metal," is 1.5 mils.

True or false: Level 6 gypsum board finish requires a thin skim coat of joint compound (or a material manufactured especially for this purpose) over the entire surface of the board.

SSPC recently created a specification for application of thermal spray coatings together with AASHTO and what other organization?

True or false: NACE International has a performance standard for coatings on concrete in waste treatment facilities.

True or false: SSPC-AB 3 is meant to be used as a standard for both newly manufactured abrasive media and recycled media.

True or false: SSPC has a procedure to certify that contractors can successfully install floor coatings.

True or false: NFPA 33, the Standard for Spray Application Using Flammable or Combustible Materials, does not provide ventilation guidelines for containment structures used on bridges during painting operations.

What organization offers a standard that gives durability grades of low, medium and high for paint systems in various environments and levels of surface preparation?

True or false: ISO has pictorial standards and other means of evaluating the degree of coating defects, such as blistering, rusting, cracking, flaking and chalking.

What is the subject of an SSPC/NACE standard that describes a “body of knowledge"?

True or false: The ASTM solvent rub test to determine cure of inorganic zinc-rich coatings allows both MEK and toluene to be used as the solvent.

True or false: The results of the solvent rub test for cure of ethyl silicate inorganic zinc-rich coatings, ASTM D4752, can be ambiguous, according to JPCL writers.

True or false: A mandrel is used to test the crack resistance of coatings.

True or false: The Cool Roof Rating Council is recognized by the EPA to certify roofing products for the ENERGY STAR program.

True or false: In one test method, pencils are used to determine the hardness of coatings.

True or false: There is a standard for coating wastewater facilities similar to the one for water tanks, American Water Works Association D102, Coating Steel Water-Storage Tanks.

True or false: Visual standard photos are an integral part of ISO hand- and power-tool cleaning standards, and the written standards recommend that use of the visual standards be made mandatory in the project specification.

True or false: SSPC has a Paint Application standard for applying intumescent coatings to steel.

True or false: The American Water Works Association tests for health effects and certifies coatings for use in contact with potable water.

Which of the following answers organizes four SSPC abrasive blasting standards from least to most rigorous?

True or false: SSPC publishes four standards for waterjetting and four standards for wet abrasive blasting.

True or false: In ASTM’s standard on test methods for field measurement of surface profile, the use of a comparator is described.

True or false: ASTM has a specification for silicone coatings used over spray polyurethane foam roofing.

True or false: According to ASTM, a pinhole in a coating extends entirely through the applied film.

SSPC has one PCCP/QP standard that is jointly issued with what other organization?

What organization has standards for silicone and moisture cure polyurethane coatings to be used over spray polyurethane foam roofing?

True or false: Photographic standards from the International Concrete Repair Institute (ICRI) can be used to judge the degree of surface profile on concrete.

True or false: Tack-free and dry-to-touch times after coating application are not the same.

True or false: SSPC does not have a standard for hand-tool cleaning of steel that requires a surface profile.

True or false: ASTM has one test method to determine the pull-off adhesion of coatings for both steel and concrete substrates.

True or false: There are industry standard categories distinguishing among sealers, stain blockers and primers.

According to ASTM, what is the function of a fire-retardant coating?

A contact stylus profilometer was used to create what standard?

True or false: The anhydrous calcium chloride test can measure the level of salt contamination on concrete substrates.

True or false: The Building Research Establishment in Australia has developed an environmental assessment method with the acronym STREAM for buildings and new communities.

SSPC issued a new performance specification last month for what paint type?

True or false: According to a recent D+D In Depth article, there are no standards for durable color performance of field-applied coatings with bright colors, such as Safety Red.

How do SSPC wet abrasive blasting standards determine the degree of flash rusting after wet abrasive blasting?

True or false: Non-woven abrasive pads are a form of coated abrasive.

OSHA has developed how many sets of regulations on abrasive blasting?

Which of the following is not the subject of an SSPC Qualification Procedure (QP)?

True or false: Australia has a painting contractor certification program similar to the one overseen by the SSPC in the U.S.

Which of the following organizations has standards for selecting and using concrete repair materials?

True or false: A European coating supplier has bristle blasting standards that are said to be equivalent to power tool cleaning standards.

True or false: Use of replica putty, as described in an ASTM standard, provides only a visual assessment of surface profile on concrete.

What recent acquisition gives the NACE International Institute the capability to conduct training, certification and standards development in the area of commercial coatings?

What organization publishes standards for the treatment of historic properties?

In what SSPC standard can you find requirements for frequency and location of instrument readings and evaluation criteria to ensure that the surface profile over the entire prepared surface complies with project requirements are included?

True or false: Among SSPC power tool cleaning standards, only SSPC-SP 11, Power Tool Cleaning to Bare Metal, requires a surface profile.

True or false: Conformance with specified requirements for cleanliness of steel after surface preparation, as described in SSPC standards, is carried out without the aid of instruments.

True or false: SSPC publishes its disciplinary actions against PCCP-certified contractors.

The International Maritime Organization developed the Performance Standard for Protective Coatings for Dedicated Seawater Ballast Tanks (PSPC) as an amendment to SOLAS.

True or false: ISO offers a standard that gives durability grades of low, medium, and high for paint systems in various environments and levels of surface preparation.

A White Metal Blast, SSPC-SP 5, allows what to remain on the surface after blast cleaning?

True or false: In SSPC’s rust grade scale, a rust grade of 10 indicates that greater than 50 percent of the steel surface is rusted.

True or false: One performance criterion in AAMA 714-15 for liquid-applied flashing is tolerance to application over damp surfaces.

True or false: SSPC photos in Vis 1 showing degrees of cleaning of steel take precedence over the descriptions of required cleanliness in SSPC's written surface preparation standards.

True or false: MEK is specified for use in the ASTM solvent rub test for organic zinc-rich coatings.

True or false: SSPC has a performance standard for coatings on steel in waste treatment facilities.

True or false: Ryan Zinke is in charge of the cabinet department that sets standards for the preservation, rehabilitation, restoration and reconstruction of historic structures.

What organization sets the highest performance standard for coatings over aluminum extrusions and panels?

How many of SSPC's surface preparation standards describe the results of power tool cleaning of steel?

True or false: A contractor with no experience in industrial or marine painting projects can apply for contractor certification.

True or false: The Japan Ship Technology Research Technical Association produces standards on surface preparation of steel.

True or False: The AAMA issues performance standards for topcoats over EIFS.

What is the acronym for Japanese surface preparation standards?

SSPC has what in common with FROSIO?

The standard ISO8501, the international standard for dry abrasive blasting, describes results of four degrees of blast cleaning, Sa 1, Sa 2, Sa 21/2 and Sa 3. What does the Sa stand for, according to a PaintSquare blog?

Which of the following ISO 8501-1 standards is equivalent to SSPC-SP 6, Commercial Blast?

SSPC publishes visual standards for what cleaning method?

What organization offers a professional registration as a roof coating consultant?

Recommendations in SSPC-Guide 12 on lighting of industrial coating projects, formerly derived from the now defunct ANSI/IES, Practice for Industrial Lighting, have been replaced with recommendations from what state’s specification on bridge construction?

The so-called “Swedish Standards” preceded what notable SSPC publication?

True or false: SSPC has a performance standard for coatings on concrete in waste treatment facilities.

True or false: The photographic guides developed by SSPC to aid in the assessment of surface cleanliness were designed to be used with a hand-held magnifying glass when examining blast-cleaned steel and comparing it with the VIS-1 photos?

True or false: Aggregate exposure on a concrete floor designated as “cream” by the Concrete Polishing Association (CPAA) is defined as “fine aggregate exposure with little or no medium aggregate exposure at random locations.”

What is the abbreviation for the emission standard set by EPA to cover exposure to hazardous air pollutants in steel fabrication and paint shops, among other facilities?

What is the order of SSPC power-tool cleaning standards, from most to least rigorous?

True or false: Hand-tool and power-tool surface preparation standards in the U.S. are jointly issued by SSPC and NACE.

True or false: The conformance of blast-cleaned steel with surface preparation specifications, such as SSPC-SP 10, is assessed visually without the aid of instrumentation.

What organization is developing a decorative concrete flatwork certification program?

What organization offers a Concrete Coating Inspector program?

What organization publishes a joint standard with SSPC on shop application of coatings?

How many “National/International” green certifications for coatings are listed in a recent Durability + Design Magazine article?

True or false: SSPC visual standards showing degrees of cleaning of steel take precedence over the descriptions of required cleanliness in SSPC's written surface preparation standards.

Which of the following statements about SSPC-SP 11, Power Tool Cleaning to Bare Metal, is correct?

To meet the requirements of AAMA 2605, what generic coating type would you be most likely to specify?

What is the name of the test that provides a method of determining the flammability characteristics of exterior, non-load-bearing wall assemblies/panels?

What is the name of the provision in OSHA standards that is used in inspections where there are no specific standards applicable to the particular hazard involved?

What organization is developing a standard tentatively titled “Laboratory Performance Requirements for Coatings for Concrete Masonry Units in Air Barrier Assemblies”?

True or false: The water vapor transmission of a coating is not a linear function of a coating’s film thickness.

What organization has a standard measuring the functional durability of spray-applied, fire-resistive coatings?

True or false: Photographic standards are sometimes used to assess the degree of cracking of exterior coatings.

True or false: According to a recent JPCL article, the threshold values in ASTM standards for deeming concrete suitable to be coated are neither achievable nor realistic for below-grade structures.

True or false: The American Coatings Association issues the Green Mark Certification for environmentally friendly paints.

What organization has validated a Wall Coating Applicator Training Program?

True or False: ASTM D3359, “Standard Test Method for Measuring Adhesion by Tape Test,” measures the tensile adhesion of a coating.

How is profile measured in ASTM D4417?

What organization is developing the Guide for Detection of Moisture in Walls and Ceilings?

True or false: The Performance Standard for Protective Coatings (PSPC) was created by ISO.

True or false: Germany has a painting contractor certification program modeled after the one overseen by SSPC in the U.S.

What organization jointly publishes a QP (Qualification Procedure) standard with SSPC?

What organization produces standards for the surface preparation of concrete?

True or false: All of the SSPC mechanical surface preparation standards require solvent cleaning to SSPC-SP 1 prior to performing any additional cleaning required by the project specification.

True or false: SSPC-SP 10 is the most rigorous degree of cleaning steel by abrasive blasting.

What organization offers a standard that gives durability grades of low, medium, and high for paint systems in various environments and levels of surface preparation?

True or false: MPI publishes performance standards for coatings over aluminum extrusions and panels.

How many inspector programs and certificates does SSPC offer?

True or false: SSPC has a standard for brush-off blast cleaning of steel and a second one for concrete.

What is the topic of the five new standards SSPC just released?

Synthetic dirt is used in accelerated laboratory testing of what type of coating material?

True or false: In the five joint SSPC/NACE Wet Abrasive Blast-Cleaning Standards completed in 2015, the definitions of cleanliness for the steel surface immediately following wet abrasive blast-cleaning are identical to the definitions in the five dry abrasive blast-cleaning standards.

True or false: SSPC has surface preparation standards for concrete that are equivalent to its abrasive blasting surface preparation standards for steel–SSPC-SP 5, SP 6, SP 7, and SP 10.

What organization is engaged in performance testing of bridge coatings for state highway departments?

What organization offers a certification for persons who test the moisture content of concrete slabs?

The Graffiti Resource Council is an affiliate of what larger organization?

True or false: SSPC recently issued a performance-based acrylic coating standard for commercial masonry and concrete structures.

True or false: The AAMA has a performance specification for liquid-applied flashing materials.

True or false: SSPC’s Subcommittee on roof coatings is developing a guideline to assist specifiers in selecting suitable protective coatings for SPF roofing.

Five joint SSPC/NACE cleaning standards were created in 2015 on what subject?

What organization developed the blast cleaning standards in Japan?

True or False: Finishing of gypsum wallboard is covered by ASTM and AAMA standards.

True or false: AAMA 2605 is a specification and test method used to evaluate coil coatings on aluminum for impact resistance, chemical and corrosion resistance, adhesion and weatherability.

True or false: ASTM publishes performance standards for coatings applied over aluminum extrusions.

True or false: If a school system wanted to require an SSPC-certified contractor to paint a building, it would specify certification according to SSPC-OP 8.

What two organizations worked cooperatively in the last few years to revise their standards on measuring dry film thickness of coatings?

True or false: SSPC has published a performance-based standard for elastomeric paints on masonry and concrete.

True or false: SSPC visual standards showing degrees of cleaning of steel take precedence over the descriptions of required cleanliness in SSPC’s written surface preparation standards.

What organization issued a standard in 2012 for measuring the profile of concrete after surface preparation?

What SSPC certification program deals with a broad range of topics with which the experienced coatings consultant, inspector, manager, specifier and project manager should be familiar?

What organization has published a 5th edition of a manual on test sieving methods?

True or false: Respirator types suitable for use in Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health (IDLH) atmospheres do not include a combination full-facepiece pressure-demand supplied-air respirator (SAR) with auxiliary self-contained air supply.

What organization published a voluntary standard in 2015 on reactive coatings for fire protection of metallic substrates?

SSPC and what other organization offer a certification for shop application of coatings to structural steel?

SSPC-SP 5/NACE No. 1 is most closely aligned with what ISO surface preparation standard?

True or false: Five methods are available for determining the presence of moisture in concrete floor slabs, and all are addressed by ASTM standards.

True or false: The SWR Institute issues performance standards for coatings over aluminum extrusions and panels.

What organization tests and certifies coatings in contact with potable water?

True or false: The various dry film thickness testing standards used around the world are significantly different from one another.

What organization publishes an architectural painting specification manual?

What organization publishes a standard procedure for describing the size and density of the blisters so that comparisons of severity can be made?

True or false: NORSOK offers a standard that gives durability grades of low, medium, and high for paint systems in various environments and levels of surface preparation.

What do Knoop and Pfund have in common?

True or false: SSPC recently issued a standard on measuring slip resistance of flooring materials.

True or false: SSPC’s recently issued technology update on fluoropolymer finish coats deals with architectural as well as industrial applications.

The Commission Internationale d’Eclairage deals with what kinds of issues related to coatings?

True or false: There is currently no complete industry-wide performance standard for bridge deck waterproofing work in North America.

True or false: AAMA 2605 requires 7 years of successful performance by organic coatings on aluminum substrates exposed outdoors at a South Florida test site.

What ASTM committee focuses on coating work for the power industry?

True or false: SSPC has a standard describing test methods for measuring surface profile.

True or false: According to a recent JPCL article, ISO’s Sa 2 “thorough” blast cleaning standard is equivalent to SSPC-SP 14, NACE No. 8 Industrial Blast Cleaning.

True or false: While there are some quantitative requirements for levels of cleanliness in SSPC/NACE abrasive blasting standards (less than 5% stains allowed in Near-White blast cleaning), qualitative rather than quantitative assessments must be made to determine compliance with these requirements.

True or false: Australia has a painting contractor certification program similar to SSPC’s PCCP in the U.S.

True or false: Persons designated as Program Administrators of a company’s respiratory protection program must be trained and certified by OSHA.

What is the name of the Norwegian standards on coating and surface preparation?

What organization created a standard definition of “coating work”?

What is the name of the provision in OSHA standards that is used in inspections where there are no specific standards applicable to the particular hazard involved?

True or false: With the ISO blast cleaning standards, the visual standards are an integral part of the written standard; that is, the reference to the applicable pictures is part of the written description.

The International Maritime Organization developed the Performance Standard for Protective Coatings for Dedicated Seawater Ballast Tanks (PSPC) as an amendment to what regulation?

In addition to the American Architectural Manufacturers Association, what other organization has a specification for coatings on architectural aluminum?

What AAMA specification for coatings over aluminum extrusions and panels requires 10 years of successful exposure at a South Florida test site?

What organization offers education and certification of EIFS mechanics, inspectors, and industry professionals?

True or false: Australia has a Painting Contractor Certification Program (PCCP).

What organization publishes performance standards for coatings on aluminum panels and extrusions?

What agency created the PM-10 standard?

What organization offers a standard that gives durability grades of low, medium and high for paint systems in various environments and levels of surface preparation?

What organization certifies the qualifications of painting contractors that apply architectural paints and coatings?

True or false: Minergie certification of building quality was developed in Canada.

Which of the following is not currently the subject of standards development by the SSPC Commercial Coatings Committee?

True or false: NFPA 33, Standard for Spray Application Using Flammable or Combustible Materials, provides ventilation guidelines for containment structures used on bridges during painting operations.

True or false: The ASTM standard for moisture mitigation systems on concrete slabs for use under resilient flooring requires that the coating system have a permeance of 6 perms or less.

What organization published a revised standard in 2012 on measuring dry film coating thickness that focuses on frequency of measurements and acceptablility of acquired results?

Which of the following is not the subject of an SSPC Qualification Procedure (QP)?

True or false: The Norsok M 501 standard on protective coatings was created by the Norwegian petroleum industry.

What organization has a surface preparation standard for brush-off blast cleaning of non-ferrous metals?

True or false: SSPC is developing performance standards for architectural coating materials.

True or false: In the document "GA-214, Recommended Levels of Gypsum Board Finish," GA stands for “Gypsum Appearance.”

Who awards certification for conforming with the requirements in the Green Guide for Health Care?

True or false: SSPC’s CAS (Coating Application Specialist) training and certification is based upon a joint SSPC/IUPAT standard.

True or false: CEN produces European standards.

True or false: The American Iron and Steel Institute publishes the “Standard for Shop Application of Complex Protective Coating Systems.”

True or False: New coating standards published by SSPC in 2013 are composition-based, not performance-based.

Which of the following organizations does not certify the performance of coating materials?

What organization provides education and certification of concrete slab moisture testing technicians?

Where will you find the body of knowledge an applicator must master to become a certified industrial applicator?

SSPC and NACE have how many joint standards on waterjet cleaning of metals?

What organization is creating a training and certification program for commercial painters?

What organization certifies coatings as acceptable for contact with potable water?

True or False: SSPC and NACE jointly publish a standard on applicator training and certification for commercial painters.

What organization is developing a qualification and certification program for architectural coating applicators?

What is the subject of an SSPC/NACE standard that describes a “body of knowledge?”

True or false: SSPC has initiated development of performance standards for architectural coating materials.

True or False: There is an ISO performance standard for coating systems used on offshore structures.

True or False: Like their counterparts for steel, there are four SSPC surface preparation standards describing the end condition of concrete after cleaning.

What organization publishes performance standards for coatings on aluminum extrusions and panels?

True or False: In judging the conformance of abrasive blast cleaning of steel with SSPC standards, such as SSPC-SP 10, the photos in SSPC-VIS 1 depicting levels of cleanliness take precedence over the written descriptions of required levels of cleanliness.

SSPC-VIS 1, now called Guide and Reference Photographs for Steel Surfaces Prepared by Dry Abrasive Blast Cleaning, was originally produced by what other standards organization?

How many specifications does the American Architectural Manufacturers’ Association provide for finishing aluminum extrusions and panels with organic coatings?

True or False: AAMA Subcommittee D01.42 deals with standards for architectural coatings.

SSPC/NACE standards for waterjet cleaning describe how many levels of cleanliness?

True or False: Wire bristle tools were recently classified as impact power tools in SSPC power tool cleaning standards.

True or False: Finishing of gypsum wallboard is covered by ASTM and AAMA standards.

What organization developed a standard practice for building enclosure commissioning?

True or False: SSPC has a standard on using plural-component spray equipment.

Which of the following ISO 8501-1 standards is equivalent to SSPC-SP 6, Commercial blast?

Which of the following cleaning standards is SSPC in the process of revising?

What description fits Initial Condition D of steel before blasting?

What organization recently issued a performance standard for coatings on concrete in waste treatment facilities?

What are GreenSure and Green Promise paints?

True or False? The ISO has developed and is implementing a performance standard for coatings on cargo oil tankers.

What organization is the U.S. representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)?

If a university dormitory were being painted and an SSPC-certified contractor was required, what QP standard would be invoked?

What organization, in addition to SSPC, offers a certification for shop painting or bridge and highway steel?

How many levels of drywall finish are described in GA 214-10?

True or false: A large school system that wanted to utilize certified painting contractors would invoke SSPC-QP 1 in its specifications.

The standards-writing organization, ASTM International, had another name before 2001. What was it?

True or false: SSPC visual standards showing degrees of cleaning of steel take precedence over the descriptions of required cleanliness in SSPC’s written surface preparation standards.

True or false: All the SSPC surface preparation standards are issued jointly with NACE.

What organization offers training and certification in architectural coatings at the levels of technologist, specialist, and inspector?

What is the subject of SSPC standard AB 4?

Which of the following SSPC abrasive blast cleaning standards requires the most rigorous degree of cleaning of steel?

What is the name of the provision in OSHA standards that is used in inspections where there are no specific standards applicable to the particular hazard involved?

Which of the following answers organizes SSPC abrasive blasting standards from least to most rigorous?

What is the alpha-numeric designation of the recently published SSPC standard describing recommended best practice in applying plural component polyureas and polyurethanes?

If a facility owner wanted to require an SSPC-certified contractor for painting a school building, he/she would specify certification according to what standard?

Which of the following statements about SSPC-SP 11, Power Tool Cleaning to Bare Metal, is correct?

What organization does not produce standards for the surface preparation of concrete?

True or false: An SSPC standard was recently published to provide a standard set of acceptance criteria to determine compliance with surface profile requirements in project specifications.

What is the subject of the JSRA SPSS standard?

What is the alphanumeric designation of the SSPC Paint Application Standard for measuring the thickness of dry coatings on concrete?

What is the subject of the most recently issued SSPC standard?

The Deutsches Institut für Normung produces what group of standards?

True or false: The ASTM standard test method for measuring pull-off adhesion of coatings on concrete is the same one used for measuring pull-off adhesion of coatings on steel.

True or false: There is an SSPC power tool cleaning surface preparation standard describing a degree of cleanliness that falls between Power Tool Cleaning, SSPC-SP 3, and Power Tool Cleaning to Bare Metal, SSPC-SP 11.

In what country are NORSOK Standards created?

What ASTM committee deals with performance of buildings as its main subject?

True or false: SSPC published a surface preparation standard, now discontinued, describing flame cleaning of steel.

Which organization has an “Extreme Green” standard, billed as “the toughest environmental paint standard in the world?”

SSPC’s Coating Application Specialist Standard, ACS-1, is issued jointly with what other organization?

What country has a painting contractor certification program similar to the one overseen by the SSPC in the U.S.?

What is the main subject of ISO 12944?

Where do you find the “body of knowledge” applicators must have in order to become certified industrial applicators?

The IMO’s Performance Standard for Protective Coatings for corrosion protection of cargo tanks in crude oil carriers requires that coatings applied to new tanks must have a useful life of how many years in good condition?

What organization publishes the Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties?

True or False: SSPC’s recent revisions to SSPC-SP 11 and SSPC-SP 15 changed the standards’ requirements for surface cleanliness and minimum surface profile.

True or False: Federal agencies must comply with the same health and safety standards as private-sector employers.

What two organizations recently worked cooperatively to revise their standards on measuring dry film thickness of coatings?

“Surface Preparation and Cleaning of Metals by Waterjetting Prior to Coating” is a newly revised standard by:

What organization recently issued a standard for measuring the profile of concrete after surface preparation?

Which one of SSPC’s qualification procedure (QP) standards was recently revised in content and format?

True or False: The Australasian Corrosion Association is licensed to teach SSPC’s C7 Abrasive Blasting course.

Which of the following answers organizes SSPC abrasive blasting standards from most to least rigorous?

True or false: There are standard tests to determine performance of air barrier materials.

What is the scope of ASTM Committee D33?

SSPC is developing a revised version of its standard on measuring dry film thickness. What is the alphanumeric name of this standard?

True or false: SSPC has participated in development of an Aerospace Coating Applicator certification and training program.

True or false: All the SSPC surface preparation standards are issued jointly with NACE.

What country, in addition to the United States, has a Painting Contractor Certification Program (PCCP) for protective and marine coating contractors?

True or false: SSPC has surface preparation standards for concrete that are equivalent to their abrasive blasting surface preparation standards for steel–SSPC-SP 5, SP 6, SP 7, and SP 10.

What standard classifies the durability of anti-corrosion paint systems as low, medium, and high?

True or false: Both SSPC and NACE have standards that describe how to measure dry film thickness of coatings on concrete.

True or false: SSPC has never revoked the certification of a contractor in its Painting Contractor Certification Program.

True or false: ISO Sa2.5, describing very thorough abrasive blast cleaning, gives a more comprehensive written description of the end condition of the steel after blasting than SSPC SP 10/NACE No. 2, Near white metal, which requires a similar end condition.

With SSPC abrasive blasting standards, if a Near White Blast Cleaning (SSPC-SP 10) is required, the following additional standard is invoked:

The ISO surface preparation standard Sa 3 most closely resembles what SSPC/NACE surface preparation standard?

ASTM International’s Committee D-1 is developing its first-ever standard for what?

SSPC recently announced the launch of a new "interest group" that will focus on development of standards and guides for which of the following?

Which of the following organizations is planning to develop a set of national standards for repairing, restoring and weatherization of older and historic windows?

True or false: SSPC has a standard for measuring dry film thickness of paint over concrete substrates.

In the protective coatings industry, the phrase “Swedish Standards” most often refers to what?

Which of the following statements about SSPC-SP 11, Power Tool Cleaning to Bare Metal, is correct?

Which of the AAMA performance standards for coatings on aluminum extrusions and panels is the most stringent?

SSPC's photographic guides for visual assessment of surface cleanliness after blast cleaning are designed to be used in what way?

SSPC has how many surface preparation standards for various degrees of power tool cleaning?

What is the subject of SSPC Visual Standard photos in SSPC-VIS 6?

Who awards certification for conforming with the requirements in The Green Guide for Health Care?

What organization offers a standard that gives durability grades of low, medium, and high for paint systems in various environments and levels of surface preparation?

What organization produces standards for the surface preparation of concrete?

If a hospital system wanted to require an SSPC-certified contractor for a job, it would specify certification according to what standard?

True or false: ASTM publishes descriptions of solvent rub tests for both inorganic and organic coatings, which are sometimes used to assess degree of cure.

True or false: Green Seal publishes standards on low-emitting paints.

True or false: The SSPC surface preparation standards were numbered according to the chronological order in which they were adopted, not according to their degree of thoroughness.

True or False: In judging whether surface preparation of steel meets specified requirements, SSPC visual standards take precedence over the written standards.

What organization developed Performance Standards for Protective Coatings in ballast tanks on ships?

The SSPC's Painting Contractor Certification Program (PCCP) was substantially influenced in its development by the already established certification program of what association?

According to ASTM D 6083, how thick should an acrylic reflective roof coating be?

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