Certified%20Safety%20Professional

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Certified Safety Professional

• Advancing the Safety, Health and Environmental
  Professional
• since 1969
• Board of Certified Safety Professionals
• www.bcsp.org

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The Safety Professional

• Masters a body of knowledge
• Masters skills
• Is experienced
• Acts from principles and practices
• Is responsible
• Serves as advisor

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Body of Knowledge
Business
Education
Information Technology
THE SAFETY PROFESSION
Law Government
Engineering
- Safety - Industrial Hygiene - Fire Protection -
Environment - Program Management - Other
Ergonomics
Health
Human Behavior
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About BCSP

• Established 1969
• Not-for-profit
• Not a membership organization
• 13 directors

• 6 membership organizations
• AIHA
• ASSE
• IIE
• NSC
• SFPE
• SSS

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Technologist/Technician Certifications

• Council on Certification of Health, Environmental
  and Safety Technologists (CCHEST)
• Occupational Health and Safety Technologist
  (OHST)
• Construction Health and Safety Technician (CHST)
• Experience credit toward CSP
• Flexible qualifications
• Students in accredited safety programs can sit
  for examination after 2nd year
• Degrees and certificates can get credit
• Recognized national accreditation
• Single examination

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CSPs

• CSPs issued since 18,000
• 1969
• Current CSPs 10,600
• Current candidates
• in process
• ASPs 900
• Applicants 2,200

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CSP Education
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CSP Education Trends
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CSP Gender
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What CSPs Do
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Safety, Health, and Environmental (SHE)
Functions of CSPs
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Where CSPs Work
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Dual Certifications
CPE Certified Professional Ergonomist CHMM
Certified Hazardous Materials Manager ARM Associ
ate in Risk Management CIH Certified Industrial
Hygienist PE Professional Engineer
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CSP Professional Memberships(The average CSP
holds 1 or 2 memberships)
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CSP Value

• PERSONAL
• EMPLOYER
• EMPLOYMENT

• Enhances self image
• Exemplifies professional credibility
• Increases marketability
• Promotions, pay increases, bonuses or awards
• Hiring preference
• Compete for positions
• Compete for contracts

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CSP Pay

• Average 84,245/yr (BCSP, 2004)
• (ISHN readership, 1999)
• Average differential 16,000/yr
• Career differential 320,000
• (ASSE membership, 2003)
• Average differential 17,000/yr
• Career differential 340,000
• (AIHA membership, 2004)
• Average differential 23,000/yr
• Career differential 460,000

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CSP Salaries
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CSP Salaries

• 1997 ISHN 62,000 Holding CSP
• 46,000 No cert
• held
• 2003 ASSE 65,673 ASSE member
• 83,036 Holding
  CSP
• 2000 BCSP 75,358 Holding CSP
• 2004 BCSP 84,245 Holding CSP

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Job AdsCSP Required or DesiredASSEs
Professional Safety Magazine
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CSP Recognition

• FEDERAL LEVEL
• OSHA
• EPA
• Military
• OPM (Office of Personnel Management)
• STATE LEVEL
• Regulations and standards
• Loss control services and WC laws
• Title protection
• LOCAL LEVEL
• Chicago and New York City

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Alliance with OSHA

• BCSP and OSHA partner in 2003 and sign Alliance
  agreement
• Enhances education and professional expertise
• Promotes safety competence
• Encourage enhanced knowledge of workplace safety
  and health programs, processes, and regulations
• CCHEST joins Alliance in 2004

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National Accreditation -National Commission for
Certifying Agencies-Council of Engineering and
Scientific Specialty Boards -ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024
(Certification of Persons)

• Governance
• Elections, public involvement
• Financial disclosure
• Independence
• Examination validity and
• reliability
• Fairness
• Passing scores, non-discrimination, due process

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National Accreditation/Recognition

• Over 200 titles in safety, health, environment,
  and ergonomics in the U.S.
• 16 titles are nationally accredited
• CSP accredited by NCCA, CESB, and ANSI/ISO/IEC
  17024
• CSP recognized by NSSB
• CCHESTs OHST and STS certifications accredited
  by CESB and NCCA (CHST by CESB)

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Revalidation of Examinations

• Role delineation workshop (November 1998)
• 16 volunteer CSPs charted responsibilities,
  knowledge and skills
• (from manufacturing, chemical processing,
  electronics, transportation, mining, education,
  utilities, labor, insurance, government,
  consulting, health care)
• Survey of 1,500 CSPs (March-May 1999)
• Rate on frequency, importance, criticality
• Results determine blueprint for examination
• Revised CSP examinations in place (December 2001)

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The CSP Process

• Apply
• Qualify
• Education
• Experience
• Pass examination
• Safety Fundamentals ---gt ASP
• Comprehensive Practice ---gt CSP
• Continuance of Certification

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Education Requirement

• Minimum
• Associate degree in safety and health
• Bachelors degree in any field
• Credit
• Accredited safety and health bachelors degree
  full credit
• Other degrees partial credit additional
  experience
• Eligible for Safety Fundamentals when academic
  requirement met
• Graduate study counts toward experience

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Experience Requirement

• 1 month experience 1 point
• 4 years minimum any needed to fill education
  requirement
• Criteria for professional experience
• Safety is primary duty
• Main function is prevention of harm
• Safety is at least 50 of full time position or
  equivalent
• Professional level (recommend hazard controls)
• Breadth of duty safety tasks, hazard types, etc.
• Eligible for Safety Fundamentals examination when
  48 points obtained eligible for Comprehensive
  Practice examination _at_ 96 points
• Obtaining OHST or CHST counts as one year of
  experience (12 points)

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Safety Fundamentals Examination
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Comprehensive Practice Examination
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Continuance of Certification

• 25 points every 5 years
• 10 categories, including
• -membership
• -practice
• -service
• -continuing education
• -writing
• -new degree
• -re-examination
• -etc.

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Computer Testing

• Offered every business day
• 300 locations in North America
• Immediate results
• 200 multiple-choice items
• Examinations 5 and 5 1/2 hours each
• Test takers can return to marked items
• Passing score based on item difficulty
• Questions written by practitioners
• Content based on surveys of practitioners

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Summary

• The safety profession is changing
• Certification is increasing in value
• National accreditation is the standard
• Meeting standards of peers provides benefits
• Demonstrated competence impacts a career
• High job satisfaction level