CSP

Certified Safety Professional (CSP)

Program Overview

Certified Safety Professionals (CSP) are persons who perform at least 50% of professional level safety duties, including making worksite assessments to determine risks, assessing potential hazards and controls, evaluating risks and hazard control measures, investigating incidents, maintaining and evaluating incident and loss records, and preparing emergency response plans. Other duties could include hazard recognition, fire protection, regulatory compliance, health hazard control, ergonomics, hazardous materials management, environmental protection, training, accident and incident, investigations, advising management, record keeping, emergency response, managing safety programs, product safety and/or security.

REQUIREMENTS

• Will have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree.
• Will have four (4) years of safety experience where safety is at least 50%, preventative, professional level with breadth and depth of safety duties.
• Will have a BCSP Qualified Credential:
• Associate Safety Professional (ASP)
• Graduate Safety Practitioner (GSP)
• Transitional Safety Practitioner (TSP)
• Certified Industrial Hygienist® (CIH®)
• Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (CMIOSH)**
• Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP)
• CP-12 Professional Certificate in Safety and Occupational Health, U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center (ACRC)
• Certified Safety Engineer (CSE), as administered by the State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS), People’s Republic of China (PRC)
• Master in Occupational Safety and Health, International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITC-ILO)
• Member in the Institute of Safety Professionals of Nigeria (MISPN)
• NEBOSH National or International Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Professional Member of the Singapore Institution of Safety Officers (SISO)
• Diploma/Certificate in Industrial Safety, as issued by the State Government Departments Boards of Technical Education, Government of India.
• Must pass the CSP examination.
• Retain your certification.
• Pay annual renewal fee.
• Meet recertification requirements.

When applying for the CSP with a degree from a college outside the United States, that degree will be evaluated for U.S. equivalency. Details on the documentation required, requested during the application process, can be found online here.

Note that all education requirements must be met when pursuing the CSP.

BENEFITS OF CERTIFICATION

Hiring Preferences and Salary Increases: Advertisements for safety professionals often identify the CSP certification or other BCSP credentials as a desired or required qualification along with education and experience. Human resource managers and those hiring people for government positions depend on professional certification to ensure candidates have met minimum qualifications.

THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS

Apply Online

BCSP requires you to create a profile at bcsp.org to start the application process. You will need to login for the first time by creating an account through the “My Profile” portal on the right hand corner of every bcsp.org webpage. Once you have created your account you will select the “Apply for Certification” menu button to start your application. 

Course Objectives

1. Apply risk management principles
2. Identify safety management theories
3. Identify basic machine guarding techniques
4. Use basic algebra and trigonometry to solve various safety problems
5. Identify ergonomic risk factors
6. Solve basic engineering economy problems
7. Identify/apply the industrial hygiene principles of recognition, evaluation, and control of health hazards
8. Identify the symptoms associated with various toxicants
9. Identify fire hazards and methods of control
10. Select the appropriate personal protective equipment for a variety of hazards
11. Name types of environmental controls
12. Name at least three significant environmental events