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The Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) and the National Safety Council (NSC) are combining efforts to deliver a global, state-of-the-art pre-exam training through an online asynchronous approach with examCORE by BCSP.

In support of those seeking the benefits of higher education, BCSP offers several tools and programs designed to aid college students throughout the entire collegiate process. From those just beginning their college career, to those nearly ready to enter the workforce, BCSP aims to guide the future safety practitioners of the world in any way we can.

The BCSP Foundation looks forward to continuing to provide support to young, aspiring SH&E professionals pursuing higher education, essential to effectively attaining a rewarding, lucrative future in safety. This support acknowledges that young safety professionals will be the reason for safety innovation and improvements, that they will be the reason for reduction in workplace fatalities and injuries, and we must continue to invest in the future of safety.

The Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) is offering the Certified Safety Professional (CSP) certification’s exam for a reduced price as part of the CSP10 Beta Exam incentive.

The BCSP Foundation brought together safety leaders from around the world for its first Biennial Research and Innovation Summit, held at the JW Marriot Conference Center in Indianapolis, Indiana on August 6 and 7, 2019.

The Board of Certified Safety Professionals began as a professional development project formed by an executive committee of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE—now ASSP) in 1963. This beginning would shape the future of safety as a profession, beginning with the Certified Safety Professional (CSP) certification, which was first offered in 1970. Over the next 49 years, BCSP would go on to introduce seven additional certifications and two designations.

We have added new content to your Certification Management System (CMS) profile that will support our efforts to spread knowledge of safety certificants’ contributions to the profession and promote the value of certification in key industries.

A new tool, known as KSA Quest (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities), is available which provides an additional avenue for BCSP certificants to achieve recertification points through professional development, demonstrate their knowledge, and garner public recognition with a new display available for digital badge profiles.

For many safety professionals, pursuing safety as a career is something that they find somewhere along the way, a path they may not have always envisioned taking, but found that it merits a strong career choice. For others safety finds them, sometimes through unfortunate means. For Joe Atkinson SMS, currently in his 15th year of SH&E service, it was a workplace injury his mother sustained while he was a child that would set him on the path to becoming a safety professional.

With the influx of business approaching this industry, it’s important to remember the need to keep workers safe. Hazards in the pyrotechnic industry occur in the manufacturing, storing, transporting, displaying, and selling stages.