Certified Safety Professional (CSP)

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.

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.

Enhance Your Self-Esteem:

 The most frequent reported value derived from achieving a BCSP credential is increased self-esteem and personal satisfaction. Most newly-certified individuals report that achieving their certification increases their personal worth.

A major factor is having met standards established by peers for professional safety practice. It indicates that you have risen above the competition because you have been evaluated by professional peers against those standards.

Share Your Knowledge For Professional Safety Practice: 

Having achieved a certification shows you have mastered the core knowledge required for professional safety practice. The Safety Salary Survey shows that the certification process provided them with appropriate qualifications in the field. The certification did what it is intended to do – ensured the knowledge necessary for practice.

Gain An Advantage Over Your Peers: 

Due to the high quality of BCSP credentials, as demonstrated by its compliance with national and/or internationally recognized standards for certification of persons, most holding a BCSP credential have created an edge for themselves.

As recognition for BCSP credentials grow among employers, government agencies, peers, and the public; those holding one have a competitive advantage for safety positions and assignments.