Academic and skill requirements

The knowledge and skill requirements to enter the practice of safety and to fulfill the requirements of professional safety practice are discussed in Chapter 5, Academic and Skill Requirements for the Practice of Safety. Those knowledge and skill requirements are, of necessity, exceptionally broad. 

Note the term a common body of knowledge. In the process of researching and writing Chapter 5, Academic and skill Requirements for the Practice of Safety, I concluded that the Curriculum Standards for Baccalaureate Degrees in Safety, jointly pubMshed by the Academic Accreditation Council of the American Society of Safety Engineers and the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, estabhsh a rigor of education that adequately prepares one to enter the safety profession. 

This section was chosen because of its breadth—occupational injury and illness, environmental, the public, property damage, and product safety. BCSP makes its Comprehensive Practice Examination Guide available on the Internet as a free download. (Extensive comment is made in Chapter 4, Academic and Skill Requirements for the Practice of Safety, on the transitions that have taken place with respect to knowledge and skill requirements for safety professionals as represented by the major changes in the BCSP examinations.)... 

Why update a chapter on financial management for this book Knowledge and skill requirements for safety professionals are in transition and expanding. Chapter 4, Academic and Skill Requirements for the Practice of Safety, includes a review of the sixth edition (2011) of the examination guide for the Certified Safety Professional (CSP) designation published by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals... 

With respect to the order of chapters, it was suggested by professors who use the book that the chapters representing basics about the practice of safety be the leading chapters. So, the first four chapters are now On Becoming a Profession, Defining the Practice of Safety, Principles for the Practice of Safety A Basis for Discussion, and Academic and Skill Requirements for the Practice of Safety. ... 

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