Associate Safety Professional designation

Associate Safety Professional—Designation given to someone who has successfully completed the first half of the examination processes for CSP. 

ASP Abbreviation for Associate Safety Professional, a designation devised by the American Society of Safety Engineers. 

BCSP is an examination and certifying body. Candidates who meet the requirements for and pass a Safety Fundamentals Examination receive an Associate Safety Professional (ASP) designation. Those who meet the requirements for and pass the Comprehensive Practice Examination receive the Certified Safety Professional (CSP) designation. 

ASP (Associate Safety Professional ) See CSP above See CSP above X (CSP fundamentals) X ( Temporary designation - must continue on to CSP within certain timeframe) X (Application and renewal fee) www.bcsp. org... 

Haz-Map is an occupational health database designed for health and safety professionals and for consumers seeking information about the health effects of exposure to chemicals at work. Haz-Map links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms. Chemicals and biological agents in Haz-Map are linked to industrial processes and other activities such as hobbies. Occupational diseases and their symptoms are associated with hazardous job tasks and possible exposure to hazardous agents. Information from textbooks, journal articles, and electronic databases such as HSDB (described above) is classified and summarized to create this database. 

A nonprofit organization organized in 1962 that is dedicated to supporting the safety professional in the application of Systems Engineering and Systems Management to the process of hazard, safety, and risk analysis to identify, assess, and control associated hazards while designing or modifying systems, products, or services. 

The Certified Safety Professional Program of the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) in Savoy, Illinois, is designed to recognize the qualifications and experience of safety professionals. Applicants must apply to BCSP and be approved to sit for examinations. Requirements include a college degree (bachelor s in any field or associate s in a safety-related field) and professional employment in which the primary function is safety... 

Other safety professionals have recognized that literature on lean may not include the outcome of accidents as waste to be eliminated. Also, they have encountered situations where safety concepts and lean applications were in conflict, with the results being far from satisfactory. In that respect consider the comments made in a publication by the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) of ANSI B11.TR7 in 2007. Its title is ANSI Technical Report for Machines—Design for Safety and Lean Manufacturing. 

The most prominent survey at the time was the Minnesota Safety Perception Survey. This survey had been developed in the 1980s by a team that included safety professionals from the Association of American Railroads and scientists from the Army s Aberdeen Proving Ground. Dan Petersen served as a consultant to the team, which was led by Chuck Bailey (Bailey and Petersen 1989 Bailey 1997). Bailey s team designed and validated the Minnesota survey, which had subsequently been administered to over 100,000 anployees in a number of companies. Bailey s database included survey results from six chemical companies, giving us a good opportunity for benchmarking. Consequently, we chose that survey. Chuck Bailey made a presentation to our team to explain how the survey had been constructed and how it could be used as a tool for improvement. 

He was an engineering department head at Crawford Russel, an adjunct professor at Yale University, and a course director at the Center for Professional Advancement. In 1995 he was invited to teach as a Fulbright Scholar. He was a book reviewer for American Scientist, received the Control Hall of Fame Award in 2001 and the Life Time Achievement Award of ISA in 2005. Today, he is the president of the consulting firm Liptak Associates P.C. His work includes the design and optimization of industrial processes, energy conservation, pollution prevention, and safety-related projects. 

URS Corporation s inaugural Safety Fest of the Pacific Coast is a free, informative seminar designed to enhance workplace safety, and the first such event to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area. URS, in partnership with OSHA and the California Occupational Safety Health Administration (Cal-OSHA), is hosting the event, along with public agencies, companies and professional associations. The event will be held Feb. 27-March 2, 2012, at U.S. Army Camp Parks, Dublin Blvd. and Camp Parks Blvd, Dublin,... 

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