Comprehensive Practice Examination

BCSP is an examination and certifying body. Candidates who pass a Safety Fundamentals Examination receive the Associate Safety Professional (ASP) title those who pass the Comprehensive Practice Examination receive the Certified Safety Professional (CSP) title. Also, BCSP gives specialty examinations in subjects such as system safety and ergonomics. 

Subject content for the Safety Fundamentals Examination and the Comprehensive Practice Examination will be the same, but the examinations differ greatly in what is tested. 

More emphasis is placed in both the Safety Fundamentals and the Comprehensive Practice examinations on information management and communications. 

It is assumed that applicants taking the BCSP Comprehensive Practice Examination have at least four years of safety work experience. This examination represents a great breadth of applied knowledge and skill. And, it is my opinion that it realistically relates to the professional practice of safety. 

Furthermore, I observed that the domains and responsibihties and the knowledge and skill categories for the Comprehensive Practice Examination given by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals defines the breadth of knowledge and skill required in appMed safety practice. 

The current Comprehensive Practice Examination Guide issued by BCSP, a sbcth edition, is dated April 2011. To give an indication of the breadth of responses that safety professionals gave in the polling exercise—a part of the validation process—one task description follows ... 

Comprehensive Practice Examination Guide, 6th ed. Champaign, IL Board of Certified Safety Professionals, April 2011. Also available at www.bcsp.org/ pdf/ASPCSP/BCSP CP ExamGuide.pdf. 

The Comprehensive Practice Examination Guide, Sixth Edition, issued by BCSP in April 2011... 

Keep in mind ABET s general requirements as the knowledge and skill a safety professional is expected to have to pass BCSPs Comprehensive Practice Examination are shown later in this chapter. They are more specific and a good fit with ABET s requirements. 

In the following discussion, some excerpts are taken directly from the Comprehensive Practice Examination Guide, for which broad permission is given by BCSP as long as The Board of Safety Professionals is the owner of the copyrighted material excerpted from this document credit is given. In the examination blueprints ... 

Each domain heading in this table is accompanied by a percentage label. This percentage represents the proportion of the actual Comprehensive Practice examination devoted to that domain. 

A review was made of the changes in knowledge and skill requirements that have taken place in the nearly 5 years between the issuance of the third edition of the CSP Examination Guide (August 2006) and the sixth edition of the Comprehensive Practice Examination Guide (April 2011). Domains in those publications differ, as follows. 

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 does this book contain a chapter on financial management basics, and what is it to accomplish Tlie idea for it originated in a study initiated by this author to identify emerging knowledge needs in the practice of safety. That study is supported by the frequent reference in the current issue of BCSPs Comprehensive Practice Examination Guide to such topics as finance, management science, budgets, and the like. 

Comprehensive Practice Examination Study Guide Background Math for the BCSP Exams CHMM and CIH Examination Study Guides on CD An ASSE Publication... 

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