Safety Fundamentals Examinations

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. 

For the Safety Fundamentals examination, it is assumed that the candidate has no safety job experience, and tests are subject matter based. For the Comprehensive examination, it is assumed that the candidate has at least four years of experience, and the test presents problems that are based on work content. 

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

The intent here is to make a review of responsibiUty categories and knowledge fields. The skill descriptions will not be shown. (For a listing of the skill descriptions, you can go to www.bcsp.org and locate Appendix B. Safety Fundamentals and Comprehensive Examination Blueprints in the downloadables.)... 

A recognition title of an individual awarded by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) based on the individual s knowledge and experience as demonstrated to the board by the individual s application documentation and an examination based on safety fundamentals and/or comprehensive practice. Knowledge is demonstrated by educational degree accepted by the board and experience by demonstrated acceptable professional safety practice. Certified Safety Professional and CSP are registered certification marks awarded to BCSP by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. See also Board of Certified Safety Professionals. 

Detonation waves are an important class of combustion phenomena, due both to the potential safety hazards which they represent and to the insights into fundamental combustion processes which they provide. Gaseous detonations have been examined for many years, in both experimental and theoretical studies. More recently, computer modeling studies of detonation waves have begun to appear. The chemical kinetics submodels have been considered to be the weakest part of existing detonation models. However, recent development of comprehensive kinetic reaction mechanisms for the oxidation of many practical fuels (1,2) has changed this situation significantly. 

It seems best, even for the introductory scope of this chapter, that before approaching a more specific discussion of the fundamentals and the practice of thermochemical process safety, the presentation of a broad perspective be attempted. Hence Fig. 20, in which the field is viewed from a sufficiently high vantage and that the reader is urged to examine in earnest before going further. 

The Human Factors analysts needed an approach and a tool to help them in providing a template for the interview process of a Task analysis with the ability to structure the interview phase in order to highlight and examine the deviations from standard practice. These deviations are fundamental to understanding what can and does go wrong in the field and should be an integral part of any safety critical task representation. A graphical representation of the procedure map linked to the template including ... 

This chapter presents the fundamental principles of probabiUty theory and briefly examines the use of statistical analysis in the practice of system safety. The information discussed here should provide the reader with a very basic understanding of these concepts, which, by some accounts, is essential to the overall understanding of the system safety discipline. It should be noted that it is not within the scope of this Basic Guide to System Safety to provide aU there is to know regarding probability theory and statistical analysis. However, a certain level of understanding is essential and will therefore be discussed here. 

The importance of the Functional Safety was underlined with the safety standard lEC 61508 which deals with Functional Safety of electrical/ electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems (lEC 2011). The innovation of this fundamental standard consists of the probabilistic examination of the Functional Safety with quantitative parameters. It is a universal standard, which is applicable in every industry sector. One aim of the lEC 61508 is that the standard should facilitate the development of application sector standards. Until today several derivates have been developed and transferred to different industry sectors. 

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