Third Quarter 2021
Message from the President of the Board
Joaquin M. Diaz, CIH, CSP, OHST, CHST
Luck is a powerful phenomenon. It can be used to justify a fortuitous outcome that we may not have expected or wanted. But too often we define luck as chance and assign it as the defining force of positive outcomes in our lives. What is missing is the hard work, experience, dedication, and education that results in the positive "luck" we have in our lives.

Luck does not prevent injury and illness in workplaces. Minimizing exposures to injuries and illness is the byproduct of you, the safety professional, and your years of education and training, on-the-job experience, and unrelenting effort to protect your workforce. A near miss of falling debris or a fall prevented by a properly constructed railing may seem lucky, but it is the culmination of the efforts put forth by everyone in the workplace to remain safe. You and other professionals in injury prevention deserve recognition for your efforts.

To recognize you and your colleagues we present a low-cost professional development opportunity readily available to all. The BCSP Global Learning Summit will remove traditional conference barriers associated with cost and geography. It is a virtual professional development event available to everyone, anywhere. The Global Learning Summit is a complement to other professional conferences and seminars held by other organizations. It offers another perspective in safety to align with our mission of advancing the profession.

The BCSP Foundation also has exciting events coming soon. If you were not able to attend the Research & Innovation Summit in person, the Foundation is hosting a virtual experience that will provide a way for everyone to experience the best of the live event from the comfort of home. The Foundation is also unveiling the introductory issue of their academic journal, SHIFT: Global EHS Research to Practice. SHIFT aims to turn research into practice, providing a Best Practices Guide to be used in the field.

We host these events and provide these resources to advance the profession and provide the tools and information safety professionals need to create a safe and healthy workplace. I believe you will find that when equipped with the proper tools, and with a commitment to improvement, you’ll have all the luck in the world.
BCSP Board of Directors
President
Joaquin M. Diaz, CSP, OHST, CHST
Vice President
Leslie Stockel, CSP, SMS
Treasurer
V. Raymond Ferrara, CFP
Past President
Mario A. Varela, CSP, ASP
Directors
Teresa A. Cole, CSP
Ashok Garlapati, CSP
Jay R. Harf, CSP
Bruce D. Hollcroft, CSP
Patricia A. Kagerer, CSP
Bruce K. Lyon, CSP, SMS
Regina McMichael, CSP, CIT
Donald A. Robinson, CSP
BCSP's Global Learning Summit: Advancing Worker Safety and Enhancing Careers
BCSP's Global Learning Summit (GLS) is a high-quality, low-cost, virtual professional development event created for all with safety, health, and environmental (SH&E) responsibilities.

We are removing traditional barriers associated with high cost and geographic location—delivering a venue for anyone with SH&E responsibilities to enhance their career and reduce organizational risk.

Visit BCSPGLS.COM for more information.

Global Learning Summit Details

  • Date: May 10-12, 2022
  • Cost: $25 per person
  • Location: Virtually, on your device or computer
  • Content: 100+ hours from the world's top SH&E leaders
  • Who: Everyone is encouraged to join

*BCSP certificants that attend will be eligible for recertification points*
Study From the Source!
BCSP offers exam training through BCSP examCORE. Trainings include CSP, ASP + CSP Connect, SMS, ASP, OHST, CHST, STS, STSC, and CIT. For more information, visit examCORE.ORG.
Visit BCSP's Affinity Products Page
As a BCSP credential holder, you have access to exclusive products! Design custom BCSP Apparel in the BCSP store. Get unique pins and rings. Certificants further qualify for a 20% discount on first year financial planning services with CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional members of the Financial Planning Association®.
BCSP’s Toolkit for Advancing the Profession
Banner displays and literature are a great way to promote BCSP certifications and earn recertification credit. A display is available to any certificant for use at chapter meetings, regional or local conferences, career fairs, and other safety-related seminars, meetings, and presentations. If you would like to reserve a display or request literature, fill out a Banner Display Request.
BCSP Chief Strategy Officer Appointed to NACOSH
On July 31, 2021, the U.S. Secretary of Labor, Martin J. Walsh, appointed J.A. Rodriguez Jr., CSP, ASP, BCSP's Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), to the prestigious 12-member National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH) as a management representative for a two-year term.

Rodriguez recently served as VPPPA's Director-at-Large for seven years and as the organization's member-elected Chair of the Board for another two. Rodriguez has held the Certified Safety Professional® (CSP®) for over 13 years and has a strong belief in the connection between the development and improvement of safety professionals' careers and the improvement of safety.

Members of NACOSH provide the Secretary and HHS Secretary substantive input on workplace safety and health issues. They formulate ideas on reducing worker deaths, injuries, and illnesses and provide feedback on OSHA and HHS initiatives to improve worker safety and health.

The Secretary and HHS Secretary may consult with and seek advice and recommendations from NACOSH on Agency priorities, including:

  • Leadership in the national dialogue on worker safety and health; 
  • Strong, fair, and effective enforcement of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards; 
  • Expanded compliance assistance; 
  • Guidance and research, including research needs and priorities; 
  • Expanded partnerships and voluntary programs; 
  • Regulatory matters; 
  • and other activities to help reduce work-related deaths, injuries, and illnesses.
  • The Secretary and HHS Secretary may also consult with and seek advice and recommendations from NACOSH on new areas and emerging issues involving occupational safety and health. NACOSH's duties are solely advisory and consultative.

For more information on NACOSH, visit www.osha.gov/advisorycommittee/nacosh.
BCSP Announces Awards of Excellence and Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients
The Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) is honored to recognize the 2021 recipients of the BCSP Awards of Excellence (AoE), the organization's most prestigious awards, and the Lifetime Achievement Award, BCSP's highest honor.

The 2021 recipients are:
  • James “Skipper” Kendrick, CSP, CIT, FASSP: Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Sanjay Jaiswal, CSP, CIH, CIT, SMS: CSP Award of Excellence
  • Rasim Qureshi, P.Eng (Alberta), CSP, ASP, CFPS, CCPSC: ASP Award of Excellence
  • David R. Jones, SMS, CHST, STSC: CHST Award of Excellence
  • Clint Wolfley, CSP, CHST, STSC: STSC Award of Excellence

When asked what drove his dedication to safety, BCSP Lifetime Achievement Award recipient James Kendrick credited inspiration from his two primary visions: that, in order to achieve excellent safety performance, we must “make it personal” and “It is not about how safe you are, it’s all about how safe you could be.”

The contributions these certificants have made to the safety, health, and environmental (SH&E) profession have been both substantial and consequential, and we are honored to have them as BCSP certificants.

Please join us in honoring these outstanding leaders during the AoE ceremony to be held virtually on Oct. 28, 2021, at 5 p.m. (Eastern Time). It will be broadcast live on Youtube Premiere. You may sign up to receive a link to the ceremony by clicking here.
Looking For a New Career or Your Next Superstar Employee?
The BCSP Career Center connects job seekers with prospective employers in the safety, health, and environmental industry at no cost!

Posting open positions for companies looking to hire individuals who hold our credentials is also free. This site is your direct route to qualified individuals!
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BCSP, BCSP Foundation, and OSHA Renew Alliance
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP), and the BCSP Foundation have renewed their collaborative relationship to foster stronger safety and health practices and programs, improving American workplaces.

Originally signed February 1, 2018, the renewed OSHA, BCSP, and BCSP Foundation Alliance will continue with an emphasis on developing effective training, educational webinars, professional safety and health certifications, safety and health programs, and fall protection.

BCSP and the Foundation will share information on OSHA's goals and initiatives and invite participation in those. The signatories will collaborate on, share, and disseminate safety and health information such as occupational safety and health laws, standards, and the rights and responsibilities of workers and employers. BCSP credential holders are encouraged to build relationships with OSHA’s Regional and Area Offices to address health and safety issues relevant to their respective industries.

In addition to sharing information, BCSP and the Foundation will provide opportunities to participate in the rulemaking process with OSHA and work with the administration in the creation of guidance documents promoting the advancement of safety and health programs and the role of safety and health practitioners.
Experience the BCSP Foundation's Research & Innovation Summit Virtually
Did you miss out on the BCSP Foundation's Research & Innovation Summit? We have you covered!

We invite you to experience
the best of the live event from
the comfort of your own home.

The R&I Virtual Summit is an
opportunity to learn from the
safety, health, and
environmental (SH&E)
professionals that are moving
the practice forward.

Take advantage of this opportunity, and join us as we celebrate the work that moves safety forward.

R&I Virtual Summit Details

  • Tickets: Sales begin October 11
  • Duration: 6 months' access to Summit begins Nov. 1
  • Content: Over 15 hours of virtual instruction
  • Continuing Education: 1.5 CEUs can be earned
Unauthorized Use of Our Credentials
BCSP pursues cases of individuals claiming to hold our credentials without permission. We pursue those cases in which there is clear evidence of the unauthorized use and the individual has a clear responsibility, control, or knowledge of the use. Evidence may be a business card, resume, letter, website, or other publication.
Present on Behalf of BCSP!
Presentations on safety certification can be done for recertification credit! BCSP has many resources available for certificants to use during presentations, including pre-made PowerPoints, role delineation studies and technical reports, and videos.

These resources can be found on our Presentations and Outreach webpage.
BCSP Releases Annual Report
The BCSP 2020 Annual Report has been released. In 2020, we were all faced with unprecedented challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Those challenges emphasized the importance of what we do as safety, health, and environmental (SH&E) practitioners. It emphasized why recognition of safety practice, and support of safety practitioners’ development and goals, are central to BCSP.

To ensure we continue supporting you in new and exciting ways, we set organizational goals each year focused on uplifting safety practitioners and building the profession. In 2020, despite the extra challenges of quarantine, remote work, and closures of testing centers, we remained steadfast in our mission of supporting you, the safety professional, through accomplishing our goals.

More information about each of these accomplishments is included in the 2020 Annual Report.
SHIFT EHS Journal Launches
The first issue of SHIFT: Global EHS Research to Practice, the BCSP Foundation's new academic journal, will be released on Oct. 11.

SHIFT emerged from BCSP's and the BCSP Foundation’s shared commitment to drive necessary and powerful change in the environmental, health, and safety (EHS) industry. SHIFT strives to provide opportunities for voices to be heard; research to be cultivated, dispersed, and developed into action; and for communities to come together for meaningful engagement and partnership.

We can’t do it without you!

As a subscriber to SHIFT, you will receive unlimited access to two transformative EHS publications each year that will guide the industry on turning research into best practices. Your support powers the initiative to disseminate research, develop Best Practice Guides, and advance research and innovation.

Subscriptions to SHIFT are free. Be sure to visit SHIFTR2P.COM on Oct. 11 and subscribe!
Submit Your Original Research to SHIFT!
Have research or analyses that you would like to submit for review and possible publication in SHIFT?

Visit SHIFTR2P.COM on Oct. 11 and go to the submission portal.

It is encouraged to first read and review the Author Guidelines with submission requirements for your research.

Have questions? Contact us!
BCSP Exams Director Elected to ISSS Leadership
The International System Safety Society (ISSS) is pleased to announce its newly elected officers and directors. Congratulations to Pam Alte on becoming the new ISSS President. ISSS thanks Chuck Muniak for his service as Past President and Russ Mitchell for his years of service as the ISSS President.

This year, the ISSS membership elected its new Executive Vice President and Directors of Member Services, Publicity and Media, and Government and Intersociety Services. Newly elected Society officers and directors take office at the beginning of the Society's fiscal year, July 1, 2021. We welcome the following to their new leadership roles within the Society. We thank all the candidates for their dedication and willingness to serve.

Executive Vice President – David West, Board of Certified Safety Professionals 

Dave West, CSP, ASP, PE, CHMM is the Examinations Director at the Board of Certified Safety Professionals® (BCSP®). Dave has over 30 years of system safety experience, including the assurance of safety for military, aviation, nuclear, petrochemical, and space flight programs. He holds BCSP's Certified Safety Professional® (CSP®) and Associate Safety Professional® (ASP®) certifications and is a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, a Professional Engineer, and an ISSS Fellow.
Share Events With Us
Have an upcoming job fair, conference, or chapter meeting that you would like to share with readers? Would you like to invite a BCSP representative to attend an event? We would like to hear about it!

Submit information on upcoming events using our new Event Request Form.
Current Changes Index
Over the course of the year, a range of policy changes, procedure updates, and other modifications occur. We want to make everyone aware of these changes on a regular basis, as well as keep an archive of the announcements. 

Visit the Current Changes Index page on our website to find the most up-to-date policy and procedure information.
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Recognizing Achievements of BCSP Certificants
BCSP is proud to recognize the achievements of credential holders that have made strides and a commitment to advancing the safety profession.

International System Safety Society (ISSS) Award Recipients

  • Charles Muniak, PhD, CSP received the Professional Development Award, the organization's highest award.

  • Daniel G. Foley, CSP received the Engineer of the Year Award.

ASSP Awards and Honors

The following professionals were awarded Honor of Fellow, ASSP's most prestigious honor.

  • Carl W. Heinlein, CSP, OHST, CPEA, CSHM, ARM, FASSP
  • Michael W. Hayslip, CSP, PE, FASSP
  • Timothy R. Fisher, CSP, CHMM, ARM, CPEA, FASSP

Morgan M. Bliss, Ed.D., CSP, CIH received the William E. Tarrants Outstanding Safety Educator Award.

Kathy Seabrook, CSP, FIOSH, FASSP, EurOSHM received the Thomas F. Bresnahan Standards Medal.

A full list of ASSP Award recipients can be found here.

BCSP is proud of the accomplishments of all our credential holders. It is your representation out in the field that cultivates BCSP's reputation as a leader in the profession.