Message from the President of the Board
Joaquin M. Diaz, CIH, CSP, OHST, CHST
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I always enjoy this time of year. The dichotomy of reflecting on the year while also looking ahead to the future often strikes me. We can review our accomplishments and look ahead to new beginnings where we can achieve new things and resolve our shortcomings. Safety, health, and environmental (SH&E) professionals know our job is never complete, and continuing to learn and advance is how we survive. Your passion is the driving force behind what we do at BCSP. Professional certification is the catalyst for the SH&E practitioner to continue learning and progressing in the advancement of safety.
BCSP and the BCSP Foundation will start the new year with several notable and exciting projects and events. I hope you’re ready for a big year from BCSP! A few things to look forward to in 2022 are the Global Learning Summit, a low-cost, virtual professional development event; SHIFT, a complimentary academic journal and best practices guide; the BCSP Foundation Virtual Career Fair; an updated and more user-friendly version of the BCSP website, and much more! Stay tuned for more exciting announcements throughout the year.
While many of us enjoy the holiday season, this can be a particularly troubling time for those struggling with mental health issues. In a survey conducted by the National Alliance of Mental Illness, 64 percent of people with mental illness surveyed said the holiday season makes their condition worse. It is crucial to reach out to family, friends, coworkers, and those you think may be struggling with their mental health. The pandemic introduced new challenges and opportunities to address mental health in the workplace. Our evolving professional skills need to include mental health awareness and program development to identify stressors impacting employees. Having conversations about mental health doesn’t cost anything. A small gesture could significantly impact someone struggling with mental health issues.
As 2021 comes to an end, so does my tenure as BCSP Board President. I want to thank my fellow Board members, the BCSP staff, and most importantly, you, the SH&E professional. I can speak for the entire organization when I say you inspire us every day to be better and do better. Small steps can create colossal change, and while the year may be ending, we must look ahead to new beginnings.
I wish you all a great end to the year, happy holidays, and a joyous new year.
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Message from the BCSP CEO
Christy Uden, CAE, IOM
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As 2021 comes to an end, I am tremendously thankful to the BCSP Board Members that volunteer their time, knowledge, and leadership to advance the SH&E profession and future of BCSP. Their dedication to BCSP, and the SH&E industry at large, cannot be understated.
I especially want to thank and recognize Joaquin Diaz, President, and Mario Varela, Past President, for their service and leadership at such a critical time of change and opportunity these past two years. Their genuine caring helped us soar to new heights and lean into one another, creating a connectedness in a time of adversity.
I also want to thank you, the SH&E professional. The work you do continues to expand in importance and global significance. There is a greater understanding of the critical impact you make. While this may be a hectic time of year for many, I hope you find time to reflect and be proud of what you have accomplished. We salute you!
Wishing you a safe and healthy holiday season and a Happy New Year.
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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
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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
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BCSP Welcomes New Board Officers, Members |
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The BCSP Board of Directors has been selected to guide the organization in 2022.
We welcome new Board Members Daniel G. Hopwood, MPH, CSP, SMS, ARM, and Mary Hjorth, SPHR, SHRM-SCP.
In 2022, Leslie Stockel, CSP, SMS will serve as Board President; Bruce K. Lyon, CSP, SMS, P.E., ARM, CHMM will serve as Vice President; Joaquin M. Diaz will serve as Past President; and V. Raymond Ferrara, CFP will continue to serve as Treasurer. These individuals will work together to serve our certificants in the upcoming year.
We thank Mario A. Varela, CSP, ASP whose time on the Board will conclude at the end of this year.
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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.
*To ensure impartiality, BCSP utilizes subject-matter experts for the development of the examCORE program and products who are independent from the certification examination development process.
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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®.
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Share Your Safety Stories with Us |
We want to tell your safety story.
Whether it's a personal story of how you became involved with the safety profession, or a proud company safety moment, we want to hear from you!
If you have an interesting safety story to share, please contact safetystories@bcsp.org and a member of our team will reach out to you.
Your story could be featured on the BCSP social media channels, a promotional video, or many other avenues.
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A Sit Down with Sunbelt Rentals' Executive Vice President |
Anthony Miller, CSP is the Executive Vice President of Sunbelt Rentals, Inc. & Ashtead Group—a rental organization that rents heavy civil equipment including general construction equipment, industrial tools, pumps, power generation, climate control and HVAC, shoring solutions, etc. and has upwards of 15,000 employees with more than 1,025 locations in North America.
Anthony sat down with us to discuss his journey to safety, why he and Sunbelt Rentals have such a strong commitment to protecting employees, and why professional certification—particularly, in the case of Sunbelt Rentals—BCSP’s Safety Trained Supervisor (STS) and Safety Trained Supervisor Construction (STSC) certifications, play an important role in developing and maintaining a healthy safety corporate culture.
BCSP: Why did you decide to become a safety professional, and why is safety important to you?
Anthony: I joined the safety department at Murray State University and started on my undergraduate degree. While I was doing an internship at an electrical co-op, a lineman was electrocuted, and I was part of the rescue — pulling that individual out of the bucket and performing CPR. Afterward, I was also responsible for the root-cause analysis and the investigation with OSHA. I was an intern and that was all they had from a safety perspective, so I saw the benefits of having a safety professional in an organization.
BCSP: It makes me think, my son just started driving this year…
Anthony: Oh man. Yeah. That’s the thing, your son, his behaviors will change when he has to lock it up [the brakes] a couple of times to keep from hitting someone. That’s going to change his behavior. But how do you change behavior without having that exposure?
That's one of the things that we've done here recently: identifying exposures and talking about things like failing safely. For example, you wear this seat belt for a reason, because when the piece of equipment comes off the trailer, it keeps you inside the piece of equipment. You failed, but you failed safely. We should celebrate that. It's kind of putting things on its ear a little bit, but it's been beneficial to us.
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Enhance Your Career with BCSP and Our GLS Affiliates |
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On May 10-12, 2022, the Board of Certified Safety Professionals’ (BCSP) Global Learning Summit (GLS) will harness the strengths of virtual learning to provide high-quality professional development opportunities at a low cost to professionals engaged with safety around the world.
Making this possible are our GLS Affiliates, the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), ASSP Kuwait, Board for Global EHS Credentialing (BGC), BCSP Middle East and Africa, Columbia Southern University (CSU), International System Safety Society (ISSS), Safeopedia, Voluntary Protection Programs Participants' Association (VPPPA), and YellowBird.
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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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Subscribe to our eNewsletters!
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BCSP offers unique eNewsletters:
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Join Us for Our Third Annual Virtual Career Fair |
The Virtual Career Fair is a unique opportunity for employers to interact with and recruit BCSP-credentialed candidates.
If you have career opportunities or internships in the occupational health and safety field, we would like to invite your organization to sponsor and host a booth at our Virtual Career Fair.
Benefits of sponsoring the Virtual Career Fair include:
- An excellent opportunity to find candidates in an online environment with the credentials you need to advance your safety culture.
- Provides free access to hours of live and recorded professional education for all attendees.
- A significant portion of your low-cost registration is tax-deductible.
Click the button below to sponsor the Virtual Career Fair. Together, we can create a safer workforce.
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Watch the 2021 Awards of Excellence Ceremony |
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The Awards of Excellence are BCSP's highest honor. Bestowed to those that display excellence in the safety, health, and environmental (SH&E) industry, it is a celebration of those who have moved the industry forward.
We invite you to watch the BCSP Awards of Excellence 2021 ceremony below and join us in celebrating the accomplishments of the hardworking individuals that comprised the AoE recipients this year.
Submissions for the 2022 Awards of Excellence will open on January 3, 2022. Stay tuned for more information about the submission process!
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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.
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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.
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BCSP Foundation Board Member Receives NSC's Highest Honor |
During the 2021 National Safety Conference Congress & Expo, seven individuals were honored with the Distinguished Service to Safety Award—the National Safety Council’s highest honor awarded to safety professionals recognizing their outstanding contributions to the field of safety.
BCSP and the BCSP Foundation are honored to have one recipient, Tony Militello, P.E., CSP, CQE serving as the Vice-Chair of the BCSP Foundation Board of Directors.
Militello serves as the EHS Director for the Boeing Commercial Airplanes 737 Program, Delivery Operations, and Quality. In that role, he is responsible for workplace safety and environmental compliance and performance, including 737 MAX return to delivery, commercial flight lines, and paint and storage operations. He completed a 25-year civil service career, most recently serving as the Director, Occupational Safety and Health, and strategic advisor on the staff of the Secretary of the Navy.
Militello holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park and a Master of Public Administration from American University. He is a Director of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers Board of Directors and a Professional Engineer, Certified Safety Professional, and Certified Quality Engineer.
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Submit Your Manuscript to SHIFT,
Move Safety Forward
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In the fall of 2021, we were pleased to send you a preview of the new peer-reviewed publication, SHIFT: Global EHS Research to Practice, launched by the BCSP Foundation and BCSP. We are happy to announce the introductory edition is available, and we are now accepting manuscripts for the inaugural edition set for publication in the first quarter of 2022!
We are committed to removing barriers to access by providing a free subscription to SHIFT, allowing essential content to be widely available to our community. Already we’ve had overwhelming interest, with over 1,500 subscribers representing 28 countries subscribed within weeks of launching. As the subscriber community continues to expand, we want to ensure we deliver actionable content across the platform.
As an individual dedicated to fostering an environment that supports research and innovative solutions, we want to make sure you, and fellow researchers, have the opportunity to submit material for publication.
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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!
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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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An Update to Our Core Values |
At BCSP, our mission and vision remain unchanged: to create a safer world through safety, health, and environmental (SH&E) leadership by inspiring and developing leaders in SH&E practice through globally accredited certification; enhancing careers, advancing the profession, protecting people.
As we enter a new year, we realized our core values needed to better reflect our future goals as an organization and encompass the growth we have seen over the years.
Below are our updated core values, designed to create a culture of respect and create a framework through which we can better serve you.
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Be respectful: We recognize that our differences make us who we are. We respect freedom of opinions and ideas to learn from one another.
Create a positive culture: We share the responsibility to create a safeguard of acceptance, fairness, caring, equality, and invite new traditions into the workplace.
Serve as leaders: We are committed to being role models for others. We treat others with dignity, engage with one another, and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Protect others: We observe any mistreatment, bias, and demeaning manners and take action. We ensure that everyone has the necessary resources and training to foster a diverse and safe environment.
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