Second Quarter 2023

Message from the President of the Board

Bruce K. Lyon, CSP, SMS, P.E., ARM, CHMM

There is unquestionable value in collaboration. By working together, sharing our experiences, and encouraging one another to excel, we push the boundaries of what is possible and move our profession forward.

With that in mind, we eagerly anticipate the third Research and Innovation Summit, hosted by BCSP and the BCSP Foundation next month in Indianapolis. With sessions centered around the latest developments and cutting-edge ideas, the R&I Summit is a "can't miss" event for forward-thinking safety, health, and environmental (SH&E) professionals. If you haven't already registered, it's not too late to join us. You will better yourself by attending, and the event will be better because of your presence.

Likewise, we have announced plans for the second Global Learning Summit to be held in May 2024. GLS is truly a one-of-a-kind opportunity in terms of quality and affordability with three days of virtual professional development and networking opportunities, all for only $25. More than 4,500 attendees from all around the world joined us for the first GLS in 2022. Mark your calendars now to be part of the 2024 edition.

Like all professions, ours continues to transform to meet the challenges of our time. New technologies, new systems, new practices. We are always striving to be better and to achieve more because we know our work has a direct impact on people’s lives.

The recent ASSP Safety23 Conference and Expo in San Antonio was a glowing reminder of the passion and talent that exist within our profession. It was especially rewarding to meet so many of our BCSP credential holders and to see you proudly displaying your credentials. Your achievements serve as an example to many who aspire to the level of professionalism you have earned through certification.

The future of SH&E practice is unquestionably bright, and we shape that future together. Thank you for all you do. Have a wonderful summer.

BCSP Board of Directors

President

Bruce K. Lyon, CSP, SMS, P.E., ARM, CHMM

Vice President

Ashok Garlapati, CSP, QEP, CFIOSH, FASSP

Treasurer

Jay R. Harf, PhD, CSP

Past President

Leslie Stockel, PhD, CSP, SMS

CEO, Secretary

Christy Uden, CAE, IOM

Directors

Teresa A. Cole, CSP

Mary Hjorth, SPHR, SHRM-SCP

Bruce D. Hollcroft, CSP, ARM, CHMM

Daniel G. Hopwood, MPH, CSP, SMS, ARM

Patricia A. Kagerer, CSP, ARM, CPCU, CRIS

Regina McMichael, CSP, CIT

Donald A. Robinson, PhD, CSP, P.E., ARM-E

Mike Sutton, CFRE, CFRM

Recognizing Growing Certification Champions

BCSP's Certification Champions program honors organizations that invest in their safety cultures and employees through certification. Champions are recognized by level based on the number of credentials held within their organizations—Sapphire (5-24), Ruby (25-49), Emerald (50-99), and Diamond (100+)—and earn a wide array of benefits (PDF). Learn how BCSP can help you grow your safety culture by visiting the Workplace Safety and Certification page at BCSP.ORG.

BCSP is proud to recognize the following organizations that have attained a new level in the Certification Champions program for the first time this quarter (as of June 5).

Diamond (100+)

EMCOR Group, Inc.

IEA - Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives

Ruby (25-49)

Grainger

Granite Construction

HazTek Inc.

Jacobs Engineering

JE Dunn Construction

Morley Builders

Nan, Inc.

Orion Group Holdings, Inc.

Sapphire (5-24)

ASRC Energy Services

Bergelectric

Bernards

Bernhard MCC

The Conco Companies

ECC

The Korte Company

Premier Interior Development

Remedial Construction Services

Ross Group

Sevenson Environmental Services

Shell Oil Products US

View All BCSP Certification Champions

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Safety on Location

BCSP Delves into Podcast World with New Series Going Behind the Scenes of Safety

BCSP's new podcast series Safety on Location is available now.

Have you ever considered the importance of safety at one of the world's largest production studios? With all those deadlines to meet, budgets to keep, and constant hazards on set, how can safe practices help everyone achieve their goals?

In Episode 1 of the series, BCSP CEO Christy Uden goes behind the scenes with Paramount Pictures Vice President of Environmental Health and Safety Jason Townsell to learn how Paramount is taking a holistic approach to safety.

In each episode of Safety on Location, Uden will visit inspiring safety professionals to learn why they do what they do, how they build their safety cultures, and what safety looks like in their unique settings.

Safety is everywhere. It is a core responsibility for every person in every organization. And we can all learn a thing or two from one another.

Check out the Safety on Location homepage or listen through Spotify, Pandora, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or other podcasting platforms.

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BCSP Recognizes 2023 Award of Excellence & Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients

BCSP presented its annual Awards of Excellence (AoE) and Lifetime Achievement Award in a ceremony that aired in late May on YouTube Premiere. You can watch the ceremony below.

Dennis Burks, CSP, P.E., a veteran of more than 40 years in the occupational safety and health profession and a former assistant vice president for HNTB Companies, was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, BCSP’s highest honor.

This year’s AoE recipients were Bala Siva Srikanth Adivi, CSP, CFIOSH, CSP Award of Excellence, and Raghuvaran Chakkravarthy, SMS, CHST, STSC, GSP, CHST Award of Excellence.

Adivi, a 23-year professional and a BCSP Ambassador, serves as a TPL Specialist I for the Kuwait Oil Company, while Chakkravarthy, a 15-year veteran of the profession, serves as safety director for the federal division at Gilbane Building Company.

"These distinguished professionals exemplify the vast reach of safety across all fields and the influential role BCSP credential holders play in shaping the world around them. They have dedicated their careers to making their organizations and their industries safer, and they have given back to the profession through their service. For each of them, safety truly is more than a job; it is a calling."

— Christy Uden, BCSP CEO

BCSP Credential Holder Directory

The Credential Holder Directory offers a database for verifying individuals' BCSP certification status.

The directory is searchable by name, company, location, and more, featuring digital badges and credential information for each credential held.

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.

Through BCSP's collaboration with the Financial Planning Association® (FPA®), certificants further qualify for a 20% discount on first-year financial planning services with CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional members.

Click here for more info!

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 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.

Confessions of a Safety Manager

How to Improve Your Safety Culture

Excerpt from BCSP.ORG guest blog by:

Erika Winning, CSP, CIT, CHMM

As I’ve met other safety professionals throughout the course of my career, I tend to think a lot of us have lost our way, forgetting the importance of building trust and relationships in our work. So often I hear safety professionals quote regulations and rules like they’re reading from a sacred text.

Not that knowing the rules is unimportant, but I can confidently say I’ve never been thanked for citing them to someone as part of making my case as to why a condition or behavior needed to change. I have, however, been thanked when I’ve successfully applied the regulations in a way that makes someone’s work easier and safer.

A mentor shared something with me as I was learning how to manage safety in the workplace. Successfully managing safety comes down to questions of aim, reason, and incentive.

Aim – What do you need me to do?
Reason – Why do you need me to do it
Incentive – What’s in it for me? (This is perhaps the most elusive.)

In safety, I’ve seen so many of us walk away from these basics in favor of gimmicks or “flavors of the day.” I think it’s time for us to return to the basics and focus on addressing our co-workers’ essential questions.

If you can answer these questions, you have a head start on building a strong safety initiative and, in turn, improving safety culture.

Read Full Blog at BCSP.ORG

Reserve Your Spot for the Third Research & Innovation Summit Next Month

The BCSP Foundation's biennial Research & Innovation Summit is coming up Aug. 7-10 at the JW Marriott in Indianapolis.

The R&I Summit is a forum for leaders and organizations with an eye toward shaping the future of the SH&E profession. Share research and ideas centered on making our world safer and better.

This year’s R&I Summit features keynote speakers from Boeing, Grainger, Jacobs, Dale Carnegie, and SC Johnson.

Topics include Environment, Social & Governance; Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Mental Health in Safety; Psychological Safety; and Supply Chain Worker Safety.

Haven't participated before? Check out highlights from the 2021 R&I Summit to see what it's all about.

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Prep for Your Exam!

BCSP offers exam training, both online and in-person, through BCSP examCORE*. Visit examCORE.ORG for more information.

Online trainings include: CSP, ASP + CSP Connect, SMS, ASP, OHST, CHST, STS, STSC, and CIT. In-person training is currently available for the STS and STSC with more to come.

*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.

Assess Your Knowledge

BCSP also offers Self-Assessments to help you determine your knowledge level in each subject area of an exam. Utilize the 100-question Self-Assessments to evaluate your strengths, weaknesses, and test-taking pace and plan your studying accordingly.

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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Find Unauthorized Use on the Credential Directory

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, technical reports, and videos.

These resources can be found on our Presentations and Outreach webpage.

Become a BCSP Webinar Presenter

Do you have wisdom or best practices to share? Valuable insights to reveal? BCSP Webinars wants you as a presenter.

To express interest in presenting, please view and complete the Webinar Presenter Interest Form. List your areas of expertise and submit the form for consideration.

If you have further questions, please contact webinars@bcsp.org.

ESG and the Safety Pro

What is this framework and how can you leverage it?

You likely already know it stands for environmental, social, and governance. So what exactly does that mean? It’s a new paradigm through which companies are being asked to view their priorities. It’s a different way of thinking about business, a more human-centered approach as opposed to one focused solely on the bottom line.

Companies are being encouraged to more thoroughly evaluate their responsibilities in these areas, some of which are already familiar to safety and health professionals. Through this new lens, they are asking questions like:

Environmental (E): Are we taking care of our natural resources? What are we doing to reduce emissions and prevent spills? How are we limiting physical waste and excess water usage
Social (S): Are we properly caring for our employees, customers, and anyone for whom we hold a duty of care? Are we treating our people equitably? Are we engaged with our community?
Governance (G): Do we manage our company in an ethical manner? Are we operating transparently? Do we have safeguards in place to prevent corruption?

By nature, at least a portion of ESG responsibilities often fall upon the safety professional. In theory, it may sound like a lot. In reality, safety professionals have been focused on many of these items for a long time.

“Safety and health is in ESG. We don’t have to ask to sit at any tables. We are there. We are the people side of sustainability, the social side of sustainability.”

— Kathy Seabrook, CSP, CFIOSH, EurOSHM, FASSP, Founder of Global Solutions Inc.

Read Full Article at BCSP.ORG

Mark Your Calendars for GLS 2024

Back by popular demand, BCSP has announced the return of the Global Learning Summit (GLS). The three-day event, focused on delivering quality, affordability, and accessibility, is scheduled for May 7-9, 2024.

BCSP will present high-level content through a virtual format from some of the top safety, health, and environmental (SH&E) practitioners in the industry. Attendees will have access to more than 100 hours of sessions, all for only $25 USD.

GLS is your opportunity to learn new skills, network with colleagues around the world, and earn valuable recertification points. The inaugural GLS in 2022 attracted more than 4,500 attendees from 56 countries and all 50 United States, creating more than 1 million user engagements.

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.

Mark Your Calendars to Participate in OSHA's Annual Safe + Sound Week

This year’s campaign is set for August 7-13 and serves as an encouragement for organizations to recognize their safety successes, to start a new safety program, or to analyze an existing one.

As BCSP certificants, we know you are on the front lines and have many success stories to celebrate. We encourage you to use #SafeAndSoundAtWork to share those stories on social media.

We also know workplace challenges are ever-evolving, and potential new hazards are constantly developing. Safety plans and procedures should always be adaptable to face new threats, but Safe + Sound Week offers a dedicated week as a reminder to keep those plans up to date.

For more information on participating in Safe + Sound Week, visit OSHA.gov/safeandsoundweek.