The Board was organized in 1969 as a peer certification agent with its primary function to certify safety practitioners as safety professionals. Administer certification examinations. Issue certificates of qualification to those having met the Board criteria and successfully passed its examinations. The BCSP Board of Directors includes 13 professionals from a cross-section of the safety profession and the public. Safety professionals may use the CSP title if they meet the requirements to achieve and retain the certification.
Certification is a two-step process involving an associate level and succeeding professional level.
The Certified Safety Professional is an individual who has successfully completed the Comprehensive Practice Examination and has met and continues to meet all the requirements established by the Board, and is authorized to use the Certified Safety Professional title or the CSP designation. Pass the Comprehensive Practice Examination. Details of preparing and applying for the CSP may be found in the Certified Safety Professional Candidate-Handbook .