Advancing Your Professional Safety Practice (Trends) Asse04

7/29/2019 Advancing Your Professional Safety Practice (Trends) Asse04

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ADVANCING YOUR

PROFESSIONAL SAFETY PRACTICE

Roger L. Brauer, Ph.D., CSP, PE

Executive DirectorBoard of Certified Safety Professionals


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GOALS

Review Trends in Practice

Review Factors Affecting Pay

What Makes a Difference in a Career


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TRENDS IN PRACTICE


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TRENDS IN PRACTICE

Convergence of Safety, Health,

Environment and Ergonomics

Generalist vs. specialist

Source for this trend

Safety professionals dont just do safety

Specialized methods apply to general practice


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TRENDS IN PRACTICE

Consulting

1980s: Less than 7%

1990s: Doubled to about 15%

Recently: Slow continued growth


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TRENDS IN PRACTICE

Reasons for Safety

Morality

ComplianceCost

Business value

Link Safety to BusinessBottom lineBusiness metrics


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TRENDS IN PRACTICE

Pushing Safety Deeper into an Organization

Old:

Safety professional directed, taught, led, cheered Safety department: Focus for safety

New: Safety integral with business units, tied to metrics

Safety a part of business culture Safety leaders: managers, supervisors, workers

Safety Department: coordinator, special help


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TRENDS IN PRACTICE

OLD:

Work Execution

Identify & correcthazards

Conduct training

Direct

NEW:

Leadership

Train others to identify& correct hazards

Training requirements,

manage delivery, &

assess effectiveness Coordinate, assist


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TRENDS IN PRACTICE

Old: Bachelors degree or less

1980: 25% had less than a bachelors degree

New: Advanced degree is strong trend

2000

44% of CSPs had advanced degree

< 6% have less than a bachelors degree

2004

50% or greater with advanced degrees


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TRENDS IN PRACTICE

Quality in Credentials throughAccreditation

Academic Institutional accreditation

Program accreditation

Certification

Growth in designations (240 in SHE&E in U.S.) Few meet certification accreditation (~ 15)

(NCCA, CESB, ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024)


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SALARIES & PAY FACTORS


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SALARIES IN GENERAL

1998 ISHN 609 $46,000

1998 ASSE 977 $68,056

2000 BCSP 4,800 $75,291

2003 NSC 478 $64,665

2004 BCSP 106 $84,245


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SALARIES IN GENERAL

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10,00020,000

30,000

40,000

50,000

60,000

70,000

80,000

90,000

98 ISHN 98 ASSE 00 BCSP 03 NSC 04 BCSP


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SALARY FACTORS

Leadership (supervising other professionals)

Dual certification/licensure

Longevity

Age, years in profession, years certified

Education

Degree level and degree field


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SALARY FACTORS

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510

15

20

2530

35

40

Leadership Longevity CSP CSP+ Educ-Level Educ-Field


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WHAT MAKES A

DIFFERENCE IN A CAREER?


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CORE COMPETENCIES

The Core Competencies

(Functions, tasks, knowledge & skills)

ASSE: Scope and Functions of theProfessional Safety Position

CSP Job Analysis Study

CSP Examination Guide: Examination Blueprint BCSP Technical Report 2001-1

Other studies


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LEADERSHIP SKILLS

Technical path

Leadership path

Theories and principlesTechniques of leadership

Creating a vision

Guide, direct, mentor, coachShared leadership

Servant leadership


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COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Written

Verbal

Listening & understanding

Foreign language


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LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY

The New Tool Box

Visual media

Data capture and analysis

Data management

Data and information sharing/transfer

Training and training management Leap ahead technologies


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THINKING IN BUSINESS

TERMS Metrics

Global

By organizational unit

Leading vs trailing

Safety is not an add on

Convert to business jargon

Convert to business metrics


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VISIONING

Think With a Vision

Think Long Term (Where are you going?)

Act Short Term (How to get there)


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WEARING OTHERS SHOES

Understand others

Flexible roles

Changing work groups

Involve others

None of us alone is as smart as we are

collectively


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SUMMARY

Advancing Your Professional Safety Practice (Trends) Asse04

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