OCCUPATIONAL Objectives HEALTH AND SAFETY PROFESSIONS
PUBH 3310 Occupational Health and Safety September 17, 2004 After this session, students should be familiar with the occupational safety and health professions, including:
Education requirements Professional certification Role
Salary and demographic information is offered for information only
Introduction
In the U.S., the occupational heath and safety professions began in the 1930's. These professions work together as a team to assure a safe and healthful workplace:
Engineering Industrial Hygiene Occupational Medicine Occupational Health Nursing Health Physics
Introduction
General features of occupational safety & health professions
Professional certification
Establishes credibility Certification is based on education, experience, and examination
Professional organizations
Journals Meetings, conferences, continuing education Member services
Code of Ethics
Safety Professional
Role:
Anticipate, identify and evaluate hazardous conditions and practices. Develop hazard control designs, methods, procedures and programs. Implement, administer and advise others on hazard controls and hazard control programs. Measure, audit and evaluate the effectiveness of hazard controls and hazard control programs.
Safety Professional
Role (cont.)
Duties
Accident prevention Training, motivation "Safety engineer"
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Safety Professional
Professional Certification
Board of Certified Safety Professionals, BCSP, http://www.bcsp.org/ Qualifications:
Appropriate AS or BS degree 4 years of professional safety experience (or more, depending on degree) Examination includes Safety Fundamentals and Comprehensive Practice
Safety Professional
Professional Certification
Certifications
Associate Safety Professional, ASP (interim certification) Certified Safety Professional, CSP
Over 17,000 have achieved CSP since 1969 Over 10,000 current CSP Educational level of current CSPs (BCSP data) None 2% (no higher education, just job experience) Associates 2% Bachelor's 50% Master's 41% Doctorate 3%
Safety Professional
Where do CSPs work?
Manufacturing Insurance Petrochemical Government Construction Utilities, Communications Transportation Other Industries Utah has 90 CSPs 19% 22% 15% 9% 5% 4% 2% 9%
Safety Professional
Gender:
Approximately 15% of CSPs are female
Salary:
$25 K - $40 K starting salary $50 K-$80 K mid career; $100 K+ Corporate positions CSP brings a premium of 15-20%
average $85,000 (BCSP)
Safety Professional
Professional organizations:
American Society of Safety Engineers, ASSE, http://www.asse.org
Local chapters
222 Utah members in 2004
Industrial Hygienist
Recognized discipline since the 1930's Known as "Occupational hygiene" in much of the world
"Hygiene" means "health" From Hygeia, the Greek goddess of health
Role:
Anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of health hazards
Professional Safety (journal)
Education:
Appropriate BS degree minimum
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Industrial Hygienist
Professional certification:
American Board of Industrial Hygiene, ABIH www.abih.org
Certified Industrial Hygienist, CIH
Exam + 5 years of work experience Number of active CIH = 6513 in 2003 More than 8000 certificates issued since 1960 61% of professionals are CIH (AIHA survey, 2003)
Industrial Hygienist
American Board of Industrial Hygiene, cont. CIH history
Industrial Hygienist In Training, IHIT, discontinued 2001 Associate Hygienist Industrial (AIH), new in 2001
For professionals having <50% IH responsibility
Industrial Hygienist
Educational level of current CIHs
Bachelors - 32% Masters - 55% Ph.D., etc. - 10%
Industrial Hygienist
Pay:
$35K - $40K Starting salary (or more) $60K - $80K Mid career (or more) $IOOK+ Corporate positions, consultants 2003 AIHA survey
$82 K average 61% have CIH
Gender:
23% of IH's are female (2003 AIHA survey)
Industrial Hygienist
Professional organizations:
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, ACGIH, www.acgih.org/
Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene (journal)
Occupation Health Nursing
Role:
Industrial clinics Occupational health and safety
American Industrial Hygiene Association, AIHA, http://www.aiha.org/
Local "sections", http://www.aiha.org/LocalSections/html/utah/index.htm AIHA Journal (technical), Synergist
Education:
RN first
Salary
$60 K for Certified OHN (2003)
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Occupation Health Nursing
Occupational Medicine Physician Role:
All occupational illnesses & injuries Medical surveillance, exam Workers compensation issues "Occ doc"
Professional Certification
American Board of Occupational Health Nursing, ABOHN, http://www.abohn.org/ Certified Occupational Health Nurse
RN Licensure Five years experience and 50 course hours of OH continuing education prior to certification Certified by examination
75% pass rate (2003)
Demand
10,000 physicians do some occupational medicine 1,500 - 1,800 Board-certified occupational medicine physicians are actually in practice National need - 5,000
Currently 6600 active COHNs (2003)
Bureau of Health Professions needs estimate 4,830 Institute of Medicine needs estimate - 3,100 - 5,500
Occupational Medicine Physician
Professional certification:
Certification by examination by American Board of Preventive Medicine, ABPM
http://www.abprevmed.org/
Occupational Medicine Physician
Professional organization:
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), http://www.acoem.org/
ACOEM repr...