International Professional Safety Practice: A Comparison with U.S. Practice

摘要

In 2002, the European Network of Safety & Health Practitioner Organizations (ENSHPO) embarked on collection of data about the tasks that safety professionals perform in practice. Professor Andrew R. Hale of the Safety Science Group at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands led the development of a survey instrument and the compilation of results. To date, safety organizations in 13 European countries have participated in the study. Those with sufficient data for analysis included Austria, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. In addition, organizations from Australia and Singapore have also participated. All of these study results to date have been compiled by ENSHPO and can be found on their website: www.enshpo.org. The information provided in this paper includes results from the United States for the same survey instrument. This study offers the first North American data. The data in this report resulted from information collected by the Board of Certified Safety Professional (BCSP) and provided by individuals holding the Certified Safety Professional (CSP) certification.