Being a BCSP credential holder means being part of something bigger than your career. You’re part of a community that is committed to sharing knowledge and creating opportunities, and your investment in this community helps move EHS forward in ways you might not always see.
Beyond the value your certification provides to you personally, your financial investment in earning and maintaining your credential helps fund programs, resources, and initiatives that strengthen the profession as a whole. From maintaining strong credentials to expanding access to education, research, and resources, you help make it all possible.
Your Credential Advances EHS
Your BCSP credential represents a commitment to excellence, and maintaining that standard requires significant work behind the scenes. Since 1969, BCSP has awarded more than 150,000 credentials, and your investment supports the staff, technology, and processes that keep those credentials rigorous, secure, accessible, and valuable. This is achieved through:
- Exam Development and revalidation: All BCSP exams are created through an extensive process involving you, the credential holder, from identifying the topics covered to writing the questions, and determining the appropriate passing score to ensure only qualified candidates earn certification.
- Accreditation: Maintaining accreditation through the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) helps ensure BCSP credentials continue to meet recognized standards for quality and integrity.
- Credential Maintenance: Ongoing systems and processes support recertification, recordkeeping, and the integrity of BCSP credentials.
- Customer Service and My Profile: Dedicated staff and digital tools help credential holders manage their certifications and get assistance when they need it.
- Technology and Resources: Continued investment in technology keeps BCSP’s systems secure, reliable, and accessible for candidates and credential holders to use.
- Infrastructure: Behind-the-scenes systems and operational resources keep BCSP’s certification processes running efficiently and securely.
- Dedicated Staff: BCSP’s staff supports every stage of the certification process, from exam development and credential maintenance to customer service and marketing.
⇒Where Do You Come In?
The fees associated with applying for and maintaining a BCSP credential help support the people, technology, and processes required to maintain the quality and security of your BCSP credentials. That Gold Standard we’re always talking about—you play a role in making it possible.
You're Helping Build the Next Generation of Safety Professionals
A strong safety profession starts with a strong pipeline of future safety professionals. BCSP supports students and academic programs, creating opportunities for the next generation to seek meaningful careers in safety.
⇒Where Do You Come In?
Your commitment to credentialing funds the scholarships and grants that provide students with more opportunities to discover and prepare for careers in EHS. That $5,000 scholarship an EHS student needed to pay for their final semester? You made that happen.
You’re Making EHS Knowledge More Accessible
A stronger safety profession depends on access to credible research, knowledge, and meaningful opportunities for professional development. BCSP helps make these resources more accessible by providing high-quality educational content, research, and learning opportunities at little or no cost to the EHS community.
- SHIFT: BCSP’s peer-reviewed research journal, offering free access to transformative EHS research and best practices.
- The HUB: A free, constantly growing online library of webinars, guides, podcasts, and eBooks covering the issues that matter most to EHS professionals.
- GLS: The Global Learning Summit (GLS) is a biennial virtual event that brings the safety community together for three days of learning, networking, and connection. At just $25, it’s one of the most accessible and affordable conferences in the industry.
- R&I Summit: BCSP’s biennial Research & Innovation (R&I) Summit creates a space for safety leaders, practitioners, and students to exchange ideas, explore emerging research, and help move EHS forward.
- BCSP Webinars: Free webinars throughout the year connect EHS professionals with timely insights and expertise on a wide range of safety topics.
- Podcasts: Safety on Location and My Big Safety Challenge bring listeners candid conversations with safety leaders about career experiences, leadership, and the challenges shaping the profession.
⇒Where Do You Come In?
Your investment helps create, publish, and share resources that put credible EHS knowledge in the hands of professionals, often at little or no cost. That free eBook on The Hub you just read—your credential helped make it possible. That podcast episode? You played a part!
You're Building a Stronger Safety Community
The safety profession is strongest when professionals have opportunities to connect and support one another. BCSP helps foster that sense of community through mentorship, networking, and outreach.
- Mentor Connect: A free program connecting early-career safety professionals with experienced leaders for guidance, support, and professional growth.
- BCSP Ambassador Program: Dedicated professionals represent BCSP at industry events, helping strengthen connections across the EHS community.
- Digital Badge: Free digital badges provide credential holders an easy, verifiable way to showcase their BCSP certification or designation and communicate its value.
- Credential Holder Directory: A free, searchable directory makes it easy to verify BCSP credentials and connect with credentialed safety professionals.
- Emerging Professionals Committee: Gives early-career professionals a voice in the profession and opportunities to shape the future of EHS.
- Awards of Excellence and Lifetime Achievement Award: Each year, BCSP recognizes outstanding credential holders with these awards. Awards are broadcast virtually to the world each spring.
- Certification Champions: Recognizes organizations that invest in professional certification and support a highly qualified EHS workforce.
- Career Center: A dedicated career platform connects certified safety practitioners with job opportunities, while providing tools like interview training and offer analysis to support their career growth.
- Financial Relief During Crises: When major crises affect credential holders, BCSP has often paused recertification fees and other relevant charges, helping professionals maintain their credentials during challenging circumstances.
⇒Where Do You Come In?
Your support creates opportunities for safety professionals to connect, learn from one another, and bring more people into the profession. That Ambassador promoting the EHS profession at a high school job fair? That’s because of you. A mentee connecting with a positive mentor on BCSP’s Mentor Connect? That’s all you.
How Do You Play a Part in Advancing EHS?
When you earn and maintain a BCSP credential, you’re investing in more than your own career. You’re helping strengthen the profession you’re a part of.
There’s a lot that goes into maintaining the quality and integrity of a BCSP credential. Your investment supports much of the work that happens behind the scenes, from bringing BCSP-certified SMEs together to securely develop exam content, to protecting certificant data and maintaining the security of BCSP credentials.
You play a part in making it all happen. That’s the unseen impact of your credential.