Survey - What does a Safety Professional do to make a living?

Answer 1

Safety and health professionals have wide ranging responsibilities in performing their professional functions, the major elements of which are identified in a paper entitled "The Scope of Functions of the Safety Professional," which is available from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP). Safety and health professionals must remain technically current in loss prevention techniques, as well as legislative and regulatory requirements and safety and heath consensus standards. Functional activities of safety and health professionals include both risk assessment and control of hazards.

A central concept of the safety and health profession is that management remains responsible for implementation of safety and health measures to control losses. Safety and health professionals serve in an advisory capacity to the organization and provide guidance and technical expertise, within the parameters of the professions' ethics, to assist in meeting these responsibilities.

Accordingly, the following are the principal responsibilities for the safety and health professional:

Assist corporate and line management in assessing the effectiveness of the unit safety and health programs and providing recommendations for maintaining/improving their effectiveness;
Provide guidance to line management and employees so that they understand the safety and health programs and how to implement them;
Assist line management with the identification and evaluation of high risk hazards and development of measures for their control;
Provide staff safety and health engineering services;
Maintain a working knowledge and maintain federal, state and local relationships with appropriate regulatory agencies;
Develop and maintain a high level of professional competence in the safety and health field;
Represent the organization in safety and health interests outside their operations within the community and by active participation in professional societies and specific trade associations and groups.
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Answer 2

On a construction job, it is usually one of the older workers who has been around for a while and watches the other workers to make sure they are safe on the job.

If the worker committing the violation is sited by him and still does the job in an unsafe fashion, the worker can be fired from the job.

This violation is also reported back to the hall where he works out of.

He is there for the workers protection.

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There are many other facets to the term Safety Professional too.

Answer 3

Create and maintain programs to develope safe work habits in the working environment; train employees on safety rules and regulations, conduct investigations in the event of an accident, do safety inspections to try and discover any unsafe work practices or condition before an accident or injury occurs.. make sure that the company is OSHA compliant and in some companies, it may include supervision of the medical department and coordination of the worker's compensation cases.... just for starters.

Answer 4

All I know, is in the construction industry most companies have a person who is a safety professional. They observe, train workers, and cut injuries, lost days due to injuries etc.

By having such an expert, the insurance or loss managers give large discounts to cooperationg business. Plus they have fewer injuries and lost down times, pay less in settlements, pay less for Workmans Compensation and increase worker morale. No one wants to see a friend injured.

I think other industries have similar programs.

Answer 5

Safety things!

Answer 6

create safety programs and policies for potentially dangerous workplaces (like in the manufacturing industry for example), ensure all governmental policies are being followed - maybe?

Answer 7

they do stuff involving safety

Answer 8

In which of many industries???

Answer 9

they go to different places to check , every thing is safe

Answer 10

Crash Dumby???