Is it necessary to be a safety assessment specialist to work in safety assessment?

Safety assessors are now a profession listed in the **Occupational Directory, with the occupational code: X4-07-01-11. It belongs to the fourth category of professions: those in business and service industries. Category 7: Social service and residential life service workers. First sub-category: Social intermediary service personnel. Sub-category 11: Safety Assessment Specialists. Safety assessors are recognized by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor Security, and vocational skill assessments will be conducted in the future. Since the current regulations governing safety assessment agencies require that, when evaluating an agency’s qualifications, attention is paid to factors such as the number of safety assessors, their specialties, and their professional titles, agencies can only rely on safety assessors

Those who carry out the evaluation work need not be safety assessment specialists, but their names cannot appear on the report; only those with a safety assessment specialist certificate may be listed in the evaluation report. Of course, there are also requirements for the evaluation agencies; in addition to requirements for safety assessment personnel, a certain number of registered safety engineers are also required. The new safety assessor system was implemented in March 2008, and the transition was completed at the end of February this year; there is still no clear standard for how assessments will be conducted going forward. It will definitely get harder, especially advancing to a higher level of safety assessor – that’s more difficult, though it might be easier to get started.

Department of Planning and Science and Technology, State Administration of Work Safety, Planning Letter [2008] No. 10: “Letter on Matters Concerning the Organization of Professional Training for Those Engaged in Safety Assessment Activities and Their Transition to Becoming Safety Assessment Specialists.” It stipulates that professional training and skill assessments should be conducted for existing personnel engaged in safety assessment activities, with a gradual transition toward obtaining the qualification of safety assessment specialist; this transition period runs from March 2008 to March 2009. Other regulations require that safety assessment agencies carry out safety assessments, and the personnel involved are first considered as those engaged in safety assessment activities, and later become safety assessment specialists (of level 1, 2, or 3). Registration is not involved in this process – in other words, those engaged in safety assessment activities receive professional training and skill assessments carried out by the former labor department, similar to skill assessments for workers, while registration is handled by the personnel department. Interesting! ). Article 17 of the Provisions on the Administration of Registered Safety Engineers: The scope of practice for registered safety engineers includes: (1) Safety production management ； 　　(II) Safety production inspections ； 　　(III) Safety assessment or safety evaluation ； 　　(IV) Safety inspection and testing ； 　　(5) Technical consultation and services for work safety ； 　　(VI) Safety production education and training ； 　　(7) Other work safety technical services stipulated by laws and regulations. The text in white on a black background above states that the scope of practice for registered safety engineers includes safety assessment or security evaluation. Contradiction! ? There is only one way: having both certificates (Registered Safety Engineer and Safety Assessment Specialist). This post was last edited by wanmh on 2009-4-9 19:39.]

As a safety assessment intermediary, it is of course desirable for all staff to be registered safety assessors, but this increases the agency’s labor costs. Moreover, **only a certain percentage of the total number of people require intermediary agencies to have the qualification of registered safety assessment engineers. Therefore, recruitment agencies often hire only some individuals who possess the necessary qualifications; some of these people serve merely in an nominal capacity, with their qualification certificates simply kept on file, and they receive a certain amount of payment from the agency each year. The drafting of the report can be carried out by persons without the necessary qualifications, but the signature (including approval) must be provided by those who possess the appropriate qualifications.

A safety assessment specialist is a professional with the qualification to conduct safety assessments

Registered safety engineers can also engage in safety assessment work

It’s not necessarily a safety assessment specialist who conducts the evaluation, but the final report must be signed by one. In fact, many evaluation companies these days don’t even have a single assessment specialist working there; those specialists are merely named on the company’s roster to sign off on the reports

**What matters is whether the person who signed the report has the qualifications of a reviewer; no one really cares who actually prepared the report.

The origin of this issue is that the system of safety assessors existed first, followed by the system of certified safety professionals. **When establishing the safety assessment system, it was stipulated that assessment agencies must have a certain number of assessors. In the early years, assessments for these assessors were conducted through training and certification processes, making it easy to pass. Later, as there was an increasing need for a large number of professional technicians in safety work, the Certified Safety Professional exam was introduced. Registered safety engineers have a wide range of responsibilities, but they do not have the right to sign evaluation reports. **It is merely a personal speculation that grassroots safety work should be entrusted to registered safety engineers for management, with safety evaluators focusing solely on conducting evaluations.**

It is necessary to obtain the qualification of a safety assessment specialist

Without a certification as a safety assessment specialist, one can only work in support roles related to safety assessments. In other words, you can do various tasks, but you act in an “off-the-backstage” capacity, and your name cannot appear in the reports.

Take a look at Order No. 13 issued by the Safety Supervision Bureau – only safety assessment specialists are qualified to do this, and it’s essential that they sign the report. The authors of a report can be unqualified individuals, but it is necessary for it to be signed by qualified persons. The number of registered safety engineers who can hold senior professional titles in safety assessment agencies is limited to just that

It’s ideal to have both certificates (Registered Safety Engineer and Safety Assessment Specialist). :lol

You go foot soaking with your friends, and a group of people arrive for you to choose from; each one indicates their level as a foot massage therapist. One of them doesn’t have a certificate, but he tells you that his skills are excellent. Would you choose him to serve you?

Safety evaluators were originally known as registered safety assessment professionals; this certification was issued by the former **Work Safety Supervision Bureau. It was one of those certifications that were abolished by the State Council. Later, the General Administration, in conjunction with the former Ministry of Social Security, restructured this system and renamed such professionals as safety evaluators (divided into three levels). Because it was handled by the headquarters itself. Since 2002, nearly 20,000 people have held the certificate. So now, those who conduct evaluations only recognize it. Currently, in evaluation agencies, there is a phenomenon where those who conduct evaluations lack the necessary credentials, while those with such credentials do not carry out evaluations.

Engineers cannot sign their names, while evaluators can.