u/Beneficial-Dish-6521

What certs do they like? What’s the hours like? How would you describe it?

Love the field. IH is what I imagined scientists did as a kid. I love keeping people safe, and while I do a lot of that at my current job as a ehs specialist, I’d like to get the best cert in the game but feel like its out of reach due to not having a engineering degree, and having only a 3.3 gpa for my unfergrad

If anyone has advice, I’d love to hear it

Just thought I’d share a bit of my journey. bachelors in geology kinda fell into safety on accident but I love it. Work in civil qa at the moment with larger than normal safety responsibilities. Just passed my chst and planning to shift to a safety specialist role at the same company after my paternity leave.

I expressed interest in getting my cih and getting more involved with atmosphere testing in confined spaces, and my company agreed to let me take part in this work. It is my opinion that construction safety will move into a mandatory csp for all manager roles and for higher paying jobs (director, regional) cih will be heavily sought after.

Is this a common line of thought? Anybody else in the construction or utility safety worlds done this before?

I do not like construction. Hardly any work life balance and I’d rather be with my wife and newborn son. I have asp and 2 years construction experience and a bs in enviro science, I’d like something with regular hours, any advice is appreciated

BLS says ehs is booming, 10-12 percent growth, but if that what everyone is seeing? I see a couple new jobs a week and I’m not sure if that is as gang busters as the stats say.

For people recently hired how long did it take you? What industry is hiring in your area? How do you feel about the future of safety?

I’ve only ever worked construction, but I wonder what manufacturing, government, bio, and mining is like!

Share your stories plz!

Passed it. Honestly harder than I thought. Pretty vague questions and hardly any formulas provided. Took 4 hours.

Thank you to this community for sharing your knowledge and experience, it helped me immensely.

Took all 1300 pocket prep questions and averaged a 87 with all domains above 75. Took exam core practice tests and got 83 on both.

I’d happily accept any advice on what to do to be the most prepared.

All is welcome.

I’ve heard they provide them, or they don’t, also that bcsp will mix up units, just wanting to get an idea.

Basically my job was just involving temporary water infrastructure at an airport construction project and making sure leaks or spills didn’t mess up the infrastructure or create hazards for the public. I’d spend the whole day explaining water use rules, inspecting the hoses and sources, looking for leaks or people being careless, and helping route the hoses away from critical infrastructure. I logged and filled out incident reports when big spills happened, so to me it seemed just like any other safety coordinator job (in my limited experience). I said 80% of my duties were safety related and on the application and I was honest. AI said because of my limited scope of work it’s unlikely to be accepted, so I don’t feel great.

If they reject me it’s 160$ down the drain so that sucks but whatever I guess.

Anyone ever been in this situation?

Just wanting to get more understanding about the biggest sources/industried of ih jobs.

Thanks to advice from this sub I’m now a front man on the air monitoring program for my construction safety job. I also do noise dosimetry too so I can get my cih requirements filled.

It seems like such niche field and nobody I talk to about it really knows what it is.

I just want to know how others got into the field, when they did, and how they explain it to their friends and family.

I know it’s not really important but just for fun how would you classify ehs and safety?

I have a bs in geology and asp. Hoping to get into a space where I can start working towards my cih. I’m worried not having an engineering degree will hurt my chances, figured I’d feel around.

I’ve seen a lot of people say that pocket prep was different and the questions looked a lot different. Can anyone elaborate on how different they look? And in what ways?

Hello all,

I have almost finished up my graduate certificate from Murray state in industrial hygiene, I also have a bs in geology from CU Boulder.

I’ve been working at a large construction site as a ehs engineer, mostly doing scaffolding work, public health analysis, crane oversight, things of that nature.

I realized in order to qualify for cih I need ih experience that’s 50% of my duties, id like to get started on it now

I love ehs, I do construction safety and it’s been decent for me. Love how much the ehs industry is growing and the stability of the job, also at times is even kinda exciting!

I hate being seen as a narc or enemy when I’m just trying to keep people safe, and from my older colleagues I’ve heard a lot of people want to leave the field. Most of the people I know want into sales positions or more Foreman types.

For those of you that left, where’d you go? Why?

Reading through the Yates book and doing pocket prep. On thr mock exams I’m getting like upper 80’s without really trying, it’s all process of elimination mostly.

But when I read through the yates book I see all of these equations and chemistry, stuff I haven’t seen since like EM and gen chem 2,

Also the fourth edition is riddled with typos and errors, I know Yates is a respected member of the ehs industry but the typos make reading these high level concepts extremely difficult

My question is how similiar to pocket prep is the asp? How much math and chemistry is on it? (Even like niosh lifting equations or pel, twa, stuff like that). Is it necessary to remember the periodic table?

I have no idea what to expect! Any advice is appreciated.