Background Math for the Board of Certified Safety Professionals' Safety Certification Examinations

Math is an important part of everyday life and an integral part of the skills necessary to become certified in the safety profession. Many who pursue certification have long since completed their college math courses and have not actively pursued the math skills they once had. Background Math provides the basics necessary to successfully negotiate the math included on the certification exams, as well as a handy primer for those who already have their credentials. Topics include calculator use, strategies for examinations and hierarchy for operations, fractions, exponents, roots and logarithms and antilogs, systems of measurement, applied algebra, geometry, and more. Also includes a section on abbreviations and symbols used. Recommended by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals for candidates preparing to take the examinations for the Certified Safety Professional designation.

Glenn Young, CSP, is a consultant who specializes in quantitative and semi-quantitative risk analysis, including layers of protection analysis (LOPA) and event-tree analysis, in addition to system safety instrumentation services. He is also the lead editor of Applied Mathematics for the Safety Professional.