There are unethical people in the safety and health field and their actions will impact you. This is the message I recently presented to a group of students in the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) chapter at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
To demonstrate my point I had one of the students read an advertisement in that day's USA Today newspaper. An ad in the paper stated that a bachelor's degree could be bought for $178. I went on to explain that there were hundreds, maybe thousands, of bogus degrees and certifications in the safety and health field. IUP students would spend four years of their life and many thousands of dollars to earn a safety and health education, and then compete for jobs with unethical people who falsify or embellish their credentials.