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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR
Most of us have benefited in our safety and health careers by having an individual act as our mentor. Let’s face it, even those of us who have graduated from college with a safety and health degree greatly benefited by having a mentor show us how to apply the theories we studied. Mentoring is a tool that can be used to nurture and grow people in the safety and health profession.
As a mentor, you are an individual who possesses the experience to help guide another individual’s development. This guidance is not done for personal gain but rather to advance the safety and health profession. Such mentoring can be anything from encouraging a peer or colleague to apply for the Certified Safety and Health Manager (CSHM) exam up to helping them prepare to pass the exam.
Achieving certification as a CSHM can be a difficult task. Acting as a mentor to help other safety and health professionals advance their careers through certification can be a great personal reward from the satisfaction one gains from helping someone else succeed. Encouraging or assisting fellow safety and health professionals to pursue certification as a means to advancing their careers contributes to the professionalism of the safety and health field.
A mentor has knowledge and experience that they can share with the person being mentored. I encourage and challenge each and every one of you to mentor someone to become a CSHM.
As always, I will be happy to field any of your questions or concerns by e-mail at rosenberg.jan "at" dol.gov.
by Jan Rosenberg |
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