Professionalization in safety: A study of the professional context of a post master safety program’s alumni

Abstract

Our contribution to the ESREL conference will present the first results of a qualitative and quantitative study on the professionalization of alumni of a post master safety program. The post master Management of Industrial Risks has graduated 197 students since 2004.We addressed an online questionnaire to all the alumni, five in depth interviews will be realized with alumni and their work colleagues and a focus group discussion will be held.The online questionnaire will investigate their careers (company, position and wages) but also how safety is organized in their company, with whom they interact, what are their missions. For the job missions, we focus on their personal convictions, the importance given by their organization or company and the real time spent doing the job missions. We will also investigate the characteristics of their work conditions and what are, from their own point of view, the real contributions for safety in their organization. Finally, the knowledge and competencies they mobilize or want to mobilize doing their job will be assessed.Those findings intend to, firstly, dress a picture of the safety professional daily job, secondly, identify factors that shape the safety professional's role in the organization and, finally, elaborate a more adapted curriculum for the training and development of future safety professionals.

Professionalization in Safety: Creating Effective Learning Environments

“…The post master Management of Industrial Risks (MS MRI) from PSL University -Mines ParisTech, has grown in the last 14 years to be more and more professionalizing. A major guideline of MS MRI is to develop better education in risk management to bridge theoretical aspects to the professional real-life context (Van Wassenhove & Foussard, 2018). The case of Health, Safety, and Working Conditions Committee (CHSCT/CSE) is quite an educational challenge regarding on the one hand, the crucial position of safety professionals in such meetings and on the other hand, operational and legal consequences on companies' activities.…”