HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                  Bill No. HB 4439

    Amendment No. 10 (for drafter's use only)

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11  The Committee on Community Affairs offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 88, between lines 17-18

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17         Section 51.  Section 501.937, Florida Statutes, is

18  created to read:

19         501.937  Industrial hygienists and safety

20  professionals; use of professional titles; failure to

21  comply.--

22         (1)  Any person representing himself or herself as a

23  "safety professional" or "industrial hygienist" must

24  accurately disclose his or her credentials.

25         (2)  A person may not represent himself or herself as a

26  "certified safety professional," "associate safety

27  professional," "certified occupational health and safety

28  technologist," "industrial hygienist in training," or

29  "certified industrial hygienist" unless he or she holds a

30  current valid certificate in the field of safety or industrial

31  hygiene from either the American Board of Industrial Hygiene

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                                                  Bill No. HB 4439

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 1  or the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, or unless the

 2  Department of Business and Professional Regulation has, upon

 3  request, examined another certification program and has

 4  formally concluded that the certification standards of that

 5  certification program are substantially equivalent to the

 6  standards for certificates issued by those organizations; nor

 7  may the person mislead or deceive anyone by the unauthorized

 8  use of any certification mark that has been awarded by the

 9  United States Patent and Trademark Office.

10         (3)(a)  A "safety professional" is a person having a

11  baccalaureate degree in safety, engineering, chemistry,

12  physics, or a closely related physical or biological science

13  who has acquired competency in the field of safety. The

14  studies and training necessary to acquire such competency

15  should have been sufficient in all of the above cognate

16  sciences to provide the abilities to anticipate, identify, and

17  evaluate hazardous conditions and practices; to develop hazard

18  control designs, methods, procedures, and programs; to

19  implement, administer, and advise others on hazard controls

20  and hazard control programs; and to measure, audit, and

21  evaluate the effectiveness of hazard controls and hazard

22  control programs.

23         (b)  An "industrial hygienist" is a person having a

24  baccalaureate degree in engineering, chemistry, physics, or a

25  closely related physical or biological science who has

26  acquired competency in the field of industrial hygiene. The

27  studies and training necessary to acquire such competency

28  should have been sufficient in all of the above cognate

29  sciences to provide the abilities to anticipate and recognize

30  the environmental factors and stresses associated with work

31  and work operations and to understand their effects on people

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 1  and their well-being; to evaluate, on the basis of training

 2  and experience and with the aid of quantitative measurement

 3  techniques, the magnitude of these factors and stresses in

 4  terms of ability to impair human health and well-being; and to

 5  prescribe methods to eliminate, control, or reduce such

 6  factors and stresses when necessary to alleviate their

 7  effects.

 8         (4)  Failure to comply with this section constitutes a

 9  deceptive and unfair trade practice.

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13  And the title is amended as follows:

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17         after "practice;"

18         creating s. 501.937, F.S.; providing

19         requirements for use of professional titles by

20         industrial hygienists and safety professionals;

21         providing definitions; providing that violation

22         of such requirements is a deceptive and unfair

23         trade practice;

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