{"id":944131,"date":"2026-10-24T05:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T05:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/944131\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T05:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T05:32:13","slug":"canadian-safety-summit-2026-finds-one-fracture-line-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/944131\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Safety Summit 2026 finds one fracture line everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Masotti, chair of the Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals (BCRSP), laid out the numbers behind that problem. The BCRSP counts a little over 6,000 Canadian Registered Safety Professionals (CRSP) nationally and roughly 700 to 800 Canadian Registered Safety Technicians (CRST), a newer designation that has grown faster since gaining ISO 17024 certification in 2019. He outlined three priorities: market outreach to employers and schools, micro-credentials in areas like artificial intelligence, and a possible broader membership role. Title protection, which would legally restrict who can call themselves a safety professional, is furthest along in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and the Atlantic provinces, though changes in provincial government keep resetting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesafetymag.com\/ca\/topics\/leadership-and-culture\/why-title-protection-will-strengthen-health-and-safety-sector\/417249\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a conversation that has been building for several years<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Larry Masotti, chair of the Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals (BCRSP), laid out the numbers behind that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[43409,49,48,323201,5588,44],"class_list":["post-944131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-43409","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-safety-summit","tag-conference","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}