- Address:
- PO Box 2811
Bellingham, WA 98227-2811
- Phone:
- 888.856.4685
- Website:
- http://www.bcpe.org/
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The BCPE was incorporated as an independent nonprofit organization in July 1990. The development of ergonomics certification, however, dates back to the mid-1980s when committees of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the International Ergonomics Association, the Department of Defense, NATO, and the National Academy of Science/National Research Council performed several reviews of job/task analyses to identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of human factors/ergonomics practitioners. These domains were later categorized by the Ergonomics Abstracts (London: Taylor & Francis, ISSN 0046-2446, 1993) schema and evaluated for validity and reliability against the most widely used textbooks and handbooks in human factors/ergonomics degree programs.
The BCPE utilized these earlier job/task analyses reviews to develop the criteria and procedures for BCPE certification, and in 1992, initiated certification for the Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE) and Certified Human Factors Professional (CHFP) credentials. Credentialing for Associate Ergonomics Professionals (AEP) and Associate Human Factors Professionals (AHFP) followed in 1995, and in 1998, certification as a Certified Ergonomics Associate (CEA) was established, in recognition of the expanding scope at which ergonomics is being practiced.
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