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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62549</law_id><section_number>40.1-140</section_number><catch_line>Prohibited actions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="40.1">Labor and Employment</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="9">Industrial Hygiene and Safety Profession Title Protection Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> No person shall use in conjunction with his name the letters or words &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Industrial Hygienist in Training</span>,&#x201D; &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">IHIT</span>,&#x201D; &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Certified Associate Industrial Hygienist</span>,&#x201D; &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">CAIH</span>,&#x201D; &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Certified Industrial Hygienist</span>,&#x201D; &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">CIH</span>,&#x201D; or a variation of those words, or represent to the public that he is certified as such, unless he possesses the applicable certification issued by the <span class="dictionary">American Board of Industrial Hygiene</span>. <a id="paragraph-228103" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/40.1-140/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> No person shall use in conjunction with his name the letters or words &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Associate Safety Professional</span>,&#x201D; &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">ASP</span>,&#x201D; &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Certified Safety Professional</span>,&#x201D; &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">CSP</span>,&#x201D; or a variation of those words, or represent to the public that he is certified as such, unless he possesses the applicable certification issued by the <span class="dictionary">Board of <span class="dictionary">Certified Safety Professionals</span></span>. <a id="paragraph-228104" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/40.1-140/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> No person shall use in conjunction with his name the letters or words &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Occupational Health and Safety Technologist</span>,&#x201D; &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">OHST</span>,&#x201D; &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Construction Health and Safety Technologist</span>,&#x201D; &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">CHST</span>,&#x201D; or variation of those words, or represent to the public that he is certified as such, unless he possesses the applicable certification issued by the <span class="dictionary">American Board of Industrial Hygiene</span> and the <span class="dictionary">Board of <span class="dictionary">Certified Safety Professionals</span></span>. <a id="paragraph-228105" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/40.1-140/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> No person shall represent to the public that he is an <span class="dictionary">Industrial Hygienist in Training</span>, <span class="dictionary">Certified Associate Industrial Hygienist</span>, <span class="dictionary">Certified Industrial Hygienist</span>, <span class="dictionary">Associate Safety Professional</span>, <span class="dictionary">Certified Safety Professional</span>, <span class="dictionary">Construction Health and Safety Technologist</span>, or <span class="dictionary">Occupational Health and Safety Technologist</span> unless he has been certified as such by the <span class="dictionary">ABIH</span>, <span class="dictionary">BCSP</span>, or both, as applicable, and such certification has not lapsed or been revoked. <a id="paragraph-228106" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/40.1-140/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2001, c. 742.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
