Group Fitness Instructor

Category - Certifications

In a society overburdened by regulation, a common complaint is that certification and licensure standards are erected by professionals in order to restrict others from entering the workforce as competitors. This is not supposed to be so. Instead, which of the following BEST expresses the primary purpose of certification and licensure regulations?
  1. Protection of the government from liability
  2. Protection of the public from harm
  3. Standardization of “threshold to enter” requirements for the industry
  4. Standardization of educational standards
Explanation
Answer: B - The primary purpose of certification and licensure regulations is to protect the public from the harm that may arise from an incompetent or substandard professional working in the field. Such standards attempt to do this by regulating the thresholds to enter a profession. Some of the more common requirements include a standardized level of formal education, certification, testing and on-the-job training of skills.
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