ASSP Safety Management Certificate Program

ASSP's Certificate in Safety Management coursework spans a wide variety of topics — ranging from leadership skills and ethics; to developing budgets and controlling workers’ compensation costs; to designing and adjusting safety systems and programs so they meet the needs of employees and businesses.

Requirements

Mandatory Courses (5.6 CEUs)

• Safety Management I
• Safety Management II
  
• Corporate Safety Management
  

Elective Courses (1.4 CEUs)

Fourteen hours of electives are needed to complete the CEU requirement for the certificate. Please check back soon to view our elective course offerings.

Risk Assessment

Required Seminar for Certificate in Risk Management

Risk assessment is a dynamic process that will enable you to proactively manage workplace risks.  When a risk assessment is performed with the highest level of skill, you will identify potential hazards and implement preventive measures that would otherwise not have been apparent in any other way.  This three-day seminar will cover three main areas of a risk assessment: hazard identification, risk analysis, and risk evaluation and treatment.

Specifically, you will learn about:

• Hazard identification techniques
• Accumulation and review of data
• Risk assessment and analysis
• Methods and data sources
• Qualitative vs. semi-quantitative vs. quantitative
• Creating and using a matrix
• Synthesize mitigation options
• Hierarchy of controls

Safety Management I

Safety Management Certificate Program

Investing in safety management can provide numerous benefits for your organization, like building brand value and goodwill, reducing the costs of accidents and injuries, improving productivity, and building a more competent and engaged workforce.

Through examples, case studies and other resources, you will learn the fundamental elements and techniques for implementing and managing an effective safety management system at your organization.

Specifically, you will learn how to:

• Establish accountability for safety efforts
• Write effective policy statements and performance standards
• Promote safety to various levels
• Describe the moral, financial and legal responsibilities of today’s safety professional
• Establish a budget for a safety management effort

Safety Management II

Safety Management Certificate Program

Build on what you learn in Safety Management I to take steps to implement a safety management system within your organization and practice techniques to measure its effectiveness. This course is also ideal if you are seeking to strengthen an existing safety management system.

Learning Objectives:

• Review various types of safety management systems
• Consider various metrics and determine how they may benefit your organization
• Improve safety performance through effective leadership, communication, training, and ethical behavior

Corporate Safety Management

Safety Management Certificate Program

With an in-person instruction, learn the techniques to positively affect Corporate Safety, and prepare for the Safety Management Certificate. Assess the performance of a safety management system. Consider various metrics and determine how they may benefit your organization. Improve safety performance through effective leadership, communication, training and ethical behavior.

Learning Objectives:

• Analysis to support business objectives
• Contemporary organizational cultures
• Influential safety cultures
• Corporate reporting relationships
• Safety performance measurement
• Implementation and management of ergonomics
• Managing major losses
• Business acumen and negotiation skills