PRINTER FRIENDLYAdvance Your Safety Leadership Career!
Drive your workplace safety program to a new, more powerful level by earning your Advanced Safety Certificate (ASC). You'll be able to maximize your effectiveness as a safety manager and leader with knowledge of the best safety practices. The core courses in the ASC program give you a solid foundation of knowledge to meet all your safety challenges. Elective courses in this program allow you to acquire in-depth knowledge which can help you prepare for the Certified Safety Professional (CSP) exam.
Participants will learn:
- Field-tested, practical and efficient solutions to workplace safety and health issues
- Techniques for a balanced approach to safety management addressing administrative, technical and cultural elements
- Management skills to establish yourself as a problem-solver and a decision maker
- Knowing when, how and to whom you should delegate safety responsibilities
- Setting safety performance measures for your organization and employees
- Creating a management plan tailored to your organization's safety and health practices
- Assessing your organization's safety training needs to deliver performance-based training
- Designing a safety training program customized for your organization
The National Safety Council's Advanced Safety Certificate is earned by successfully completing Principles of Occupational Safety and Health, and 5.2 additional Continuing Educational Units (CEUs) from the following courses within a five-year period. (courses may be taken in any order)
Courses Needed to Receive the Advanced Safety Certificate
Principles of Occupational Safety and Health (required | 2.6 CEUs)
Four-Day Courses
- Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene (2.6 CEUs)
- Safety Management Techniques (2.6 CEUs)
- Safety Training Methods (3.0 CEUs)
One-Day Courses
- Ergonomics - Managing for Results (.65 CEUs)
- Incident Investigation: A Management Approach (.65 CEUs)
- Job Safety Analysis (.65 CEUs)
- Safety Inspections (.65 CEUs)
- Team Safety (.65 CEUs)
Each recipient receives a plaque certifying his or her completion of the Advanced Safety Certificate.
