Professional Certificates

Basic Workplace Safety Certificate

Expand your knowledge and credibility in your field by completing the Basic Workplace Safety Certificate!

• If you have little or no previous safety and health experience.
  
• If you have full or part-time responsibility for employee safety and health, including supervisors, safety committee members and safety advisors.
• Those who have experience in safety and health but no formal training may find this a useful refresher.

This series of classes provides you with the basic tools you need to take to your workplace.

The Basic Workplace Safety Certificate can be earned by completing the following series of three one-day courses within a two-year period. Successful candidates will receive a wall plaque.

Intro to Occupational Safety
(Course 101)

(click title to register) If you are newly responsible for your company's safety and health program, a supervisor or a member of your safety committee, this course provides the basics of:

Safety Management: Management Commitment, Safety Committees, Regulatory Compliance, and Employee Involvement

Hazard Identification: Safety Inspections, Task Analysis, Training and Orientation

Ergonomics: Problem Identification, and Practical Approaches

Record keeping: OSHA 300 Logs and Form 301 and Accident/Incident Frequency Rates

Emergency Preparedness: Written Plans, Bloodborne Pathogens and Fire Safety Plan

Intro to Occupational Health
(Course 102)

(click title to register) This course reviews basic occupational health and industrial hygiene principles and covers three basic concepts: health hazard recognition, health hazard evaluation, and health hazard control.

Health Hazard Recognition: Overview of Hazard Comm-unication, Chemical Handling, Stress Management and Environmental Awareness

Health Hazard Evaluation: Applicable OSHA Standards, Overview of Industrial Hygiene, Monitoring, and How to Work with an Industrial Hygienist

Health Hazard Control: Overview of Control Methods, Personal Protective Equipment, and Compliance Training

 

Intro to Loss Control
(Course 103)

(click title to register) This course reviews loss control topics and covers the fundamentals of recognizing, evaluating and controlling those situations that initiate unintentional and unplanned losses.

Accident Cost Analysis: Direct and Indirect Costs

Workers’ Compensation: The System and How it Works

Accident Investigation: Investigation, Analysis and Cost

Electrical Safety: Conducting Electrical Inspections

Material Handling: Manual and Mechanized Handling

Fire Extinguishers: Classification and Control of Fires

Office Safety: Hazard Checklist for Offices

New Employee Orientation: Motivate New Employees

Machine Safeguarding: Point-of-Operation Safeguards

Lock-out/Tag-out: Essential Concepts and Procedures

Professional Credit
Each one-day course earns 5.5 Contact Credit Hours from the Colorado Safety Association.

Advanced Safety Certificate

Maximize your effectiveness as a safety manager and leader by earning the National Safety Council's Advanced Safety Certificate. This training is designed for full-time safety practitioners, safety committee members, safety coordinators, safety specialists, human resource managers, safety managers, loss control managers and operations managers.

Target the technical and management safety skills you want to develop, and put those skills to work taking your safety program to a new and more powerful level. All the classes provide a wealth of practical knowledge that you can put into action, including a customized safety plan to take back and implement at your facility. Get ready to see results in your safety performance!

The Advanced Safety Certificate is earned by the successful completion (within a 5 year period) of the following track:

Principles of Occupational Safety and Health (POSH) and two of the three courses below:

• Safety Management Techniques (SMT)
• Safety Training Methods (STM)
• Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene (FIH)
  

Principles of Occupational Safety and Health

(click title to register) A comprehensive program on fundamental occupational safety and health terminology, principles and practices. Participants receive NSC’s Accident Prevention Manuals on DVD, which address technical and human relations aspects of occupational safety and health in any size and type of business or industry.

Course Includes:

How OSHA affects your organization.

Using record keeping to prevent injuries and illness and meet OSHA requirements.

How to effectively plan and conduct safety inspections .

The who, what, when, where, and how of incident investigations.

The impact of industrial hygiene and HazCom standards on your safety plan.

Components of the communication process and how to improve the effectiveness of safety messages.

Recognizing, evaluating and controlling hazards.

Creating an effective safety team and productive safety meetings.

Assessing ergonomic risk factors, and corrective actions.

Personal protective equipment (PPE) and usage.

Developing an emergency action plan.

Effective safety orientation programs.

Safety Management Techniques

(click title to register) This course will help you manage employees and/or projects in your safety and health efforts. Program content, case studies, exercises and discussions focus on the practical knowledge and skills required to effectively deal with safety-related organizational practices, environmental conditions and human relations issues.
Course Includes:

The fundamental principles of safety management.

Your role as a safety and health professional.

Leadership strategies for success.

The dynamics of organizational safety culture.

Strategies and steps to create organizational and individual change.

Enhancing your interviewing, consulting and influencing skills.

Tools to track the progress of your organization's safety management system.

Steps for preparing a successful safety management audit.

Creating an action plan to improve safety management in your organization.

Safety Training Methods

(click title to register) Safety Training Methods focuses on the knowledge and skills required to assess your training needs, as well as plan, organize, create and deliver performance-based safety and health training programs. While emphasis is on developing and delivering instructor-led/classroom training, you’ll become acquainted with other instructional methods and media used to effectively train employees on safety and health issues.
Course Includes:

Designing a training program applicable to your work environment.

Strategies and methods that address adult learning needs.

Training needs analysis.

Delivering presentations to practice your public speaking skills.

Identify training and non-training solutions for safety and health case studies.

Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene

This course develops your understanding of industrial hygiene principles and practices. Examine four key processes in an effective industrial hygiene effort: anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control.
Course Includes:

Anatomy and physiology.
Toxicology.

Recognizing chemical hazards (liquids, gases, vapors and particulates).

Recognizing physical hazards (noise, radiation and thermal stress).

Recognizing ergonomic hazards.

Recognizing biological hazards.

Conducting walk-through surveys.

Air sampling techniques.

Noise measurement.

Ventilation and other engineering controls.

Personal protective equipment.

Respiratory protection.

Safety and health programs/agencies.

Government standards and voluntary guidelines.