National Safety Council's Advanced Safety Certificate (ASC)

Steps to Safety Excellence
through Professional Development

This Certificate helps you maximize your effectiveness as a safety manager and leader, target the technical and management safety skills you want to develop, and learn to use your knowledge of best practices to take your safety program to a new and more powerful level. The core courses in this Certificate program give you a solid foundation of knowledge to meet all your safety challenges. Choose the electives you need for more in-depth review of specific safety topics.  And step out on a path towards greater accomplishment and recognition.

Safety Training designed for:

Full-time safety practitioners, safety committee members, safety coordinators, safety specialists, human resources, safety managers, loss control managers, and operations managers.

Get ready to see results in your safety performance:

• Learn techniques for a balanced approach to safety management addressing administrative, technical, and cultural elements.
• Develop your management skills to establish yourself as a problem solver and decision maker.
• Determine when, how, and to whom you should delegate safety responsibilities.
• Set safety performance measures for your employees and your organization.
• Get a head start on a management plan tailored to your organization's safety and health practices.
• Assess your organization's safety training needs and deliver performance-based training.
• Design a custom safety training program for your organization.

The Advanced Safety Certificate is a nationally recognized professional achievement. As a certificate holder, you are awarded an engraved plaque from the National Safety Council to display in your office.

At the Safety and Health Council of North Carolina, you will receive the added advantage of instruction from leading industry professionals straight from the front lines, dealing with the day-to-day problems inherent in the safety field. In addition, you will spend 4 days with your peers from a variety of businesses and industries, large and small, exchanging ideas, working on problems and solutions. These people will be another resource for you to call in the future. Earning this certificate is an investment in your future as a safety and health professional.

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Step 1: Complete the core course - Principles of Occupational Safety and Health (POSH) - 2.6 CEU's

Step 2: Take a minimum of 5.2 CEU's:

• Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene - 2.6 CEU's
• Safety Management Techniques - 2.6 CEU's
• Safety Training Methods - 2.6 CEU's
• All 4 of these count as 1 ASC course:
  Incident Investigation - 0.65 CEU's
  Safety Inspections - 0.65 CEU's
  Ergonomics: Managing for Results - 0.65 CEU's
  Job Safety Analysis - 0.65 CEU's