ANSI/ASSP Z16 Certificate

ANSI/ASSP Z16 Certificate

The ANSI/ASSP Z16 Certificate is designed to help expand your influence, improve safety outcomes and strengthen accountability within your organization. Learn effective strategies for applying the ANSI/ASSP Z16 standard to identify, monitor and report meaningful EHS metrics that align with organizational goals and drive operational excellence.

Through hands-on exercises, you’ll explore how to integrate leading and lagging indicators, support continuous improvement, and align safety metrics with risk reduction and safety management system enhancements. This program is ideal for EHS professionals with more than ten years’ experience.

What You Will Learn

• Explain key concepts of safety metrics
• Define a set of leading, lagging and impact (logic) metrics, and explain their roles in EHS performance and continual improvement using the ANSI/ASSP Z16 standard
• Identify appropriate metrics to support risk reduction, improve safety management system elements and recognize potential issues or unintended consequences in measurement systems
• Analyze the interrelationships among leading, lagging and impact metrics to ensure a holistic and effective approach to safety performance measurement
• Develop and structure a comprehensive, balanced set of safety metrics that aligns EHS performance with business objectives
• Use impact metrics to build business cases, support strategic objectives and communicate performance outcomes effectively
• Create actionable strategies using metrics to drive and sustain continual improvement of EHS and safety management system performance across the organization

How to Earn Your Certificate

Step 1: Enroll in Our ANSI/ASSP Z16 Certificate Program.

There is no fee to register for the program. However, there is a separate registration process and fee for the required course. Once you are enrolled, please continue to Step 2.

Step 2: Register for and complete the required course within two years.

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• Using Safety Metrics to Drive Operational Excellence with Z16

Step 3: Retrieve your certificate!

Upon completion of the required course, ASSP will post your certificate within 24-48 hours in your profile at www.assp.org, (Log-in, go to My Account, My Programs). Download the certificate and display it to recognize your career achievement!

Why Earn a Professional Certificate From ASSP?

ASSP has a long-standing reputation for delivering top-quality safety education and training that OSH professionals can immediately put into practice — giving you an advantage in your workplace, in your industry and in the safety profession.

• Establish credibility as a leader and signify your commitment to the safety profession
• Gain a competitive advantage and maximize your earning potential
• Become an indispensable asset and valuable resource to your workers and organization
• Grow your professional network by learning alongside other safety professionals
• Understand and integrate best practices from leading organizations