CSMP™
IHMM’s Certified Safety Management Practitioner (CSMP™) credential recognizes workplace safety and health professionals who have a less formal education but can demonstrate a mastery of workplace safety and labor law regulations earned through training and experience.
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The CSMP is the only accredited professional safety designation that demonstrates both a technical level of safety expertise and high-level management skills. It ensures my staff are completely well rounded to manage daily business operations.
Benefits of a CSMP™ Credential
The CSMP™ is ideal for EHS Managers with experience, but limited formal education, or for Plant or Project Managers, Engineers, or HR Professionals, whose duties include some EHS Management responsibilities. The CSMP designation after your name is a reflection of your professional accomplishment attained through experience and training.
Who Hires CSMPs?
Here is a small example of the thousands of private companies and government entities who hire CSMPs in the United States and around the World. You are about to embark on an amazing career advancement with the IHMM CSMP – truly a global credential.
Eligibility Requirements
A candidate must meet all eligibility requirements before scheduling and taking their exam. These include (1) file an application; (2) transcript (upload a copy of your transcript/diploma if applicable to the application) (3) third-party employment verification, and (4) pay the application fee. Then pass the exam and pay the annual fee to be issued the credential. The following are the prerequisites…
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Prerequisites
- High School Diploma or GED + 3 years of experience.
- Associate’s Degree in Safety-Related Field + 1 year of experience.
- Applicants in the practice of safety and health containing 25% to 50% of their job duties may substitute every 2 years of that experience to meet the 1 year of the prerequisite requirement, above in #2.
- Full-time professional safety and health management experience are acceptable. Requires position duties with 50% or greater safety and health management related activities.
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College Transcript
Your official transcript or diploma must be uploaded to your application before it can be submitted. To find out whether a college in the U.S. is accredited, check with the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).
Degrees from colleges or universities outside of the U.S. are acceptable if they are documented as equivalent to a BS/BA degree issued in the U.S. Candidates with degrees from colleges and universities outside of the U.S. must upload a copy of their statement of equivalency from a recognized evaluating agency. For a list of recognized agencies, see https://www.naces.org/members. Once there, select an entity under CURRENT MEMBERS, and then do your research on your degree.
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Relevant Experience
Relevant experience includes, but is not limited to, the following examples:
- IHMM verifies the job experience you upload during the application and could include,
- Occupational safety and health regulations management and implementation in the workplace
- Conducting safety audits or product safety analysis
- Conducting hazard analysis and accident investigations
- Implementing and managing workplace safety programs, workers’ compensation risk mitigation, and working with labor laws
- Evidence of working knowledge of business and financial management principles
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Start an Application, Pay the Application Fee
Start your application and pay the application fee. See below under Let’s Start Your Application. If you need assistance with the application contact Kaylene Cagle at [email protected] or call 928-247-6458
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Move on to Schedule and Take the Examination
Having submitted your application, paid your application fee, and been approved, then you move on to purchase your examination. Move down to the next section of this site for information about taking the exam. If you need assistance with the CSMP examination contact Kaylene Cagle at [email protected] or call 928-247-6458
Examination Preparation
Candidates need to be familiar with relevant laws and regulations, relevant scientific principles and their application, and best management practices. Many candidates attend overview courses or use self-study materials to prepare for the examination. IHMM does not require any specific type of exam preparation or training and the exams are not based on any single reference.
IHMM credentialing programs and examinations are based on an Exam Specifications "blueprint.” The blueprints govern the competency requirements for each credential and provide the outline of topics for the examinations. Examination questions are developed from the blueprints and applicants base their examination study on the blueprint.
Please see the Candidate Handbook for additional information
Find a Course to Prepare for the Exam
Preparing for your CSMP examination is important as the CSMP examination is challenging. Your CSMP examination is derived from the CSMP blueprint, so downloading the CSMP blueprint and understanding the domains and their contents is a good first start. If you seek a course to take in which to prepare for the CSMP examination, you will find a course in our companion foundation, the Hazardous Materials Society.
CSMP Blueprint
The CSMP examination is a testing instrument designed to evaluate candidates seeking professional certification in the field of environment, health, and safety. This Specification Blueprint is intended to offer guidance to candidates by outlining reasonably expected duties and tasks based on surveys of what environment, health and safety practitioners do in practice.
Accreditation
and Recognition
The measure of the quality and strength of a certification program is to evaluate its accreditation status. Accreditation is a form of certification for the certifying organization, requiring conformance with strict standards of validity, reliability, and impartiality.
A key feature of IHMM credentialing programs, accreditation is essential because of the nature of work performed by IHMM certificants. The management of environment, health and safety issues in the workplace are governed by model regulations from the U.S. Department of Labor, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as from safety industry best practices regulations.
Accredited credentials allow professionals to not only gain knowledge to use and implement these regulations but to be recognized for their competency to properly manage and perform the functions of the profession.
Apply or Pay a Fee
If you are a first-time user and want to make an application to take an exam, or if you are an existing certificant wanting to pay a fee, everything is done through our online Portal MYIHMM.
Existing certificants use their username/password to log in. New users can create an account and then apply. If you need assistance in any way, please contact Kortney Tunstall at [email protected], Rosie Wilson at [email protected], or Kaylene Cagle at [email protected]. One of them will be glad to help you.
When you have your user/pass and can enter MYIHMM, Click on MENU and you will see this display. Select what You want to do from the menu and proceed…
A collaborative culture is important for every business but is especially important for our hazardous materials, dangerous goods, environment, health and safety communities of practice. IHMM credentialed professionals are at the top 1% of their professions and their reach is global. We are at the forefront of environmental protection, health, and safety and this is where collaborating with the best people in their fields, always willing to help one another, lessens the stress of our jobs and where we strive as a team to make a difference of which we are proud.
Policies and
Code of Ethics
Per the guidance of our accreditation authorities and our internal leadership, IHMM has a variety of policies that bear on our impartiality, our Code of Ethics, our regard for the privacy of your information and data, nondiscrimination, and additional federal guidelines for access to our tests and facilities. Everyone needs to be familiar with these policies as every applicant will be asked to affirm having read, understood, and agrees to be bound by all of these policies in the application process.
Recertification of Your Credential
Congratulations. After hard work and dedication, you earned your professional credential. Now, every 5 years you will need to recertify your valuable credential. Over 5 years you need to earn 200 certification maintenance points or CMPs. You receive 100 CMPs for the job you perform, and then need to earn a minimum of another 100 CMPs in a variety of ways demonstrating your commitment to continuous improvement and remaining current with the demands of your profession and our communities of practice.
Considering everything you did to achieve certification, don’t let it go to waste by failing to recertify.
IHMM will remind you, fairly often, about your impending recertification deadline. If you follow the steps outlined below you will find this process fairly easy to accomplish. Start with the advice in Step #1!
Step 1
Be proactive and enter your CMPs as you earn them. CMPs must be claimed following the guidelines in the IHMM Recertification Handbook.
Step 2
In your MYIHMM account, start your recertification application now to track CMPs as you go. Go to MYIHMM > then MENU > then Recertification > then Create a New Recertification Application.
Step 3
Keep your employment status and professional information current in your MYIHMM account. Please make sure your annual fees are also up-to-date.
Step 4
In your 5th year, make sure all information is correct, confirm your minimum of 200 CMPs, and submit application. Don’t worry, we’ll remind you along the way, too!
Step 5
Audits. Keep records of employment and CMPs requested. We may check in from time to time to assure accuracy.
Following these simple steps will make your recertification simple and easy to complete. Go to your online MYIHMM account, using your unique username and password.
If you have any questions about this process, please contact Jimmy Nguyen at [email protected] or Jelian Labri at [email protected] and someone will assist you.
IHMM Recertification Videos
IHMM has prepared these step-by-step videos for you to watch as you prepare your recertification application. Start with Video #1 and then move on to Video #2.
Recertification Video #1 – Start Here
Recertification Video #2 – Finish Here
Reinstatement
An individual who previously held an IHMM certification that has not been decertified on ethical grounds may apply to have his or her certification reinstated if their annual fees have been expired for less than five (5) years and/or their decertified certification has been expired for less than five (5) years.
If either condition is not met, the individual must go through the full certification process to become certified again.
Reinstatement is not a reversal of decertification. All time in service is lost at the time of decertification. For more information regarding the reversal of decertification, please refer to IHMM’s Decertification Appeal Policy.
Evidence of knowing continued use of a decertified certification after having been provided notice of decertification by IHMM is a violation of your certification agreement and is unethical, and will render the individual ineligible for reinstatement.