Certifications and FAQ's
ZeroInjuryInstitute.com provides safety training in The Zero Injury Safety Leadership Concept. Interested parties can complete the required zero injury safety training modules and upon completion be designated as a registered “Certified in Zero Injury Technology” graduate for the enrolled position.
Certifications are available initially for the construction industry for Crafts, Foremen, General Foremen, Superintendents, Project Engineers, Managers, General Managers, and Corporate Officers. Certifications are also offered for Safety Professionals and other construction support staff.
Additional industrial and business category positions will be available for Certification soon.
Also the Institute also offers safety consulting in the Zero Injury Safety Leadership Concept to management, conducts and facilitates group Zero Injury workshops, supervisor training sessions, Zero Injury Safety Culture assessments, and employee safety perceptions surveys; tailored to fit your company’s individual needs. By enrolling in the institute you will learn every aspect of what it takes to reach "Zero Injury" in your workplace. Join today! FREE for seven days! Call us today for information. 877-898-ZERO
The Zero Injury Institute
Now offers Zero Injury Educational Modules for your employees. Completion Certification Documents attest that employees are knowledgeable in the essential Zero Injury Safety Culture Building Criteria for the job position training undertaken.
This knowledge equips your employees to proactively participate in creating a safety culture where employee injury becomes a very rare event, with some employers working millions of hours without so much as an OSHA Recordable injury.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why Certification?
While a few employers can take on the workload of teaching the zero injury material to all employees in a timely manner, most employers cannot. Why? Because there are conflicts in the “time of need and available resources.” The Zero Injury Institute Certifications pre-prepare your employees to join your firm already knowledgeable in the particular details of how to fulfill their specific role in creating your Zero Injury Safety Culture. After certification, all the employer has to do is add any employer specific or job specific safety culture building information.
Why is this advantageous?
It is typical that at the beginning of a project the work load is heavy and allotting time for the training is quite difficult, so pre-training and certification removes this stress by allowing your employees to come to work already equipped to with the knowledge and understanding of your expectation of “zero at-risk behavior” standards.
Which construction job classifications can be certified?
Initially certifications are available for all positions from Craft to Project Manager. After these training modules are online, certifications for other industries will be added.
Are Certifications available for Safety Professionals?
Yes. Initially two safety professional certifications are being made available, Safety Professional and Safety Director/Manager. The Safety Professional certifications content for the construction industry are built on the certification modules beginning with crafts and advancing up the line organization to Foreman, Superintendent and Project Manager. Hence, the Safety Professional wishing certification will be required to complete the series of Modules beginning with the Craft Module + Foreman Module + Superintendent Module + Project Manager Module; then additional zero injury educational material are added that are particularly important for the Safety Professionals to complete their module.
How much time is required to complete a module?
Obviously this depends on the speed with which an individual wishes to progress through the material. The modules range in length from 7000 to 9000 words. We estimate time for each module may take as little as an hour or slightly more, ranging up to 2 hours, for those moving more slowly. As each individual develops an aptitude for the online module pace, it is likely each successive module will be completed in less time than the last.
Can you tell me a little more about the Zero Injury Safety Leadership Concept?
While the concept is news for many people, “The Zero Injury Safety Leadership Concept” has been around since 1995, when the Construction Industry Institute (CII) completed its first research into how some owners and contractors could work millions of hours with Zero Lost Time Injuries. Amazingly, since then some users have achieved a million hours or more with Zero Recordable Injuries. A total of four batteries of zero injury research were completed by CII, the last in 2003. Astoundingly, those who use the CII research are setting new safety performance records every year.
Do these certifications reduce the amount of time it takes for safety orientations?
That depends; if the company is trying to provide this training internally then yes, it can reduce training time. However, the challenge for any company interested in using the Zero Injury Safety Leadership Concept is the timely and consistent education of their employees. This is where ZII can help.
Will the certifications improve our training effectiveness?
Yes, implementing the CII research results in a company requires the creation of safety training modules designed around the research outcomes. This work is time consuming and labor intensive. Most of the zero injury training is educating your employees on the origins of, the logic for, the results of, and the necessity of employee understanding and obtaining buy-in on the basic cultural operating norms of a culture of safety where injury is a rare to non-existent event. With the ZII certifications an employee can come to you already trained.
Do you mean certifications can reduce our work load?
Yes. With the ZII modules a company can easily train all their employees in the Zero Injury technology. If training is self-performed, it can be a great deal of work, especially in industries that have significant turnover in the employee count. For instance, in construction industry it is typical that a contractor employing 500 employees will issue at year’s end over 1000 W2 tax forms. This is indicative of just how much training has to be completed each and every year.
What about the cost of all this training?
One might think that the cost of all this training would defeat the benefits of creating a zero injury culture but that is not true. It has been proven many times over that the “return on investment” (ROI) in the training costs range from 3 to 5 dollars to every one dollar spent. This amazing return comes from the elimination of the ever so costly injuries that besiege a company not able to focus on eliminating all employee injury.
If we can do this ourselves why should we use ZII?
Even when a company successfully creates the zero injury modules, the timely delivery and the consistent quality of the training is very difficult to accomplish. Often companies will lose the talent being used for this training, and then are faced with the difficult task of retraining the new trainers. Or, they find the need for the available training staff exceeds its ability to deliver the course modules everywhere they are needed. Some larger construction companies are able to sustain, improve upon and even enlarge the company zero injury education and training curriculum. Yet many companies of smaller size or new to the zero injury culture need a reliable and consistent source to provide the zero injury culture training to their newly hired employees. Further, there is the ever present danger of the amazing progress in reducing injury being slowed or even reversed due to the lack of a consistent training process. The Zero Injury Institute was formed to ensure this progress is sustainable in the decades to come by providing services aimed at the timeliness and consistency of Zero Injury Culture Building Education and Training.
Where does this Certification information come from?
One of the significant contributors to the advent of The Zero Injury Safety Leadership Concept has been Emmitt J. Nelson, who served as Chairman of the 1990 CII Zero Accidents Task Force. Emmitt has for the past 20 years, since retiring from Shell Oil Company, provided consulting and media papers on the Zero Injury Safety Leadership Concept. He formed Nelson Consulting Inc. in 1992 and has been consultant to many corporations specifically in teaching Zero Injury during his 20 years in the safety consulting field. Emmitt is a graduate of Texas A&M University, where he received a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering, and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. He was inducted into the National Academy of Construction (NAC) in 2000 where he now serves as Chairman of the NAC Safety Committee. It is Emmitt’s battery of work that provides the Zero Injury Institute (ZII) its source of information around which the Institute builds it various educational and training modules. Emmitt has always credited the Construction Industry Institute Zero Accident Research as the principal source of his basic zero injury information. He also utilizes observations he has made of clients’ successful application of the CII material. These clients have added significant value in verifying that the CII material is uniquely effective in eliminating injury if applied properly.
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