Course Description
Expand your influence as an EHS professional with ASSP’s ANSI/ASSP Z16 Certificate Program. 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. You’ll learn how to build a balanced metrics system that connects safety outcomes to business impact, while developing a systematic approach to identifying key risks, analyzing data and validating safety strategies. 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.
You’ll also discuss how to engage stakeholders in selecting meaningful metrics that reflect organizational values and develop new ways to communicate results clearly and persuasively to gain leadership buy-in and demonstrate value. You’ll take away practical tools and strategies for evaluating and refining your organization’s metrics system over time, using strategic insights to drive sustained performance and measurable success. The program includes a copy of ANSI/ASSP Z16.1-2022, Safey and Health Metrics and Performance Measures.
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.
Length
4-weeks
Levels (Experience with Topic)
Advanced: 10+ years
Instruction Method
Online-Instructor-Led: As a virtual learner, you’ll receive all the benefits of face-to-face instruction, eliminate travel cost and time, while learning in a structured way whether at work, at home or at another convenient location. To participate fully, you will need a computer with audio/video capability and a reliable internet connection.
During this four-week online course, you will connect with your peers in group discussions, participate in interactive learning activities, review instructional videos and complete assignments
Each Monday throughout the duration of the course, your instructor will hold a 90-minute online meeting from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. CT. These meetings are designed to facilitate group work, share expert knowledge, answer questions, provide feedback and offer active learning support.
Course Materials
ANSI/ASSP Z16.1-2022 Safety & Health Metrics & Performance Measures
Resources found under Downloads in My Account.
Instructor(s)
Alexi Carli MS, CSP
President, Carli Consulting, LLC
Alexi Carli is a seasoned Health and Safety Professional with over 35 years of experience, with expertise in management systems, risk control, OSH leadership, and performance-based processes. As former Vice President of Global Health and Safety at UPS, she led programs that impacted more than 500,000 employees worldwide. She holds a MS in Occupational Safety & Health, a bachelor’s degree in business management, and has maintained her Certified Safety Professional (CSP) designation since 1995.
Carli is a frequent presenter at national and regional conferences including ASSP, RIMS, ORCHSE, NAWHSL, and NAEM. She chairs the ANSI/ASSP Z16.1 Committee and developed two ASSP learning modules on OSH finance and business case pitching. She has been featured on ASSP podcasts and co-authored a Professional Safety article on measuring OSH performance using the Z16.1 standard.
Paul A. Esposito, CSP, CIH
President, STAR Consultants, Inc.
Since 1997, Paul Esposito has served as President of STAR Consultants, Inc., bringing nearly 40 years of technical experience in Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) management. With over 30 years leading HSE consulting organizations, he has worked with top companies around the globe. Paul holds a master’s in health and safety from Johns Hopkins University and is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Certified Safety Professional (CSP), and formerly a Safety Management Specialist (SMS).
He is the lead instructor for ASSP’s Risk Assessment Certificate and Safety Management Specialist courses, and a faculty member in Eastern Kentucky University’s graduate safety program. Paul contributes to international safety standards as a member of the ISO 31000 TAG (Risk Management) and the ANSI Z16 Committee on Safety and Health Metrics and Performance Measures.
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