Registered Health and Safety Professional (RHSP)

Upon completing the Registered Health and Safety Professional (RHSP) program, participants will be able to:

• Interpret and apply OSHA 29 CFR 1910 (General Industry) and 29 CFR 1926 (Construction) standards alongside ACGIH TLVs and NIOSH RELs to manage comprehensive workplace health and safety programmes that protect workers from both acute safety hazards and chronic occupational health risks.
• Conduct integrated health and safety risk assessments that evaluate chemical, biological, physical, ergonomic, and psychosocial hazards within a unified framework, producing risk registers that prioritise both immediate safety controls and long-term health protection measures.
• Design, implement, and maintain integrated health and safety management systems aligned with ISO 45001, ANSI Z10, and Total Worker Health principles, embedding occupational health alongside safety into a single governance structure.
• Manage occupational health surveillance programmes: pre-placement medical evaluations, periodic health monitoring, biological exposure monitoring, health trend analysis, and the regulatory medical surveillance requirements under specific OSHA substance standards (lead, asbestos, silica, benzene, noise).
• Design and manage emergency preparedness and crisis management programmes that address both safety emergencies (fire, explosion, structural collapse) and health emergencies (chemical exposure, toxic release, heat illness, pandemic response).
• Conduct advanced incident investigations that examine both safety failures (equipment, process, procedural) and health causation factors (exposure history, latency, dose-response) to prevent recurrence of both injury incidents and occupational disease cases.
• Lead organisational culture transformation that integrates health and safety: building reporting culture, implementing just culture principles, engaging leadership, and measuring culture maturity across both safety behaviours and health protection.
• Manage compliance auditing programmes that assess both safety compliance (OSHA general industry and construction standards) and health compliance (exposure monitoring, medical surveillance, respiratory protection, hearing conservation) within a single audit framework.
• Communicate integrated health and safety strategy, performance, and investment recommendations to senior management and boards using the business case for health and safety: cost avoidance, productivity, insurance, regulatory risk, ESG, and workforce wellbeing.
• Serve as the organisation’s registered health and safety authority, providing professional-level guidance across both domains to operations, engineering, HR, legal, and executive leadership.

Core Modules

• Occupational Health and Safety Regulatory Framework: OSHA 29 CFR 1910 and 1926, ACGIH TLVs, NIOSH RELs, EPA environmental health, and the integrated regulatory architecture that governs both safety and occupational health
• Integrated Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment: chemical, biological, physical, ergonomic, and psychosocial hazard assessment within a unified health-and-safety risk management framework
• Health and Safety Management System Design: ISO 45001, ANSI Z10, Total Worker Health, and the integration of occupational health programmes within safety management system architecture
• Emergency Planning, Crisis Management, and Health Emergency Response: safety emergencies plus chemical exposure, toxic release, heat illness, and pandemic preparedness
• Occupational Health Surveillance and Exposure Management: medical monitoring, biological exposure indices, exposure assessment, health trend analysis, and regulatory medical surveillance requirements
• Industrial Equipment Safety and PPE Programme Governance: machine guarding, LOTO, confined space, and PPE programmes integrating both safety protection and health protection (respiratory, hearing, dermal)
• Behavioural Safety, Culture, and Workforce Wellbeing: safety culture maturity models, just culture, psychological safety, and the integration of worker wellbeing with traditional safety culture programmes
• Advanced Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis: investigating both safety incidents and occupational health events using Ishikawa, fault tree, barrier analysis, and exposure-response analysis
• Compliance Auditing and Continuous Improvement: integrated health-and-safety auditing, leading/lagging indicators for both domains, benchmarking, and data-driven improvement

Specialised / Optional Modules

• Industrial Hygiene and Exposure Control: airborne contaminant monitoring, ventilation design, noise management, and heat stress prevention
• Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Health: workstation assessment, manual handling, RULA/REBA, and MSD prevention programme design
• Hazardous Materials and Chemical Safety Management: HazCom, GHS, SDS management, chemical inventory, and hazardous materials programme governance
• Construction Health and Safety: integrated health-and-safety management for construction operations including silica, noise, and fall protection

• Senior HSE professionals and HSE directors whose role spans both occupational health and safety management
• Safety managers seeking to formalise their occupational health competency alongside their established safety expertise
• Occupational health professionals seeking to formalise their safety management competency alongside their health expertise
• EHS managers in manufacturing, chemical, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, and construction who manage integrated health-and-safety programmes
• Safety consultants seeking the broadest possible professional credential that demonstrates competency across both health and safety domains
• Professionals who hold the CHSM (safety management) and want to add the occupational health dimension for a complete H&S professional profile
• HSE directors preparing for board-level governance roles where integrated health, safety, and wellbeing reporting is required

• 3 or more years of practical health and/or safety experience is recommended
• The CHSM, RSM, CSS, or equivalent certification provides an excellent foundation
• Experience in both occupational health and safety domains strengthens candidacy
• No formal academic degree is required
• All instruction in English; professional proficiency required

• CSSP: Certified Safety Supervisor (supervisory enforcement)
• CSHT: Certified Safety and Health Trainer (training design)
• CSS: Certified Safety Specialist (technical expertise)
• CHSO: Certified Health and Safety Officer
• CHSM: Certified Health and Safety Manager (programme leadership)
• RSM: Registered Safety Manager (strategic safety governance)
• RHSP: Registered Health and Safety Professional — YOU ARE HERE (integrated health + safety at professional level)
• RSP: Registered Safety Professional (top-tier safety credential)

Participants receive online training delivered through leading delivery platforms and the institute's Learning Management System (LMS). Training is provided directly by American Institute of Safety Professionals as well as through its network of Accredited Training Providers (ATPs), all backed by expert instruction and official study materials. Assessments are conducted online, and successful participants are awarded internationally recognized certificates.

To suit individual needs and schedules, participants can access training through the student dashboard and choose from a range of flexible delivery options, including blended learning, e-learning, remote and distance learning, and face-to-face instruction.