PRODUCT SAFETY EDUCATION PROGRAM AGENDA
What Are our programs?
Fundamentals of Product Safety – Coming 2026
This program is designed for those who are new to the product safety field, for those who are well-versed in one or more aspects of products safety and would like a more robust understanding, or as a refresher course for any product safety professional.
Advanced Practices in Product Safety – September 17 -19, 2025
This program is designed for those who have a least three years in the product safety field and are ready to deepen their skills and product safety professionals. This program can be a supplemental training program for members of a product safety team who want to prepare for mor senior roles and team managers.
Product Safety Professional Certification Program – Coming 2026
This program run in partnership with Virginia Tech is the only program specifically designed for consumer product safety professionals by consumer product safety professionals to help elevate the profession. This intensive course expands a safety professional’s knowledge by focusing on topics essential to managing a product safety organization for a company of any size. Candidates for this program must have at least five years of product safety work experience.
1. The Consumer Product Safety Professional Certification Program
The consumer product safety field's coveted designation as Certified Product Safety Professional™ is earned by professionals who meet the experience and education criteria for admittance into the program. The course content is built around five pillars of knowledge that constitute the product safety professional’s broad understanding of principles and processes that govern best product safety practices including: (1) organizational culture and ethics, (2) risk assessment and management, (3) regulatory compliance, (4) incident management and forensics, and (5) product recalls and returns. Candidates must demonstrate their knowledge and understanding through three different assessment activities including a multiple-choice examination, design and delivery of a case study, and defending their case study foundation before a panel of product safety experts and university educators.
This year’s program will once again be offered in cooperation with our university partner Virgina Tech. The program runs over a two-month period including on site opening and closing workshops at Virginia Tech's Research Center in Arlington, VA, and an online webinar series that can be attended remotely. For more information, click here: https://www.productsafetyprofessionals.org/certification1
2. Fundamentals of Product Safety (Previously titled: Product Safety Leadership Fundamentals)
The Fundamentals course is offered for a range of product safety experience - from those just entering the product safety career to those seeking to update their knowledge on best practices and trends in the field. The course is a “how to” course to enhance the skills and knowledge of product safety managers in such areas as product design, compliance programs, regulatory affairs, risk assessment and product safety assurance, incident management programs and investigations, and product recalls and returns. This year’s program covers over two and a half days of on-site classroom instruction. Instructors are all experienced product safety professionals who often become long-term resources to members of the class as they pursue their careers.
3. Product Safety Leadership in Practice: (Previously titled: Advanced Product Safety Management Program)
The Product Safety Leadership in Practice Course focuses on areas that will contribute to the product safety professional’s general knowledge of core areas of understanding, combined with management insight into basic business leadership principles, including culture, ethics, communications, and effective outcomes. The program is designed for individuals with responsibilities to protect their companies and its brands, as well as consumers in the area of product safety. Each program has a focus - related to areas of challenge in the product safety field. This course is designed for product safety professionals with a minimum of five years of experience in the field, or a graduate in a related field of study from an accredited university or professional development organization. The course is designed for product safety managers with backgrounds in product liability, risk management, product development, compliance, engineering, chemists and toxicologists, operations, product integrity, and quality assurance personnel. It is a leadership training program that emphasizes peer networking and relationship building. The program may be offered in cooperation with a partner university.