What is the Certified Hazard Mitigation Planner?

The Certified Hazard Mitigation Planner is a globally recognised professional certification by the Global Leadership Institute (GLI), designed to equip professionals with advanced competencies in Soft Skills & Personal Dev..

How long does this certification take?

The programme is 8 Week and can be completed at your own pace through our self-paced online option, or alongside live virtual sessions.

Is this certification globally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are internationally recognised and carry CPD credits, making them valuable for career advancement worldwide.

What level is this certification?

This is a Intermediate Level certification, suitable for professionals with relevant experience or background in the field.

You can enrol by emailing info@leadership.co.ke, contacting us via WhatsApp at +254 722 223 084, or filling the enrolment form below.

Certified Hazard Mitigation Planner (CHMP) | Online Certification

Executive Summary

Certified Hazard Mitigation Planner

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Hazard Mitigation Planner (CHMP) delivers a rigorous Intermediate-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in occupational safety, health and workplace wellbeing.

This 8 Week programme is structured around ISO 45001, OSHA and recognised occupational health and safety standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CHMP holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification

Certified Hazard Mitigation Planner

Acronym

CHMP

Who Should Enrol?

The Hierarchy of Control — applied to your own work
Risk Assessment in Practice — applied to your own work
High-Risk Work and Contractors — applied to your own work
Health, Exposure and Wellbeing — applied to your own work
Incidents and Emergencies — applied to your own work
Legal Duties and Environment — applied to your own work

Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

All study materials and study guide
Access to GLI online learning portal
Online examination and assessment
Digital certificate and digital badge
Physical certificate (shipped to you)
CPD credits for professional bodies
GLI alumni network membership
Facilitator and tutor support
Resource downloads and reference library
Automatic enrolment confirmation

Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Career Advancement

Accelerate your career towards senior HSE and safety-leadership roles

Professional Recognition

Credential aligned with ISO 45001, OSHA and recognised occupational health and safety standards

Leadership Capability

Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex occupational safety functions

Organisational Impact

Design and implement occupational safety systems that drive performance and measurable results

Compliance Readiness

Master the standards, compliance and ethical governance central to occupational safety

Global Employability

Qualify for occupational safety roles across construction, energy, manufacturing, marine and industrial operations worldwide

Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

✦Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

✦Occupational Health, Hygiene and Wellbeing

✦Safety Management Systems and Compliance

✦Incident Investigation and Emergency Preparedness

✦Safety Culture, Training and Behaviour

✦Professional Ethics and Governance

Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

Click any module to explore the detailed curriculum topics included in this certification.

Foundations and Strategic Context of Certified Hazard Mitigation Planner

Certified Hazard Mitigation Planner: industry context, trends and professional standards
Occupational safety and health principles
The business and moral case for HSE
HSE roles, responsibilities and competence
Legal framework and regulatory duties
Safety management systems overview (ISO 45001)
The hierarchy of controls
Safety culture and leadership
Ethics and duty of care
HSE as a strategic enabler
Career pathways and professional development

The Hierarchy of Control

The hierarchy of control
Risk assessment that changes what happens
Permit to work and high-risk task control
Machinery and equipment safety
Working at height and fall protection
Construction and site safety
Transport, driving and fleet safety
Investigation methodology and evidence
Regulatory notification and RIDDOR-style reporting
Near-miss and hazard reporting culture
Monitoring, sensors and wearables
Roles, responsibilities and consultation
Safety culture and climate
Human factors and error reduction
Safety leadership and visible commitment

Risk Assessment in Practice

Risk assessment that changes what happens
The hierarchy of control
Measuring HSE performance
Regulator and auditor relationships
Contractor and client engagement
Building a proactive safety culture
Continuous improvement programmes
Integrity in reporting and investigation
Anti-corruption and honest compliance
Capstone scoping: a real HSE challenge
Hazard identification techniques
Physical hazards: noise, vibration, radiation
Exposure assessment and monitoring
Occupational diseases and prevention
Ventilation and exposure control

High-Risk Work and Contractors

Permit to work and high-risk task control
Contractor safety and shared workplaces
HSE legal duties and enforcement
Fire detection and alarm systems
Portable fire extinguishers
Sprinkler and suppression systems
Smoke control and ventilation
Passive fire protection
Emergency lighting and signage
Inspection, testing and maintenance
Standards and codes
System design principles
Commissioning and reliability
Emergency response planning
Evacuation procedures and drills

Health, Exposure and Wellbeing

Occupational health, exposure and health surveillance
Wellbeing, fatigue and psychosocial risk
Safety culture, leadership and behaviour
Coordination with fire services
Post-incident review
Fire safety management systems
Training and awareness
Regulatory compliance and audits
Continuous fire-safety improvement
Stakeholder mapping and consultation
Worker and union engagement
First aid and medical emergency response
Motivation, recognition and consequences
Just culture and reporting
Incident investigation and root cause

Incidents and Emergencies

Incident investigation and root cause
Emergency preparedness and evacuation
Measuring HSE performance
Fire wardens and roles
Incident command basics
Environmental management and pollution control
Fire behaviour and spread
Fire load and compartmentation
Fire risk assessment methodology
Ignition sources and control
Human behaviour in fire
Fire safety in building design
Documentation and review

Legal Duties and Environment

HSE legal duties and enforcement
Environmental management and pollution control
Measuring HSE performance

Communication and Reporting

Reporting to boards and executives
Anti-corruption and honest reporting
Monitoring, control and reporting
Professional documentation and presentation
Communication planning and management
Reporting and dashboards
Project data, reporting and analytics
Integrated marketing communications
Dashboards and performance reporting
Professional presentation and pitching
Reporting to leadership
Compliance reporting and disclosure
Reporting and disclosure tools
Findings, reporting and remediation
Communication strategy in change programmes

Stakeholders and Liaison

Regulatory duty and accountability
Regulatory compliance and central-bank rules
Regulatory reporting and audits
Regulatory liquidity ratios (LCR, NSFR)
Stakeholder communications
Stakeholder mapping and engagement
Accounting concepts, principles and the regulatory landscape
Stakeholders and users of financial information
The regulatory and legal environment
Stakeholders, agency and accountability
Trends: ESG, transparency and stakeholder capitalism
Legal and regulatory responsibility
Implementation and stakeholder plan
Categories of spend and stakeholders
Internal customers and business partnering

Cost, Assets and Loss

Funding, cash flow and financing
Value and benefits management
Financial risk in projects
Procurement and contract value
Value engineering and optimisation
Realising and measuring project value
Cost estimation and budgeting
Earned value management
Time and cost control
Managing schedule and budget performance
Value management and business value
Continuous improvement of finance processes
Governance and organisational value
Options appraisal and cost-benefit
Embedding values and behaviours

Data and Intelligence

Data protection and customer privacy
Data, analytics and customer insight
Data analytics in audit
Evidence, judgement and scepticism
Metrics and reporting
Data migration and cleansing
Analytical techniques and bias
Performance measurement and KPI dashboards
Data analytics for assurance
Data governance and quality
Control testing and evidence
Portfolio of evidence and reflective practice
Data-driven decision support and analytics
Service KPIs: CSAT, NPS, CES, SLAs
Complaint data and learning

Planning and Design

Building high-performing project teams
Value proposition design and messaging
Marketing planning and budgeting
Designing a marketing or sales strategy
Campaign planning and execution
Account planning and whitespace analysis
Market research design and methods
Leading campaigns and sales projects
Team leadership in field and project settings
Preparing financial statements
Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
Project governance frameworks
Compliance and regulatory projects
Leading project governance
Change and adoption in projects

People Risk

Employee experience and engagement
Customer and employee satisfaction
Employee engagement models and drivers
Employee and manager self-service
NGO financial management and budget-versus-actual discipline
The customer experience (CX) discipline
Data protection and employee privacy
Belonging, culture and employee resource groups
Customer (employee/manager) satisfaction
Recruitment marketing and candidate attraction
Employer branding and employee value proposition (EVP)
Resource allocation and capital discipline
The business analysis discipline and role
The sales pipeline and forecasting discipline
CRM, sales operations and data discipline

Audit and Standards

Data quality and master data management
Sustainable procurement principles and standards
In-process quality control and inspection
Costing production: standard costs, variances and the true cost of scrap
Service quality and the passenger experience in transport
Quality management on site: inspections, hold points and defects
Healthcare quality, safety and accreditation
Reporting quality and governance
Evidence-based improvement
Interpreting financial statements
Project management standards (PMI, PRINCE2)
Data quality and governance
Professional standards and ethics
Continuous improvement and optimisation
Benchmarking against standards and best practice

Health and Safety

Integrated and sustainability reporting
Management accounts and dashboards
Health records, data and confidentiality
Telehealth and digital care delivery
Public health programmes: prevention and outreach
Budget vs actual and variance
Health financing: budgets, insurance and out-of-pocket realities
Procurement and stock management for health commodities
Working with organisations on wellbeing
Risk assessment and safety planning
Wellbeing and resilience coaching
Brand safety and responsible marketing
Customer and brand health metrics
Brand health and measurement
Regulatory compliance and biosafety

Change and Modernisation

Baseline setting and change control
Sales and marketing transformation
Measuring growth and transformation impact
Cost and profitability analysis
Digital and market transformation
Behaviour change and adoption of innovations
Customer experience transformation
Digital and self-service transformation
Measuring CX transformation impact
Digital transformation in banking
Foreign exchange and treasury operations
Future of work and workforce transformation
Large-scale transformation and agile ways of working
Forecasting and planning
Data visualisation for finance

Service and Public Interface

Customer data platforms and segmentation
Customer experience and journey mapping
Cross-functional collaboration with product and service
Media and public communication
Facilitation, training and public presentation skills
Digital advisory, e-extension and mobile services
Advisory service design and delivery
Customer service and experience principles
Customer expectations and satisfaction
Ethics and fair customer treatment
Service culture and brand promise
Strategic customer relationships
Policy administration and customer service in insurance
Vehicle specifications, trims and options in customer language
Customer retention in the vehicle ownership cycle

Records and Procedure

Data, records and confidentiality tech
Lessons learned and knowledge management
Process and control documentation
Tender planning and documentation
Knowledge management and capability building
Incident reporting and record-keeping
Vehicle documentation, compliance and consumer protection
Record-keeping and data protection
Scheduling and planning tools
Programme governance and assurance
Strategic alignment of investments

Strategy and Governance

Communications strategy and planning
Category management and strategy
Financial inclusion strategy
Strategic analysis: PESTLE, SWOT and Porter’s Five Forces
Corporate governance principles and purpose
Learning strategy and business alignment
Real options and strategic investment
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC)
Public, private and non-profit governance
Responsible and sustainable governance
Governance frameworks and codes
Decision support and insight
Technology governance and change control
Asset-liability committee (ALCO) governance
Governance and the three lines model

Contractors and Supply

The procurement cycle and operating models
Procurement’s contribution to organisational strategy
Public versus private procurement
Supply markets and the enabling environment
Digital procurement and the future of the profession
Leading procurement projects and change
Team leadership in procurement
Fair trade and responsible supply
Procurement and asset management under donor rules
Vendor, venue and supplier contracting for events
Water supply systems: sources, treatment and distribution
Procurement and contract management
Vendor selection and management
Supply market analysis
Payables, procurement controls and supplier fraud

HSE Practice

Control monitoring and reporting
Communicating financial results
Headcount budgeting and establishment control
Confidentiality and health data
Sustainability and environmental duty
Driving measurable safety improvement
Environmental management systems (ISO 14001)
Environmental legal compliance
Environmental monitoring and reporting
Continuous environmental improvement
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
Market analysis and environmental scanning
Control environment and risk assessment
Fraud risk and controls
Designing a safety programme or control

Risk and Resilience

Model risk and provisioning (IFRS 9)
Business continuity and crisis management
Interest-rate risk and gap analysis
Derivatives and risk instruments
Audit risk and materiality
Tax compliance and the tax risk agenda
Insurance, risk transfer and retained risk
Enterprise risk management (ERM)
Residual risk and ALARP
Risk registers and monitoring
Communicating risk to the workforce
Credit risk measurement and mitigation
Liquidity risk and asset-liability management
Operational risk and resilience
Business continuity and recovery

Legal and Regulatory

Contract governance and compliance
Comparable sales analysis and market evidence
Real estate regulation, licensing and professional conduct
Grant compliance and restricted funding management
Insurance regulation and consumer protection
Regulation of transport: authorities, conventions and licensing
Regulation, ethics and misinformation in media and telecoms
Attachment and developmental theory
Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
Evidence-based practice
Professional roles, boundaries and settings
Regulatory change management
Managing regulator relationships
Building a compliance culture
Regulatory technology (RegTech)

Operations and Supervision

Mineral processing and beneficiation
Outcome and process measures
Yield, productivity and profitability metrics
Journey and process redesign
Customer-centric operating models
Operational efficiency and productivity
Reconciliation and end-of-day processes
Operating-model and process re-engineering
Designing a banking solution or process
Principles of credit and the lending process
Automation, RPA and straight-through processing
Managing boundaries and dual relationships
Process modelling and mapping
Competitive bidding processes
Business process mapping

Security Technology

Digital and data-driven go-to-market
Digital marketing strategy
Marketing technology stack
Data-driven growth
Data-driven decision-making
Monitoring and evaluation with data
Peer support and consultation
Scaling technologies and business models
Duty of care and risk management
Baseline surveys and data collection tools
Closed-loop feedback systems
Branch-to-digital migration
Digital banking platforms and APIs
Payment technology and switches
Cybersecurity and fraud technology

Emergency and Incident

Crisis communications
Risk response and contingency
Succession planning and talent pipelines
Reward strategy and total reward frameworks
Continuous feedback and performance conversations
Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
Client feedback and satisfaction
Ethical decision-making under pressure
Managing risk and difficult cases
Root-cause analysis techniques
Trend analysis and leading indicators

Personnel and Capability

Managing team performance and dynamics
Cross-functional and matrix teams
Leading remote and hybrid teams
Team diversity and inclusion
High-performance team rituals and cadence
Managing resistance and capability building
Workforce and shift management in retail
Lessons learned and development
Working with referrers and multidisciplinary teams
Collaboration and teamwork
Scaling delivery capability
Virtual and distributed teams
Team leadership and motivation
Leading project teams
Team development and effectiveness

Ethics and Conduct

Data ethics, privacy and responsible analytics
Professional ethics and duty of care
Setting goals, roles and accountability
Ethics and responsible leadership
Professional standards and ethics (CIPS)
Ethics and professional conduct in security
Monitoring, evaluation and learning for accountability
Ethics and treating customers fairly in insurance
Ethical principles and codes of practice
Sustaining ethical, effective practice
Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
Driving effective, ethical outcomes
Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
Accountability and follow-through
Ethics of technology in practice

Leadership and Command

Omnichannel and channel management
Queue management and service flow
Front-office and reception management
Relationship management and retention
Performance management in service
Handling escalations as a leader
Team leadership in customer service
Teller operations, cash handling and vault management
Operational efficiency and channel management
Team leadership in banking operations
Reconciliation and nostro/vostro management
Disruption management: delays, claims and recovery
Energy efficiency and demand management
Range planning and category management
Ground control and strata management

Professional Leadership Practice

Key account management strategy
Renewals and churn management
Field sales and territory management
Tender and bid management
Capacity and performance management
Implementation planning and risk management
Enterprise risk management in banks
Sanctions screening and PEP management
Relationship management and cross-selling
Sales performance and pipeline management
Liquidity and funding management
Revenue management and yield
Investment portfolio management
Thought leadership
Key account management and account planning

Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

The Hierarchy of Control — applied to your own work
Risk Assessment in Practice — applied to your own work
High-Risk Work and Contractors — applied to your own work
Health, Exposure and Wellbeing — applied to your own work
Incidents and Emergencies — applied to your own work
Legal Duties and Environment — applied to your own work

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CHMP certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with ISO 45001, OSHA and recognised occupational health and safety standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CHMP?

This certification is ideal for Safety and Health Officers, HSE Managers and Supervisors, Site and Operations Safety Leads and Risk and Compliance Practitioners, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in occupational safety, health and workplace wellbeing with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CHMP certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 8 Week and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CHMP internationally recognised?

What is the cost of the CHMP certification?

The Certified Hazard Mitigation Planner is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 349 and Live Virtual at USD 549. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CHMP certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CHMP?

The Certified Hazard Mitigation Planner is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CHMP?

The Certified Hazard Mitigation Planner carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CHMP while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CHMP?

Graduates progress towards senior HSE and safety-leadership roles. The CHMP strengthens your expertise in occupational safety, health and workplace wellbeing and positions you for advancement across construction, energy, manufacturing, marine and industrial operations.

Certified Hazard Mitigation Planner

Certified Hazard Mitigation Planner

Certification at a Glance

Who Should Enrol?

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Core Competencies You Will Develop

Programme Modules

What You Will Achieve

How to Get Certified

Common Questions

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