Demonstrate

Your Knowledge

& Expertise with

AMHSA Certification

AMHSA Training and Certification builds your competence, confidence and credibility with the knowledge and skills you need to advance health, safety and environment in the workplace.

Share Your Credentials with Digital Badges!

To help you communicate your AMHSA HSE education achievements, we’ve partnered with Credly to provide you with digital versions of your credentials as you earn them. Use our verified digital badges and micro-credentials to showcase your achievements and validate your skills with an industry-recognized credential.

Each digital image contains verified metadata that describes your qualifications and the process required to earn them. Digital badges are easy to manage, verify and share online. They provide evidence of what you have done and why it’s important. Badges can be used in email signatures or digital resumes, and on social media such as LinkedIn and Facebook.

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Credly FAQs

What is Credly?

Credly is an online service for issuing and managing digital credentials across a number of industry sectors. Credly works with organizations like AMHSA to provide digital credentials to individuals around the world.

What are the advantages of a digital badge?

Using a badge to represent your credentials allows you to share your abilities online in a simple, trusted and easily verified way. Badges provide employers with proof of course completion and confirm your newly acquired skills and capabilities.

How does my certification get displayed?

Working with AMHSA, Credly translates the learning outcomes you’ve demonstrated into a badge that is issued and managed through a secure digital badging platform based on IMS Global Standards. This enables you to manage, share and verify your qualifications digitally.

What’s to keep someone else from copying my badge and using it?

Each digital badge is uniquely linked to data hosted on Credly. This link to verified data makes badges more reliable and secure than paper-based certificates. It also prevents anyone from claiming your credential, or assuming your professional identity.

How will I know when I’ve earned a badge?

Once you complete a qualified course, the AMHSA Learning Management System automatically generates a credential and alerts Credly, who in turn notifies you via email with instructions on how to claim your badge and set up your account.

How can I share my badge through Credly?

There are a number of ways you can showcase your certification. You can share your badge directly from Credly to your social media profiles on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), and Facebook. You can also include your badge in emails, embed it in a website and incorporate it into your email signature.

Is there a fee to use Credly?

No. Credly is a service provided courtesy of AMHSA free of charge to employees of member organizations.

What if I don’t want my badge to be public?

You have complete control over information that is made public. Configuring your privacy settings in Credly is quick and easy.

What labour market information can I access through Credly?

Credly tracks labour market insights that are pulled from live job requisitions. Based on your skill profile you can learn who is actively recruiting, what job titles you might be qualified for, salary ranges and more. You can search job listings and even apply for positions through Credly. Labour market insights can be accessed from your badge details page by clicking on ‘Related Jobs’, or by clicking on the skill tags assigned to your badge.

Can I export badges issued through Credly to other platforms?

Yes, you can download your badge from the ‘Share Badge’ page. Your downloaded badge contains Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) compliant metadata embedded into the image. This allows you to store your badge on other OBI-compliant badge sites.

If I have a question about Credly, who can I contact for support?

You can get in touch with an AMHSA representative directly if you have any questions:
[email protected]

Get Started!

It’s easy to start earning and using your AMHSA verified digital badges.

Learn and earn

Choose a qualified course or program, register and complete the required training.

Claim it

Once you’ve completed the course and earned a badge, you’ll receive a confirmation email from AMHSA and a notification from Credly with instructions on how to set up your account, claim your badge and share it.

Share it

Let others know about your new credential by showcasing it. You can share your digital badge on social media, via email and embedded in your resume, personal website and email signature.

Qualified AMHSA Programs

Health and Safety Auditing

Auditor Certification Program

Ideal for municipalities or employers participating in the Partnerships in Injury Reduction program have at least one certified auditor on staff. This course covers the principles and practices of health and safety management system evaluation and teaches participants how to use AMHSA’s health and safety audit tool.

The course includes live instruction, group discussion, practical exercises, and a written exam. To achieve auditor certification, participants must score a minimum of 80% on the written exam and successfully complete a qualification audit which meets quality standards and applicable timelines.

This course is recommended for managers, supervisors, foremen, joint health and safety committee members, and health and safety coordinators.

To earn a badge for this certification, the following must be completed:

Health and Safety Management System course or approved equivalency
Health and Safety Auditor course
Completion, submission and passing of a qualification audit

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Psychological Health & Safety for PEOPLE LEADERS

Certificate Program

Ideal for HR and OHS professionals, this innovative program helps managers and people leaders build the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to recognize, speak to and action workplace psychological health and safety. By starting this program, managers and people leaders are on their way to creating a better work environment for their people and better mental health for themselves.

Each program learning module consists of a series of lessons that take place in a different work environment. Throughout the program, participants act as managers in these settings and use their new-found knowledge and skills to deal with a variety of people in a range of situations.

Engaging and scenario-based online activities and assessments provide examples and check understanding, while workbook activities allow participants to apply the content to their own work life.

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Module 1

Champion Psychological Health and Safety

Module 2

Be a Psychologically Safe Leader

Module 3

Enhance Emotional Intelligence and Resillience

Module 4

Manage Workplace Mental Health Issues

Module 5

Foster a Civil and Respectful Workplace

Psychological Health & Safety for EMPLOYEES

Certificate Program

Designed for employees across all levels of the organization, this program provides practical skills and strategies for staying mentally healthy and resilient, managing stress, improving communication and interpersonal relations, enhancing work-life harmony, and avoiding burnout. It also aims to destigmatize and provide participants with a deeper understanding of common mental health issues, including their signs and symptoms and how they might impact the workplace.