Certified Professional in Healthcare Facility Safety

📘Program Overview

The Certified Professional in Healthcare Facility Safety (CPHFS) program provides expansive coverage for professionals serving in safety, occupational health, hazardous-materials management, quality improvement, and risk-management roles.

The program emphasizes hazard control, compliance, standards, and accreditation, with additional focus on performance improvement, risk management, organizational culture, behavioral safety, root cause analysis, and current OSHA and Joint Commission requirements — supported by real-world examples, exercises, case studies, and discussion questions.

Each module delivers core content for anyone tasked with hazard control and safety management, and the program includes more than thirty safety checklists covering a variety of hazards found in healthcare and long-term-care facilities.

🎯Program Rationale

• Facility safety protects patients, staff, and visitors from preventable harm.
• Healthcare environments contain diverse and serious hazards.
• Regulatory and accreditation requirements are demanding and evolving.
• Behavioral safety and culture determine real-world compliance.

👥Target Audience

• Facility and environmental-safety officers
• Occupational-health and hazmat professionals
• Quality, risk, and emergency-preparedness staff
• Engineering and operations personnel
• Leaders responsible for a safe care environment

✅Program Objectives

• Establish and lead a healthcare facility-safety program.
• Identify, assess, and control facility hazards.
• Plan and lead disaster and emergency preparedness.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, Joint Commission, and related standards.
• Apply quality-improvement tools to safety management.

🏆Learning Outcomes

• Implement hazard-control management across the facility.
• Lead readiness for fires, chemical/radiation events, and natural disasters.
• Manage area-specific safety (laboratory, pharmacy, clinical).
• Coordinate emergency communications and workforce readiness.
• Apply checklists and audits to sustain safety performance.

📚Program Structure

• Module 1: Facility Safety & Hazard Control
• Facility safety overview
• Understanding hazards
• Hazard-control management
• Quality-improvement tools and strategies
• Module 2: Disaster & Emergency Preparedness
• Disaster preparedness
• Hospital-based readiness
• Workforce readiness and willingness to respond
• Emergency communications
• Module 3: Fire & Area-Specific Safety
• Fire safety
• Laboratory safety
• Pharmacy safety
• Nursing and clinical-area safety
• Module 4: Environmental & Special Hazards
• Chemical and radiation events
• Natural disasters
• Information- and communication-technology emergencies
• Managing waste

📝Assessment & Certification

• Module knowledge checks
• Hazard-assessment and checklist exercise
• Emergency-preparedness scenario
• Final comprehensive examination

🚀Capstone / Practical Project

Develop a facility-safety improvement plan for a chosen area, including a hazard assessment, control measures, and an emergency-response checklist.

🏥Organizational Impact

• Fewer safety incidents and injuries
• Stronger emergency and disaster readiness
• Improved regulatory and accreditation compliance
• A reinforced culture of behavioral safety

📈Career Pathway

• Facility Safety Officer
• Environment of Care Coordinator
• Emergency Preparedness Specialist
• Occupational Health & Safety Lead

Exam Fee: $495