Product Stewardship for Sustainability

Product Stewardship for Sustainability, Certificate

NOTE: This certificate program may be completed entirely online!

OVERVIEW

The Certificate in Product Stewardship for Sustainability enables professionals to promote responsible design, development, and management of products throughout their life cycle. This certificate program addresses the need for professionals trained in minimizing the health, safety, environmental, and social impacts of a product and its packaging throughout all lifecycle stages, while also maximizing economic benefits. Individuals who complete a Certificate in Product Stewardship for Sustainability will gain competencies that will enable them to manage products and their packaging throughout all lifecycle stages while minimizing human health and ecological impacts.

The certificate program is designed for junior, mid-level, and executive-level professionals (non-degree students) desiring to expand their knowledge of product stewardship to advance their careers. These include working professionals who are already active in the product stewardship field, and those from a wide range of other backgrounds, including environmental health, regulatory compliance, industrial hygiene, occupational health and safety, sustainability, product development, supply chain, and law. The certificate program is also open to masters and doctoral degree students and post-doctoral trainees at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Public Health and the Whiting School of Engineering.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Students completing the certificate program will be able to:

1. Describe the core functions, values and principles of environmental and occupational public health.
2. Identify and characterize product hazards, exposures, and risk through inherent product characteristics, uses, and misuses of products.
3. Identify points in the production and distribution processes that create risks for workers, communities, consumers, and the ecosystem.
4. Select and apply appropriate frameworks to analyze product risks to humans and the environment throughout product supply chains and product lifecycles.
5. Determine and document appropriate and effective systems for ongoing assessment and management of product and business risk.
6. Identify and evaluate current and emerging societal issues, regulatory requirements, and voluntary frameworks that may affect products throughout their lifecycle.
7. Assess risk throughout the products' movement within the supply chain (product trail) to determine if appropriate stewardship systems and risk management activities are in place.
8. Assess and apply best practices to improve product sustainability and competitive advantage while minimizing business risk through management and product development.

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