ASSP Z490.1-2024 ✓ Most Recent

This standard defines accepted criteria for effective occupational safety, health, and environmental (SH&E) training and learning systems. This standard provides flexibility in how to conform to the criteria in a manner appropriate to each organization and commensurate with its SH&E competency requirements.

The most significant changes, modifications, additions, and enhancements to the ANSI/ASSP Z490.1-2024 standard include:

• Merging of ANSI/ASSP Z490.1-2016, Criteria for Accepted Practices in Safety, Health, and Environmental Training, and ANSI/ASSP Z490.2-2019, Accepted Practices for E-Learning in Safety, Health, and Environmental Training, into one comprehensive SH&E training standard. (The Z490.2 will no longer be a separate, standalone document.)
• Creation of a new section on organizational responsibilities with criteria for providing resources for SH&E learning management systems to ensure competency.
• Expanded criteria about the roles and functions of training providers.
• Enhanced alignment of the standard with the analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate (ADDIE) model for instructional systems design.
• Enhanced language for learner-focused engagement, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Revised Appendix A which provides explanatory text that aligns with the revised sections of the standard to enhance understanding of requirements and effective accepted practices.