The Science Safety Teaching Standard: the written standard behind every course we sell
Most safety training is rules to read and a quiz to pass. People who have read a rule do not always act on it, and in a lab the gap between the two is where injuries happen. Our learners have to act on what they learn, at work, on a real day.
So we wrote down how a course has to teach before it may carry our name. Every Science Safety course, module and certificate is built to that standard, SSTS, and that is how you can hold us to what we promise.
Look for the mark
Every course built to the Science Safety Teaching Standard carries it, on the catalog and on the certificate.
What the standard means for you
The standard is ours. The promise is to you, whether you run a school science department or an industrial laboratory.
You learn by deciding
Real situations, set in a school and in a workplace. You decide before you are shown the answer.
You leave with the work done
Every module produces something you use on the job: a plan, a register, a schedule, a checklist.
You can prove it
Every module ends in its own certificate, and anyone you show it to can verify it.
You can trust the rule
Every regulation cited to its exact section, at its current edition, from the body that governs it.
Every course promises
- You know at the start what you will be able to do at the end
- Built for education and for industry, side by side
- Written to a stated reading level for its audience
- Accessible: keyboard, screen reader, captions, described images
- Pass every module at 80% to earn its certificate
- A person answers your question within one business day
What SSTS is aligned to
Our standard is written from what works in our courses and from published research, and it is set against four recognised frameworks.
Merrill's First Principles of Instruction
People learn by solving real problems, being shown a skill, applying it, and taking it into their own world.
Gagné's Nine Events of Instruction
The order in which a lesson gains attention, teaches, has you perform, gives feedback and checks.
Bloom's Taxonomy
The levels of thinking a course reaches, from remembering to creating.
Quality Matters
The rubric more than 1,500 colleges and universities use to judge online courses; its professional-education rubric is written for training like ours.
Our courses are built to these standards. They have not been submitted for Quality Matters certification; we say “built to”, not “certified”.
Built to SSTS
SSTS · BUILT TO THE STANDARD on every product card, every course introduction and every certificate. Every course in the Safer Catalog.
The Science of being "SAFER"
Safer Science, Safer STEM, Safer CTE, Safer Art, Safer Cyber, Safer Labs. Every one built to the Science Safety Teaching Standard.