FOUNDATION
AIPC Certified Risk Management – Foundation
A structured external benchmark for people who identify, evaluate, treat or oversee organizational risk.
ISO 31000 — Risk managementAIPC Professional Certification Portfolio
One external benchmark across every cohort.
AIPC coordinates access, assessment and individual decisions for defined cohorts without tying certification to an AIPC course.
What Foundation means
A Foundation credential confirms structured professional knowledge and the ability to apply it in an independent, standardized assessment. It does not by itself establish professional experience or observed job performance.
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Professional Foundations
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FOUNDATION
AIPC Certified Project Management – Foundation
An independent benchmark of project-management fundamentals across predictive, adaptive and hybrid environments.
ISO 21502 — Guidance on project managementFOUNDATION
AIPC Certified Process Improvement – Foundation
Foundational capability to understand a process, diagnose performance constraints and select reasonable improvement actions.
Recognized cross-method principles of process analysis and improvementFOUNDATION
AIPC Certified Technical Quality Management & Improvement – Foundation
A cross-functional baseline for professionals who manage the controls used to assure, control and improve quality.
ISO 9001 as the management-system backbone, complemented by recognized technical referencesFOUNDATION
AIPC Certified Technical Safety Management – Foundation
A baseline for people responsible for requiring, checking and controlling safeguards around hazardous work.
ISO 45001 management principles plus a curated framework of recognized technical referencesFOUNDATION
AIPC Certified Technical Environmental Management – Foundation
A cross-functional baseline for managing environmental operational controls in facilities and operations.
ISO 14001 as the management backbone, complemented by recognized technical referencesFOUNDATION
AIPC Certified Root Cause Analysis – Foundation
Applied understanding of how to investigate problems, incidents, failures and nonconformities without forcing every case into one technique.
IEC 62740 as a methodological reference, subject to applicable intellectual-property controlsFOUNDATION
AIPC Certified Cybersecurity Risk Governance – Foundation
Cybersecurity risk from the perspective of business governance, accountability and management oversight.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0FOUNDATION
AIPC Certified Sustainability & ESG Management – Foundation
A foundational management baseline for organizing, measuring and communicating sustainability and ESG matters.
Curated reference framework drawing on ISO IWA 48, IFRS/ISSB, GRI and other recognized sources02
Management Systems Auditing
Auditor Track
Audit experience requires more evidence than a knowledge examination.
The scope of each credential must match the requirements and evidence actually verified by AIPC.
LEAD AUDITOR
AIPC Certified Lead Auditor – ISO 9001
A credential for professionals who must demonstrate knowledge of ISO 9001, auditing judgment and the evidence required for the applicable Lead Auditor claim.
ISO 9001 and management-systems auditing principles based primarily on ISO 19011LEAD AUDITOR
AIPC Certified Lead Auditor – ISO 14001
A credential for professionals who must demonstrate knowledge of ISO 14001, auditing judgment and the evidence required for the applicable Lead Auditor claim.
ISO 14001 and management-systems auditing principles based primarily on ISO 19011LEAD AUDITOR
AIPC Certified Lead Auditor – ISO 45001
A credential for professionals who must demonstrate knowledge of ISO 45001, auditing judgment and the evidence required for the applicable Lead Auditor claim.
ISO 45001 and management-systems auditing principles based primarily on ISO 19011LEAD AUDITOR
AIPC Certified Lead Auditor – ISO 50001
A credential for professionals who must demonstrate knowledge of ISO 50001, auditing judgment and the evidence required for the applicable Lead Auditor claim.
ISO 50001 and management-systems auditing principles based primarily on ISO 19011Applicable requirements and the evidence to be reviewed are disclosed before enrollment. AIPC does not present a credential as proof of audit experience or audit leadership unless that evidence has been verified.
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