Maintaining Your Certification

Like most professional certification bodies, the International Disability Management Standards Council requires you to maintain your certification annually.  Each year, you must:

• Show proof that you participated in a minimum of 20 credit hours of continuing education each year (see conferences and workshops for events sponsored by NIDMAR); proof may be submitted every second year, i.e. 40 hours every second year, and must include credits related directly to disability management including certificates or other signed documentation
• Demonstrate that you have been working in the field of disability management with the submission of letter(s) of attestation completed by supervisor on employer letterhead
• Complete and sign a statement agreeing to uphold the Ethical Standards and Professional Conduct
• Pay an annual membership fee.

I’ve been doing disability management for a long, long time. I wondered how well I knew this business. To me, it was like a measuring stick, to test whether I knew what I was talking about. I did it for myself. Robert Rodger, CRTWC, Co-chair, Health and Welfare Committee, Canfor-Northwood Pulpmill, CEP 603, Prince George, BC