Keep Current in your Profession - Maintain Your Credential!

The Institute of Hazardous Materials Management (IHMM) requires that the CHMM certification be renewed every five (5) years to ensure that certificants retain their currency with the advancements in technology and changes in compliance requirements that occur frequently in hazardous materials management and related fields. To be an effective CHMM, you need to stay current on developments in the industry, and remain competent in the knowledge, skills and abilities you demonstrated by earning the CHMM designation. Maintaining the highest professional standards by continuing to uphold and abide by the Code of Ethics is also a requirement for recertification.

CHMMs must earn a total of 200 certification maintenance points (CMPs) during a 5-year cycle to qualify for recertification. Certification Maintenance Points (CMPs) must be claimed in accordance with the guidelines in the CHMM Recertification Manual, and shown to be relevant to an area of the Table of Specifications (Blueprint) for the Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) Examination.

Submission Requirements and Procedures - IHMM implements audit review program for 2010

Only selected CHMMs will need to submit supporting documentation along with their Application for Recertification. Those CHMMs who are selected for audit will be notified after receipt of their Application for Recertification, and will be required to submit full documentation for all claimed activities. CHMMs that are not selected for an audit will not be required to submit full documentation, but should maintain copies of all supporting documentation. IHMM reserves the right to request documentation from any certificant.

2010 Recertification Submission Schedule

All CHMMs who were certified or last recertified in 2004 are due to submit their application for recertification based on the five (5) year cycle of 2005-2009 ONLY to the Institute office during 2010 according to the schedule below. Once your application is received in the IHMM office, please allow us approximately four (4) weeks for review of the materials submitted.

All applicants for recertification must submit the following:

• A completed, signed, and dated application for recertification;
• A non-refundable $175 recertification fee;
• A signed and dated CHMM Recertification Process Consent Statement; and,
• A signed and dated CHMM Code of Ethics.

For those CHMMs who find they are unable to meet the requirements of recertification by submission, we offer the option of taking the CHMM exam. The $300 examination fee must be submitted to the IHMM office by your submission deadline date.