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National Cannabis Risk Management Academy

Professional Cannabis Risk Manager Designation (PCRM™)
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Cannabis Occupational Safety & Health

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Cannabis Product Safety

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Cannabis Talent Optimization

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Cannabis Compliance

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Medical Cannabis

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Cannabis Risk Management

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Professional Cannabis Risk Manager Certification

NCRM Academy offers the Professional Cannabis Risk Manager Certification online. Covering a range of subjects such as occupational safety & health, compliance, medical cannabis, and talent optimization, our certification prepares students for the many risks of cannabis operations. Instructed by subject matter experts that are recognized and respected in their particular fields and the cannabis industry.
 
If you are a cannabis professional, or an aspiring professional, navigating your way into or through the industry, adding this designation can significantly boost your career prospects. Becoming a Professional Cannabis Risk Manager – commonly known as a PCRM – is a worthwhile goal as you plan your career.
 
Whether you are an experienced cannabis operator, compliance professional, safety professional, insurance broker, or if you are just beginning your career being a PCRM will make you stand out, in a crowded industry, and show your breadth and depth of knowledge in managing the numerous risks found in cannabis operations. Separate yourself from the crowd and show your current or future employer you are dedicated to keeping cannabis businesses safe and successful.
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 *Coming 2023

NCRM Academy offerings are designed to keep members up to date on relevant topics and provide insights that can be applied to your cannabis business. With new courses being developed regularly at the direction of our members, our goal is to provide risk education to cannabis companies from experts across the industry.

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Cannabis Occupational Safety and Health 

Direct and indirect costs related to worker injury can be very expensive. Protect your most important assets, your workers, with courses designed and developed to keep workers safe.

 

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Cannabis Product Safety

Product contamination is one of the major issues in the industry and if unchecked, can be detrimental to individual businesses and the industry as a whole. These courses are designed to help keep cannabis products safe at every step of the process and ultimately deliver a safe product to the customer.

 

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Cannabis Talent Optimization

The biggest risk in the cannabis industry comes from your employees. Having the right people in the right roles can make or break your business. Low morale and disgruntled employees can post the biggest risks in the cannabis industry. These courses are designed to help organizations develop a well-balanced and high functioning team.

 

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Cannabis Compliance

The cannabis industry is especially unique with the complexity of its rules and regulations. For businesses to succeed in this industry, they must adhere to complex and sometimes confusing rules that are ever-changing. These courses were developed to give you both a broad and specific understanding of the regulators and rules governing the industry.

 

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Medical Cannabis

One of the greatest tragedies of prohibition is that benefits of cannabis have not been understood by science. Advent Academy and The Doctors Knox have developed world class medical courses to inform everyone from budtenders to doctors on the benefits of cannabinoids and the medical uses of this plant.

 

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Cannabis Risk Management

Understanding the fundamentals of risk management and insurance as they pertain to the cannabis industry is imperative to establish a sustainable business. These courses are developed to give operators, consultants, and risk managers the skills to mitigate risk in this industry. These courses are a requirement in completing your Risk Management Certification.

 

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Cannabis Sanitation and Hygiene

Businesses across the seed-to-sale spectrum are painfully aware that the rapidly growing market for quality cannabis products presents both immense opportunities AND increased operational challenges. This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of contamination controls for:

  • Grow room sanitation
  • Cannabis facility disinfection for cultivation, processing, manufacturing and retail operations.
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Intro to Occupational Safety and Health

Cannabis cultivators and distributors are responsible for providing employees with a safe and healthy work environment. In this course, you will learn the basic OSHA regulations and how to build occupational safety and health programs.

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Biological and Chemical Hazards

Rapid growth of a new industry brings health and safety concerns for a workforce with a significant influx of new workers. This course is designed to inform workers in the cannabis industry of the common biological and chemical hazards found in the workplace.

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Physical Hazards

This course is designed to inform workers in the cannabis industry of the common physical hazards found in the workplace.

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Safety & Health Plans

This course is intended to help assist employers in the marijuana industry build occupational safety and health programs.

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Cannabis 6S

This course is designed to educate workers on a wide variety of tools that help eliminate waste and identify root causes of issues. Helping organizations and businesses be the best in their industry and deliver superior value to their customers.

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Introduction to Cannabis Ergonomics

At the NCRMA, our view on ergonomic risks as a priority. We support businesses and their employees by helping them create best practices and safe workplaces. This course is designed to educate employers and their valued employees on;

  • Injuries associated with ergonomic hazards from repetitive motions
  • Identify hazard controls and ergonomic processes for operations
  • Develop optimal workflows
  • Introduce best practices and mitigation strategies for ergonomic risks in the cannabis industry.
  • Worker’s Rights
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Lift like a PRO

This course will focus on practices with biomechanical analytics to prevent injuries while lifting in a cannabis work environment – taught by Dr. Hughes.

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Prune like a PRO

This course will focus practices with biomechanical analytics to avoid hazards and injuries while cannabis pruning – taught by Dr. Hughes.

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Trim like A PRO

This course will focus practices with biomechanical analytics to avoid hazards and injuries while trimming cannabis – taught by Dr. Hughes

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Cannabis Microbiology and Pathology

This introductory course covers: Cannabis Microbiological Risk, the sources and types of Microbiological risk. It also covers how to be proactive by utilizing risk-specific control.

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Cannabis Contaminants

This introductory course covers: Common contaminants of cannabis, sources of contamination, cannabis specific risks, regulations, and quality management systems.

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Recall and CAPA Planning

In the course we, will shed some light on the value of a CAPA program and why many states are making them mandatory for cannabis businesses.

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Design: Risk Tolerance Leaders in a Risk Adverse World
(Pre-requisite to Hire and Inspire)

Learn how cannabis owners and operators are using Team Discovery to assess their team’s strategic goals and its collective behavioral identity (or “Team Type”) side-by-side — so they can visualize where the team is suited to succeed and where they may need to stretch. This course will give you an overview of how to use the Predictive Index to understand a Team’s dynamic, compare them to its mission, and provide actions that will help that Team achieve their mission.

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Hire and Inspire: Retaining and Recruiting in the Weeds
Combatting 60% Turnover Rate with a New Discipline

Talent optimization is a four-part organizational framework you can use to empower your people to carry out your business strategy—and achieve optimal results. It is Moneyball for business. Use objective, scientific people data to gain next-level insights into your talent and set them up for success. Have you ever had a job that didn’t play to your strengths? Been on a team where you just didn’t “fit” the culture? Imagine if you could avoid those situations—for yourself, for future hires, for team members—and reap the benefits. With over 60% turnover industry wide, retention represents one of the greatest threats to your bottom line. This course will walk you through how to identify instant insights on how your candidate matches the job. Understand your candidates far beyond what’s on their resume.

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Preparing for Compliance

In this course, you will get in-depth overview of the regulatory framework that is necessary to succeed in the regulated cannabis industry. Written by industry professionals, you’ll gain the knowledge you need to understand your state’s compliance regulations. You’ll learn who your state regulatory authority is, along with employee requirements, facility requirements, lab testing, packaging best practices and transporting.

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Introduction to Dispensary Compliance

Introduction to Dispensary Compliance and Best Practices. In this course, you will get in-depth overview of the regulatory framework that is necessary to succeed in the regulated cannabis industry. Written by industry professionals, you’ll gain the knowledge you need to understand your state’s compliance regulations. You’ll learn who your state regulatory authority is, along with employee requirements, facility requirements, lab testing, packaging best practices and transporting.

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Introduction to Cultivation Compliance

In this course, you will get in-depth overview of the regulatory framework that is necessary to succeed in the regulated cannabis industry. Written by industry professionals, you’ll gain the knowledge you need to understand your state’s compliance regulations. You’ll learn who your state regulatory authority is, along with employee requirements, facility requirements, lab testing, packaging best practices and transporting.

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Intro to Extractions and Infused Product Manufacturing Compliance

In this course, you will begin to understand the manufacturing processes and compliance associated with each product, as well sanitation requirements, environmental controls, and important security compliance guidelines.

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Seed-to-Sale Tracking

In this course, you will be able to understand the basic lifecycle of cannabis products as seen through the software, be able to identify the basic functions of Seed to Sale Software, learn best practices for the software and how to use it as a tool to benefit your company.

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Introduction to Cannabis Medicine

This course provides important historical and contemporary context around cannabis use before diving into the fundamental scientific study of the plant and physiology of the endocannabinoid system.

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The Endocannabinoid System

As medical cannabis legalization continues to expand across the country, it is becoming more important than ever for staff working with cannabis in dispensing facilities to understand the science behind medical cannabis – and that means an understanding of the role of the endocannabinoid system (ECS) is critical. This online course will give you an in-depth knowledge of how cannabis interacts with the human body, particularly the Endocannabinoid System.

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Cannabis in Self-Directed Care

This course provides important historical and contemporary context around cannabis use before diving into the fundamental scientific study of the plant and physiology of the endocannabinoid system.

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Plant Science and Processing

This course will cover topics related to breeding, growing, and processing cannabis. It will also cover cultivation conditions, lighting requirements, drying, and curing.

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The Vital History Cannabis

This course is designed to have you think critically about past, present, and future research on the health effects of cannabis. You will learn about the history of cannabis cultivation, the legal history of cannabis or “marijuana”, and the obstacles that led to the lack of science on its medicinal use.

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Risk Management 101

This course introduces the student on how to;

  • Define risk management
  • How insurance works
  • Understand risk loss perils and hazards
  • Identifying risks, and risk management & cannabis.
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Insurance 101

This course introduces the student to the mechanics of insurance, the insurance industry, insurance policy life cycle, regulation and oversight, contract fundamentals and provisions, and cannabis insurance.

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Cannabis Governance and Management

This course identifies the common Governance and Management policies and procedures relied upon to successfully streamline Cannabis operations. Items reviewed include Human Resources, Compliance & Safety Programs; Quality, Facility and Environmental Management; Finance and Accounting Basics and Marketing in the Cannabis Industry.

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Cannabis Business Operations

This course covers the basic steps and legal considerations involved in business owners setting up a cannabis business.

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Site and Facility Evaluation & Feasibility

This course outlines the critical steps in the pre-operational planning for a new cannabis business. Such as, basic screening and assessment methodologies to avoid many of the pitfalls that are delaying and disrupting new business owners as they rush to get a foothold in the cannabis industry.

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Cannabis Security Basics

Security plans hold one of the highest point values and play a significant influence in determining whether an applicant will be granted a license. When there is a high level of competition for a limited number of licenses, having a competent security plan may make or break your chances of getting placed at the top of the list. The cannabis security course is a comprehensive guide to help you address all your security concerns in one place. It outlines how your business can mitigate risk, handle any threats or emergencies, and protect staff and assets.

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Continuity Planning for the Cannabis Industry

This course examines the importance of continuity planning for the cannabis industry, denial & myths about disasters & planning, plan development, and returning to normal operations.

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Cannabis Accounting Series: The Basics

One of the biggest risks in the cannabis industry is the management of cash and money. This course provides an overview of business basics for cannabis companies and a high-level introduction of accounting, banking, and financial controls.

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