3M Science of Safety Education and Training

Education & Training

Helping safety managers, business owners and workers stay connected, compliant and safe through a broad array of training and educational experiences.

What is the 3M Science of Safety?

Science of Safety Overview

Not all training is created equal.

In a rapidly evolving business and occupational health and safety landscape, one thing remains the same: the need for effective training and education to help you create and maintain a healthy and safe workplace. Whether you’re part of a large, complex international company, or a small locally owned business, the world moves fast. You need a trusted, reliable resource that you can turn to for help with critical health and safety knowledge.

That’s where 3M thrives. With over 45 years in the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) business, our experience has helped us create a wide variety of thorough educational content for your use.

Online, at our site, or at your facility, we can deliver a broad array of training and educational experiences to help safety managers, business owners and workers stay connected, compliant, and most importantly, safe.

How does that take shape?

It all starts with people—our dedicated team of technical service employees and training professionals, located in over 70 countries around the world. Many of our Technical Service employees are Certified Industrial Hygienists (CIHs) or Certified Safety Professionals (CSPs), and they’re actively involved in professional safety organizations such as ASSE (American Society of Safety Engineers) and AIHA (American Industrial Hygiene Association).

In addition, we employ a veteran team of fall protection instructors with experience in everything from fire service, search and rescue and occupational health and safety, to law enforcement and military service. Combined, our technical team is over 300 professionals are knowledgeable in a variety of diverse industries and applications such as heavy manufacturing, oil and gas, transportation, construction, utilities, food and beverage, mining and welding. With their deep experience, they’re able to craft each learning experience and its content for your company and your workers.

Our site or yours, training delivered

Where you want it...

To help meet your need for live in-person education, we have safety training facilities spread out around the globe. We offer a broad curriculum of courses in our training centers, from fall protection and rescue to specialty courses for particular trades or industries. Many facilities also offer on-site training options connecting our experienced trainers and comprehensive programs right to your facility. At our site or yours, our skilled technical team delivers training focused on providing a quality experience, learner engagement, knowledge retention and practical hands-on exercises.
…and in the way you need it.
We know that every business and every worker has different needs, so we don’t stop there. We offer a broad variety of remote and mobile learning options too:

Videos

Traveling 3M Safety Roadshows

Technical documents and white papers

Live and recorded webinars

Tools/applications

eLearning courses

Demonstration trucks and more

Helping you build your expertise.

Of course, our wide variety of platforms is matched only by the subject matter that we can cover. Our core strength is fundamental health and safety topics relevant to PPE solutions in the workplace, helping your team learn about topics such as:
- Occupational risk management
- Hazard awareness
- Exposure assessment
- Health and safety program management
- Hazard control
- PPE selection, use & maintenance
- Fit testing, regulations and standards
Our team has created learning materials to help you build your expertise as well as train and educate your workers.

Take Action

Advancing the science of safety means keeping up-to-date by using all types of educational resources to help keep you and your workers healthy, safe and compliant. To learn more about how you can further your effort with 3M’s training and education offering, click on the buttons to the right.