Specialize Your Expertise: Alliance Programs for Construction, Restaurant, Workers Compensation, Cyber, and Environmental Risks
Do you work with contractors or restaurants? Maybe Workers Compensation is your field? Or maybe you have clients or an employer with cyber or environmental risks that you help manage? The Risk & Insurance Education Alliance created certifications designed around your needs.
How Can I Learn More About Contractor Risks and Their Management?
The 16-hour Contractors Risk Professional (Contractors RiskPRO) course, launched in 2025, furnishes essential knowledge of the risk exposures contractors face. Participants examine contract provisions, property exposures and coverages, liability issues, and the distinctions among named insureds, automatic insureds, and non-automatic insureds. The course equips insurance professionals with practical knowledge to better advise and protect their contractor clients.
Offered as an online, instructor-led webinar, the course includes a final exam. Continuing education (CE) credit varies by state. For more information or to register, click on Contractors RiskPRO.
Contractors Current Trends is an 8-hour webinar that allows Contractors RiskPRO certificate holders to earn annual update credit while exploring current construction-related risks and emerging coverage issues. Topics include construction risks not covered by the commercial general liability policy, contractors’ environmental insurance and risk management, and concrete challenges facing contractors today.
The course is offered as an online, instructor-led webinar. There is no final exam, and continuing education credit varies by state. Click Contractors Current Trends for more information or to register.
How Can I Learn More About Restaurant Risks and Their Management?
The Restaurant Risk Professional (Restaurant RiskPRO) certification, available since 2025, provides practical, restaurant-specific expertise to help insurance professionals better advise and protect clients in the food and beverage industry. Topics include contract analysis for the food and beverage industry, commercial property coverages, casualty coverages for restaurants, and cyber and employment practices liability insurance protections.
The 16-hour course is offered over two days as an online, instructor-led webinar. Continuing education credit varies by state. To register or learn more, click Restaurant RiskPRO.
Restaurant Current Trends is an 8-hour webinar that allows Restaurant RiskPRO certificate holders to earn annual update credit while investigating emerging issues affecting restaurant operations. Participants examine hospitality risks, environmental exposures, claims trends, and practical risk management strategies relevant to restaurants and food service businesses.
No final exam is required, and continuing education credit varies by state. Find additional information and registration information by clicking on Restaurant Current Trends.
How Can I Learn More About Workers Compensation?
The 16-hour Workers Compensation Risk Professional (Workers Compensation RiskPRO) certification equips insurance professionals to proficiently navigate Workers Compensation from policy structure to real-life claim outcomes. Participants examine coverage, benefits, and claims management processes, along with risk management, loss control, legal and regulatory considerations, and advanced Workers Compensation topics.
Like the other RiskPRO certifications, this course is offered as an online, instructor-led webinar. Requirements include passing a proctored final exam. Continuing education credit varies by state. Click Workers Compensation RiskPRO to register or learn more about the course.
An 8-hour Workers Compensation update course will be released in time for certificate holders to satisfy annual update requirements.
How Can I Learn More About Cyber Risks and Their Management?
The Cyber Risk Professional (Cyber RiskPRO) certification is the newest RiskPRO, available beginning in September 2026. The program provides an end-to-end examination of cyber risk, helping insurance professionals understand how cyber risks affect organizations and how insurance, cybersecurity practices, compliance, loss control, and risk management work together to address those exposures.
The course is delivered as an online, instructor-led webinar. Participants must pass a proctored final exam to earn the Cyber RiskPRO certification. Continuing education credit is available in many states and varies by jurisdiction. For more information or to register, click Cyber RiskPRO.
An 8-hour Cyber Risk Trends update course will be released next year, allowing certificate holders to earn annual update credit and maintain their certification.
How Can I Learn More About Environmental Risks and Their Management?
While not part of the RiskPRO series, the Alliance offers the Certified Environmental Strategist (eS) certificate program, designed to help participants develop environmental awareness and better understand how businesses manage and transfer environmental exposures. Offered as a self-paced online course, the program covers transferring environmental exposures, creating a quality submission, managing environmental exposures, and environmental risk assessments.
The course includes interactive quizzes and a review test. Continuing education credit is available in many states and varies by jurisdiction. Unlike the RiskPRO certifications, maintaining the eS certificate does not currently require annual update coursework. To learn more or register, click Environmental Strategist.
Summary
Insurance professionals face increasingly specialized risks across industries and coverage lines. Alliance certification programs provide focused education designed to build expertise, strengthen client relationships, and support professionalism. By combining practical instruction with specialized knowledge, these programs help participants better identify exposures, evaluate coverage solutions, and deliver greater value to the clients and organizations they serve.