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Certified Safety & Health Expert Witness Specialist (CEWS)

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Certified Safety & Health Expert Witness Specialist (CEWS)

About This Course

This course provides an introduction to how to start and run a successful Expert Witness Practice. This three-day course is an intensive, content-rich workshop designed to show safety professionals how to start, build, and run a successful expert witness practice. It is appropriate for safety, health, and environmental professionals, including prospective and novice expert witnesses.

Students will learn from an experienced faculty, in a step-by-step fashion, how to start, build, and run a successful and ethical expert witness practice. The course emphasizes practical guidance and ethical considerations, ensuring participants gain the knowledge and confidence to establish and maintain a professional expert witness practice.

What You'll Learn

The role of expert witnesses in civil litigation. Who is considered an expert? How to properly define your area(s) of expertise and practice areas, education, and degrees. How to draft a curriculum vitae appropriate for expert witness work. How to get cases and market your business. How to avoid ethical problems and maintain your integrity. Qualifying the expert. Whether your attorney wants you to write a report or not. Daubert & Frye decisions. How to draft a retention agreement to protect your rights. How to form defensible opinions. The testifying skills and techniques attorneys are looking for. Techniques for maintaining your independence and objectivity. Ten golden rules to remember and ten mistakes to avoid. How to build a tremendous reputation. Ethics.

Requirements

none

Who This Course Is For

Construction Managers, Building Contractors, Safety Supervisors, Building Inspectors, Training Managers, and Industrial Hygienists are the primary professionals involved in overseeing and ensuring safety, compliance, and effective operations in construction and related work environments.