Safety Assessment Program (SAP) Training

Become a certified post-disaster building evaluator

After a disaster, communities must quickly determine whether homes, businesses, schools, and critical facilities are safe to occupy. But local jurisdictions often don’t have enough inspectors to handle the volume after a disaster.

AIA’s Safety Assessment Program (SAP) Evaluator Training prepares architects, engineers, building officials, and inspectors to step in and support disaster recovery efforts. Participants gain the knowledge and protocols needed to evaluate buildings and infrastructure following earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, wildfires, and other disasters.

You’ll gain the skills to:  

• Conduct rapid damage assessments of impacted structures
• Document damage using official assessment forms  
• Understand how SAP fits within national emergency response systems (ICS and NIMS)

Based on the State of California’s nationally recognized program, SAP training has supported thousands of safety evaluations nationwide while saving municipalities millions of dollars in recovery costs.

Training includes Applied Technology Council ATC-20: Post-earthquake Safety Evaluation of Buildings and ATC-45: Safety Evaluation of Buildings after Wind Storms and Floods.

Get SAP certified

Already a licensed SAP evaluator? Keep your certification up to date with this refresher course.