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About ERIS

The Energy Risk and Insurance Specialist (ERIS®) continuing education program provides insurance agents, brokers, customer service representatives, underwriters, adjusters, and in-house risk managers or insurance buyers with specialized expertise in energy insurance and risk management. Completing the ERIS certification will ensure that you understand the most important insurance needs of the energy industry.

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Earn Your ERIS Certification

At only $149 per course, you can take all five core courses and earn your ERIS certification for only $745! Insurance CE Credit is available for $17 more per course.

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Share your achievement and provide verification of your specialized knowledge with an IRMI Certification Digital Badge. IRMI has partnered with Credly Acclaim, the largest and most-connected digital credential network with best-in-class security and privacy features. After earning your credentials, you can display your digital badge on your LinkedIn profile, in your email signature, and on a variety of social media and digital platforms.

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Benefits of ERIS Certification

Credibility

With the ERIS certification behind your name, you make a statement to energy and insurance professionals that you understand the complex insurance needs of energy companies and how to meet them.

Convenience
All ERIS core and renewal courses can be completed 100% online at your own pace. IRMI has partnered with WebCE to create the IRMI Learning Center, a user-friendly platform backed by WebCE's award-winning US-based live customer support.

Visibility
Once you earn your certification, you will appear in the IRMI Certification Directory—a powerful online tool that allows insurance buyers or employers to find someone with specialized risk management expertise by certification, location, or name—providing maximum exposure for the credentials you’ve earned.

More Sales
Retail insurance agents and brokers will parlay their increased expertise, confidence, and credibility into more sales to energy accounts.

Better Coverage
Knowledge gained from the ERIS courses will help you eliminate dangerous coverage gaps and provide better protection for your employer or your clients.

Career Advancement
The specialized knowledge and credibility you gain from the ERIS program will make you a more valuable employee and help you achieve your career goals

Networking
An ERIS certification provides you access to fellow industry experts through exclusive online communities.

CE Credit
Insurance agents or brokers can simultaneously get convenient state insurance CE credit and an insurance industry certification at a very low cost.


ERIS Certification Core Courses

While the energy industry has most of the same exposures as all industries, it also faces some unique exposures. This course will examine each of the three coverage parts of the commercial general liability (CGL) policy with a focus on the insuring agreements, key policy provisions and conditions, and exclusions. It will then review the various endorsements that can be attached to the policy to broaden or restrict the scope of coverage or otherwise alter the basic policy terms and conditions. The course concludes with a brief discussion of umbrella liability insurance for energy industry companies.

Enroll in the Commercial Liability Insurance for the Energy Industry course

The agreements between the parties involved in energy projects are various contract documents. These contracts impose duties, obligations, and liabilities on various parties. Although careful attention may be paid to the operational issues these contracts address, often little or no attention is given to their risk and insurance implications. This course examines the structure of contracting relationships and the key provisions in which responsibilities and liabilities are allocated to the contracting parties and suggests methods to equitably allocate these liabilities.

Enroll in the Contractual Risk Transfer in Energy course

As long as there are oil wells there is a potential for well control problems. This course provides a review of the physical characteristics of a well, emphasizing the factors that can lead to a blowout and the features designed to prevent or control blowouts. Fortunately, insurance exists to address the monumental expenses that result when a blowout or other well control event occurs.

The course provides an in-depth review of the types of the insurance coverage available to cover the costs and expenses associate with a well blowout, including a review of the three main insuring agreements, typical conditions and warranties, and additional coverages often available by endorsement to expand or limit coverage. The course concludes with a case study of an actual blowout.

Enroll in the Control of Well/Operators Extra Expense Risks and Insurance course

The key to designing an appropriate insurance program is understanding the industry, how it works, and the unique vocabulary that goes with it. This course provides an overview of the oil and gas industry and its risks, focusing on the nuts-and-bolts operational aspects and addressing risk management concerns relating to the various processes. The course takes a sequential approach from how petroleum originates and where petroleum deposits exist through the exploration process, the completion process, the transportation process, and the refining process. At each stage the key hazards and risks associated with the process are identified.

Enroll in the Understanding the Oil and Gas Industry and Its Risks course

For drilling, servicing, and other contractors, the costs of on-the-job injuries and illnesses are the most significant component of total cost of risk. While much of the cost is driven by state workers compensation laws, many energy companies have operations on or near bodies of water. In those situations, their obligations to provide compensation for injured workers may stem from federal laws such as the federal Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, the Jones Act, or general maritime law, in addition to traditional workers compensation laws. This course discusses the interaction of workers compensation insurance with state and federal workers compensation laws and how changes in these Acts and regulations have profound effects on the insurance line.   

Enroll in the Workers Comp and Maritime Liability for the Energy Industry course

Earn, Renew, and Promote Your ERIS Certification

Take Core Courses
To Earn Your ERIS

To earn your ERIS certification, you must complete five required courses, which can be taken in any order. You can take them online, at an IRMI Energy Risk and Insurance Conference (ERIC), or a combination of both.

Annual Reaccreditation
Requirements

To renew your ERIS certification, you must complete 6 hours of approved continuing education credit each year. You can take an online reaccreditation course, attend an IRMI ERIC, or attend an approved educational event.

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ERIS Certification

Put your credentials to work for you by promoting your distinguished accomplishment with our ERIS Digital Toolkit.

IRMI Certification Directory

Need another reason to earn your ERIS certification? 

Once you earn your certification, you will appear in the IRMI Certification Directory—a powerful online tool that allows insurance buyers or employers to find someone with specialized risk management expertise by certification, location, or name—providing maximum exposure for the credentials you’ve earned.

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Save When You Earn More Than One Certification

Take advantage of our reciprocity discount program to earn additional credentials, renew your certification, and save money. Learn how on our FAQ page and start earning multiple certifications today.

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IRMI Energy Risk and Insurance Conference (ERIC)

IRMI ERIC is the premier conference for insurance and risk management professionals who specialize in the unique exposures and nuanced coverage needs of energy businesses.

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