Put your membership to work

White Belt: complete your first useful task

Your first outcome: finish orientation and understand what you want to do next.

1. Create your free account and open Black Belt Safety Orientation.
2. Complete the available orientation activities and save your completion record.
3. Preview a safety topic related to your work.
4. Choose your next goal: learn, research a market, teach a class, or develop a business.

Sample research note

Blue Belt: build a focused learning path

Your first outcome: complete a course relevant to your actual responsibilities.

1. Write down three tasks you perform and the hazards you need to understand.
2. Choose a relevant course in The Dojo. Review its objectives before starting.
3. Complete the lessons, knowledge checks and final quiz.
4. Save your certificate when earned. Record one question to discuss with your supervisor.
5. Choose your next course based on your work, rather than collecting unrelated certificates.

Awareness training does not by itself establish task qualification or replace employer-required practical and site-specific training.

Purple Belt: prepare an informed business conversation

Your first outcome: a one-page research brief for a market or prospective customer.

1. Choose an industry, region and service or product that fit your business.
2. Review available records and verify the company name and establishment location.
3. Record inspection dates, relevant topics, case status and source links. Separate proposed findings from final outcomes where available.
4. Write three questions about the employer’s current needs.
5. Track the next action and follow-up date. Use your plan’s available downloads and snapshots where helpful.

Useful questions: What does your current process look like? What has changed since these records? Where would additional support help?

Brown Belt: launch your first training offer

Your first outcome: a completed trainer storefront, one defined class offer, and an employer proposal you can adapt.

Instructor launch checklist

1. Define a topic within your qualifications and experience. Identify the intended learners and prerequisites.
2. Prepare your trainer profile, relevant credentials, contact method and storefront information.
3. Write measurable learning objectives and choose an appropriate delivery format.
4. Build an outline with instruction, examples, practice and assessment. Identify any employer-led practical or site-specific elements.
5. Set the class duration, capacity, price, scheduling and cancellation conditions. Review the applicable trainer terms and platform fees before listing.
6. Preview the learner experience and check your class details before sharing your storefront.
7. Use industry research to prepare employer questions and offer the class where it fits an identified need.

Reusable class outline

Employer training proposal template

Price your offer using your own costs

Include preparation, delivery, administration, materials, travel, platform fees and a margin appropriate to your business. Check whether the class still makes sense at your minimum enrollment. No template or membership guarantees customers or income.

Brown includes unlimited CSV downloads, saved searches with weekly alerts, company snapshots and tracked companies, alongside its teaching tools.

Black Belt: build a repeatable business workflow

Your first outcome: one documented path from research to proposal and follow-up.

1. Define the customer, service, capacity and geographic area you can serve.
2. Research the organization and record verified findings with dates.
3. Track the prospect, qualification questions, next action and follow-up date.
4. Confirm the customer’s need before proposing a service.
5. Define scope, deliverables, responsibilities, fees and acceptance conditions.
6. Track delivery and ask for feedback. Review what work was profitable and repeatable.

Use Black’s consultant directory and available government-contract research tools where they fit your business. Verify each opportunity’s eligibility, requirements and deadlines at its source.

Coral / Red Belt: turn coaching into action

Your first outcome: a specific goal, a focused session agenda, and an action plan.

Coral includes one private 45-minute coaching session every two weeks. Use the time to work through the platform tools and decisions connected to your goals.

Choose a plan you will use

Monthly plans let you start with a smaller commitment. Existing yearly plans include two months free and are billed annually. These reusable guides work with either billing choice. Choose based on the tools and support you need.

Use your existing referral tools

Find your personal referral links and the current reward terms in My Hub. The existing program offers 20% of a referred member’s first year, subject to its eligibility and reward rules. Check your dashboard for applicable trainer referral incentives. Referrals are optional; earnings depend on eligible purchases and the program’s terms.