CEUs | Evaluation Guide

The Loss Prevention Foundation has found that most people have far more CEUS than they are aware of. If you are not finding enough CEUs for your year, please contact us for help. Its what we are missioned and paid to do.

1) Determining Valid Activity Dates:

We accept all unclaimed activities that are 2 or less years old at the time of submission.
We accept unclaimed activities that occurred AFTER the LPC was earned (Hence, the LPC credential itself does not count, nor anything prior. We do give credit to activities that started before but extended past the day the LPC was earned (e.g. a year of industry membership that extended past the day the LPC was earned).

2) Determining Credit Worthiness:

If the certificant is considering a CEU activity, they can evaluate it against the below criteria to make sure it is credit worthy.

Qualifying Credit Criteria:

The activity needs to relate to retail loss prevention, asset protection, security, safety, and/or business management.
The activity is educational.
The activity is new to you (not exact, same content or a repetition of).
The activity is valuable across companies (not company specific and of little value to anyone outside of the company).
The activity is mentioned or found within the content of the LPC course content material.

If there is still doubt with regards to the activity’s credit worthiness; you are welcome to email us, call us, or send in the CEU Qualification Evaluation Form found on our Forms and Helps page.

*Additional Notes:

LPF's mission is to professionalize the industry. Therefore, unlike some credential programs we do accept topics outside of the LP/AP topic domain. (e.g. we will give credits for activities that grow business skills; such as leadership, presentation, accounting, management, etc.)
To determine if your activity topic is mentioned in the LPC course content material, link to our LPC Course Information page, then find the entire course outline pdf document link and do a search (CTRL/F) within that document for your’s or a similar topic.
We suggest you retain the LPF’s response to any questions you may have asked with regards to credit worthiness of activities along with your identifying proof items when claiming your CEU credits.

3) Determining "Presented Education" CEU Units:

Conferences, seminars, and meetings can present challenges in determining which of the hours are considered LPF CEUs. Below are tips to help you set the appropriate number of "Presented Education" CEUs :

1) We give CEUs to planned, prepared in advance, education material that had a pre-publicized topic, agenda, speaker, and audience. Impromptu, off the cuff, dynamic, brainstorming, spontaneous conversations and gatherings are not considered presented education (e.g. panel discussions, participative meetings, networking, sponsor exhibit visits, etc will not count).

2) Free time should not be included in "Presented Education" time (e.g. meals, breaks, etc do not count).

3) Company Specific information is not included in "Presented Education" time. Any information that is ONLY useful to employees and provides little value if delivered to another in the same role in another company should not be included (e.g. the company's way to enter time cards, the company's proprietary audit procedures, etc. do not count).

The sum of all presented education minutes can be rounded up to an extra hour, if the minutes are not evenly divisible by 60 and there are there are 30 or more remaining minutes.

Example:

Activity	Education	Units	CEUs
Rila Asset Protection Conference	Attended a keynote and session tracks for 1 day. Keynote 1.5 hrs., Tracks 50 mins. each w/5 a day. Total mins are 90 + 5(50) (340 mins. for 1 day = 5 hrs. 40 min*)	1 per hour of received presented education	6
FMI National Conference	Attended keynotes and session tracks for 2 days. Keynotes 1.5 hrs. each, Tracks 50 mins. each w/5 a day. Total mins are 2(90+5(50)) (680 mins for 2 days = 11 hrs. 20 min)	1 per hour of received presented education	11