SSIP (Safety Schemes in Procurement)

If you hold OHSAS 18001 certification with LRQA, then as a Registered Member of SSIP (Safety Schemes in Procurement Competence Forum), we can also certificate you against SSIP without additional audits. You can use your LRQA SSIP Registered Scheme certification to be recognised by other SSIP Member schemes, such as NHBC, CHAS, etc so saving time and money by reducing duplication within pre-qualification schemes.

How can SSIP Certification benefit my organisation?

The revised CDM Regulations in April 2007 introduced Stage 1 Core Criteria for assessing health and safety (H&S) competence of contractors and consultants working in the construction industry.

This allowed existing H&S prequalification schemes to build on and formalise mutual recognition (already in operation amongst some) wherever practicable to do so . . . and so the SSIP was born.

The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) was instrumental in the formation of, and continues to support, the SSIP Forum. It views an accreditation assessment carried out by an SSIP Scheme member as ‘deemed to satisfy’ the Core Criteria requirements.

SSIP is an important move towards consolidating and building confidence in Stage 1 pre-qualification in the UK construction industry.

SSIP Certification with LRQA saves you time, effort and money

Public and private sector buyers with their own approved or preferred list of contractors require their potential contractors and consultants to have their H&S competence assessed at the pre-qualification stage.

You can often be required to be assessed by numerous pre-qualification schemes which is wasteful, so under the SSIP Forum ‘deemed to satisfy’ agreement, membership of one means membership of all.

A key aim of the SSIP Forum is to maximise, wherever possible, the Stage 1 mutual recognition of SSIP Forum member pre-qualification schemes, so if you are registered with LRQA’s SSIP Registered Scheme, you shouldn’t need to fill in further Stage 1 H&S forms for the others, though some may request additional Stage 2 questions or a registration fee.

Need to know more?

If you are required to join a pre-qualification scheme and already have OHSAS 18001 with LRQA, then adding SSIP to that certification makes sense.

Call 0800 783 2179 or complete our enquiry form for further information.