Accreditation schemes, can assist organisations to enhance their Health and Safety Systems as well as aid continual compliance.

Some benefits include:

  1. Duplicating information from receiving numerous Health and Safety Questionnaires to complete from your Clients.

  2. Once achieved Clients are more likely to engage with your organisation as they can see that a certain level of compliance is achieved.

  3. Some Clients will not allow organisations to tender for any works unless they have obtained an approved SSIP Accreditation. CHAS, Construction Line, Safe Contractor, EXOR, SMAS.

  4. Accreditation branding can be used on your company letter heads, looks professional, and enhances customer confidence.

  5. Your Organisation will have the benefit of having appointed a competent Health and Safety Consultant, this is a legal requirement anyway, if your organisation does not have anyone in place with relevant competence, experience and qualifications.

  6. Each year will require a renewal – So this provides your organisation an opportunity to review all Health and Safety policies and procedures with your appointed Health and Safety Consultant this allows your organisation to remain legally compliant.

  7. Positive impression if the Health and Safety Executive can see you have obtained the accreditation.

  8. Provide an opportunity to review your Health and Safety Training needs and address any gaps in your employees learning.

  9. Provide smaller type organisations to make a positive start to addressing Health and Safety within their operations.

  10. Once one accreditation is achieved, the process is easier to obtain others.