Transcript Safety Schemes in Procurement

Safety Schemes in Procurement
Name Of Presenter
Date of Presentation
Aim of the presentation
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To give an understanding of what SSIP is, what it
does and how it works
To seek your support or endorsement for the aims
and objectives of SSIP
Provide the opportunity to ask questions about
SSIP
Background
Important we reduce/remove duplication because:
• It was getting worse, not better
• More bidders, bidding for less work
• Buyers becoming aware of their responsibilities
• Suppliers accumulating several 3rd party health &
safety accreditations
• Suppliers becoming increasingly frustrated with the
proliferation of pre-qualification schemes
• PQQs seen or used as a barrier to SMEs
Background
Government are aware of the problem:
• HM Treasury – Glover Report – November 2008
‘Accelerating the SME economic engine’
• DWP – Donaghy Report – July 2009
‘One death is too many’
Donaghy Report – Recommendation 8
“There should be standard agreed bench-marks to test against the
myriad of pre-qualification schemes”
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Suppliers should not have to acquire a host of pre-qualifications
The Government should take the lead on this as a major client in
public procurement
Background
Government is taking action:
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Government response to the Donaghy report (Recommendation
8) in March 2010
Changes already made to the CDM Regulations simplified
competence assessment and discourages unnecessary
bureaucracy
HSE has worked with SSIP to ensure accreditation requirements
are consistent with the stage 1 core competence criteria
DWP - The Löfstedt Review – November 2011
Background
The result:
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SSIP - a solution demonstrating the industry is
working together
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PAS 91 - A publically available specification
published in October 2010 – revision published
April 2013, providing PQQ standardisation
Mandated for use in central Government
construction procurement since December 2010
What is SSIP?
• SSIP is not another health & safety pre-qualification
scheme
• An umbrella organisation established to facilitate
recognition between health and safety prequalification schemes (wherever it is practicable to
do so)
What is a scheme?
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Any organisation which undertakes a health &
safety competence assessment using the
benchmark standard (CDM 2007 core criteria stage
1 or the Health & Safety Module of PAS 91)
The aims of SSIP
• To encourage and facilitate recognition amongst prequalification schemes
• To encourage buyers to recognise SSIP as an
acceptable industry standard
• To help buyers and suppliers to achieve value for
money through avoidance of unnecessary
duplication or differing requirements
• To provide confidence in stage 1 competence
assessments through a consistent, reliable, and
quality-controlled standard of vetting
Benefits of SSIP
Buyers
• Confidence a supplier has been assessed to the
core criteria standard
• More choice of suppliers
Suppliers
• Fewer duplicate questionnaires saving time and
money
• Company listed in the SSIP Portal
What is assessed?
• CDM core criteria stage 1 only. Stage 2 is the
buyer’s responsibility.
• Arrangements for mutual recognition under SSIP
relate only to health and safety competence
• SSIP members understand that buyers may
have a duty to determine a broader range of
criteria than those established by CDM 2007 e.g.
waste management
SSIP membership requirements
• Agree to an annual independent audit
• Hold a current accredited registration to ISO 9001 with
a UKAS accredited certifying body (or ISO 17021
accreditation as appropriate in the case of certification
bodies conducting assessments to OHSAS 18001)
• Use competent assessors (IRCA trained) that have
additional important ‘soft skills’
• Assess to the ‘benchmark standard’
• Submit details of assessed suppliers into the SSIP
Portal within three months of joining
• Operate in accordance with the SSIP Terms of
Reference
SSIP membership fees
Number of Registered Members
Annual Fee
Less than 500
£1,000
501 – 1,000
£2,000
1,001 – 2,500
£3,000
2,501 – 5,000
£4,000
5,001 – 10,000
£5,000
10,001 & above
£6,000
Affiliate Member
£1,000
Co-opted member
Free
SSIP Registered Members
SSIP Affiliate Members
SSIP Co-opted Members
Scheme Recognition
Mutual recognition
• As far as health and safety is concerned, if a
supplier has been successfully accredited by one
SSIP member, then that accreditation is recognised
by the others
One way recognition
• Information is accepted from other SSIP members
but not reciprocated
• All schemes recognise OHSAS 18001 from an SSIP
member certification body but this cannot be
reciprocated
Scheme Recognition
One way
BSI
Mutual
Recognition
NQA
Non-CB
Members
LRQA
etc
One way
Constructionline
SSIP Structure
Chair
Vice Chair
Forum Management Group – 3 Meetings per year
4 founder registered members + 5 elected registered members +
5 affiliate members + the HSE + SSIP past Chair
Full Forum – 3 Meetings per year
All members
6 Working Groups: Membership, Standards, ITC,
Strategy & Planning, Metrics and Publicity & Marketing
The SSIP Portal
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Centralised verification database listing the details
of around 75,000 contractors which have been
assessed by SSIP members
Verify that a contractors holds a current health and
safety certification from an SSIP member scheme
Major step forward in terms of reducing the time,
effort and duplication associated with qualification
£0 per annum to search the portal
www.ssipportal.org.uk
The Future
• Encourage wider membership, especially in-house
‘schemes’
• Promote SSIP to buyers and suppliers
• Embrace trade association schemes
• Move SSIP to a company limited by guarantee (not
for profit)
• Drive down costs by reducing bureaucracy
• Progress to independently accredited assessors
(IRCA)
Contact SSIP
www.ssip.org.uk
0131 442 6612