What is Acclaim

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What is Acclaim?

Launched in 2012, Acclaim is the SSIP certification service as part of the Once For All brand. We carry out an online assessment of your company’s health and safety documentation and work activities as an independent, competent assurance of the systems you have in place. As an SSIP members scheme, Acclaim supports the objectives of SSIP (Safety Schemes In Procurement) to improve health and safety standards across the UK and reduce duplication of paperwork in procurement.

Spotlight on SSIP

A huge problem for Suppliers is the need to be assessed by multiple health & safety schemes. By becoming health & safety assessed with an SSIP scheme, you have satisfied the criteria for all other SSIP members’ schemes – saving you from having to pay multiple assessment fees.

Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP) was developed to:

Act as an umbrella body, which is recognised by a large and growing number of buyers
Give confidence to buyers that you have been successfully assessed to the SSIP core criteria
Ensure you only need one SSIP scheme, rather than collecting several health & safety accreditations
Give you freedom of choice regarding your scheme supplier
Reduce duplication

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The Acclaim process

Please download this Acclaim ‘checklist’ and use it to ensure you are uploading the correct documents/evidence into the application form.

Complete each of the 12 questions, providing evidence to support each answer. Use this checklist to ensure you have provide everything that is required before submitting your form.

An Acclaim administrator will then check your application for completeness. Once the application is satisfactory, it will be sent to an SSIP qualified assessor for review within a 10 day period.

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You will pass the assessment if you can show you have the systems and procedures in place to adequately manage Health and Safety. Your Acclaim SSIP Certification will be uploaded to the SSIP website – viewable by any buyer to check the validity of the certificates.

If there is insufficient information to pass you, your form will be returned with comments from the assessor as to what information is still required to pass. You will need to upload the requested information and resubmit your form so the assessor can carry out a second review.

If you do not provide sufficient information after 3 attempts, the assessment will been peer group reviewed by assessors before failing and the applicant will be given guidance on the areas in which they are weak and need improvement before reapplying.

Have a question? Take a look at our FAQs

Yes. Acclaim has been included within all paid Constructionline memberships and is no longer offered as a standalone product.

Constructionline Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum memberships include Acclaim but also offer a ‘Deem to Satisfy’ certificate for those who hold a valid SSIP with an alternative provider.

To find the membership for you please visit the Constructionline website.

Yes. We have detailed guidance documents for both construction and non-construction suppliers. These explain exactly what you must provide in order to meet the SSIP criteria and pass the assessment.

View our helpful guidance documents here to ensure you provide us with all the information that is required.

Yes. They all apply but we have two question sets – one for companies with less than 5 and one for companies more than 5 employees. Please read our helpful guidance here to ensure you provide us with all the information that is required.

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With 28 years of health and safety experience, Acclaim is the perfect partner to help you improve safety within your organisation.

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