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What is SMAS?

Safety Management Advisory Services Worksafe

SMAS Worksafe is another SSIP-recognised pre-qualification scheme for UK contractors, focused on health and safety management. Like CHAS and SafeContractor, it audits the company's H&S documentation, accident records, training and management responsibility — and once you hold one SSIP-aligned certificate, the data is reusable across the others to save duplication.

Issued by

SMAS (Safety Management Advisory Services Ltd), SSIP-registered.

Why it matters

If your buying organisation accepts any SSIP scheme, SMAS works as well as CHAS or SafeContractor. Cost and ease-of-use vary across the three — the right one depends on which scheme your principal contractor's procurement portal supports.

Questions to ask a provider

  1. Which SSIP-aligned scheme do you primarily hold?
  2. Are your records reusable across CHAS / SafeContractor / SMAS?
  3. When does your certificate next renew?

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