Today we will discuss the CHAS (Contractors’ Health and Safety Assessment Scheme). What exactly is the CHAS accreditation and what are its aims?
CHAS (The Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme) is a pre-approval scheme that is an integral part of Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP) which permits contractors to prove to potential clients that they meet the necessary health and safety standards. CHAS Accreditation can raise your professional standing and help you protect further work opportunities.
CHAS can help businesses achieve compliance, allay supply chain risks and maintain effective supply chain management. CHAS was formed in 1997 by a group of health and safety, and procurement professionals from across the UK and the Association of London Government and since then it has been helping to improve health and safety standards across the UK and maintain organizations away from risk.
CHAS aims
The main aim of CHAS is Simple:
To improve standards and simplify health and safety assessments for contractors
To decrease unnecessary duplication safety applications for both contractors and clients.
To support organizations in proficiently managing their supply chains and provide a full set of supply chain management tools.
Benefits of CHAS:
CHAS (Contractors’ Health and Safety Assessment Scheme) can help you to provide opportunities to protect new and more contracts and listed organizations can connect your business details from CHAS meaning you can direct tender for those jobs. In the same way, having the CHAS accreditation can give you even more chances to develop your business and get yourself some extra money.
As a CHAS member, it straight away shows contractor compliance with significant parts of the health and safety law and is approved to work with all CHAS clients.
The CHAS membership is beneficial for both the clients and the contractors, as it is a nationally recognized accreditation scheme. It can help with implementation pre-qualifications questionnaires and it helps to reduce the time and work giving you additional time to effort on other things.
By applying for CHAS you’ll improve stronger consciousness about your health and safety procedures and it allows you to emphasize, and recover, different features before you come to apply.
It will help you more opportunities to secure larger and healthier commercial contracts that improve your professional image allowing you to gain further work.
CHAS can help you if you decide to apply for other accreditations such as CONSTRUCTIONLINE, SMAS (Safe Management Advisory Service). This makes it much easier to apply for accreditations as long as part of the health and safety department can be sustained because you’re CHAS recognizes.
CHAS is a well-known health and safety accreditation scheme for UK contractors and with our Health and Safety Assessment, you can safeguard the wellbeing of your business and your employees.
We provide a hassle-free service where we complete the CHAS application on your behalf along with the necessary supporting documents. We can adapt to any level of support you need, whether you want to complete the entire CHAS accreditation process at a reasonable price from start to finish or you want support with certain areas of the application, we can help.