Category Archives: Contractors health and safety

10 reasons to achieve CHAS accreditation – 0844 3 247 249

Posted on by

1. The business will become a member of a nationally recognised accreditation scheme.

2. Achieving CHAS registration or accreditation will reduce the time and effort spent duplicating submissions for pre-qualification health and safety questionnaires.

3. CHAS registration will demonstrate to Client organisations a level of compliance with Health and Safety law in terms of competence.

4. It will provide further opportunities to secure new and larger commercial contracts.

5. CHAS Clients registered organisations will have access to your business details creating further business opportunities.

6. Accreditation will help to overcome inconsistency in assessments with some contractors being assessed as compliant by one employer and not another.

7. CHAS accreditation will enable you to be considered for contracts that you would previously not have been considered for.

8. Accreditation will enable the health and safety elements of Construction line applications to be complied with.

9. A standardised process helps improve communication.

10. The CHAS assessment process focuses your business on many areas of your business, allowing for improvement before the CHAS Application Form is submitted.

CHAS registration and accreditation benefits – 0844 3 247 249

Posted on by

There are many reasons why you may need to be CHAS registered and accredited, but the one compelling reason is that it allows you to work in both the public and private sector.

For instance, a local council will say that we require you to be CHAS qualified to:

  1. Tender for contracts with the local Council or main contractor
  2. Avoid duplication of submitting multiple H&S Questionnaires to clients
  3. Avoid being assessed as compliant by one employer but not another
  4. To be considered for contracts that you previously would not have been shortlisted for
  5. Save time and money for all parties.

The CHAS Assessment Scheme is a non-commercial, government run scheme. CHAS has been developed over quite a number of years by local government health & safety professionals, with the support of the Health and Safety Executive.

The major benefit though is that you are demonstrating that you are a forward thinking company and have systems in place that mark you above your competition. It may also be that the local council has just had a change and now requires its contractors to be CHAS registered. Certainly we have helped several companies become CHAS accredited that have been working for the local council for years, but who now require CHAS accreditation.

The CHAS qualification is also more than just a sticker on your van. People do use the CHAS database to access companies for jobs they need doing. This means they know the people are already CHAS accredited and have been proved capable of doing the work.

Clients from both the public and private sectors use the CHAS Assessment Scheme to make assessments of contractors in this way. One of the benefits to contractors is that by making a successful CHAS application, you can demonstrate to a wide number of potential clients that you achieve or exceed the minimum standards laid down by the CHAS Assessment scheme.

CHAS | The Contractors Health and Assessment Scheme 0844 3 247 249

Posted on by

CHAS or in its full title The Contractors Health and Assessment Scheme, is an accreditation scheme for companies working mainly in the private sector.

The scheme was setup to save companies having to supply lots of documentation to Merton Councilso that they could do work for them. The scheme was so successful that it was rolled out to other councils.

So why do you need it ?
Well the answer is fairly simple, councils and other organisations want their suppliers to be of a certain standard, and CHAS is one of the ways of making sure of that.

So The Contractors health and assessment scheme may be good for your company.

Here at iwantchas we help people get CHAS qualified. You can go through the process yourself but it can take ages if you don’t have the right documentation and in not right form for the acreditiors. We know of many companies that have done it them selves, but it took two weeks to do. I suspect that you have better things to get on with.

So what to do next is, give us a ring on 0844 3 247 249. We can then explain to you what happens and what, if anything we need from you.

CHAS – The Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme

Posted on by

Below is an extraction from one of the CHAS Providerson we use. Sphere are just one the companies that help people get CHAS ACCREDITED  & CHAS REGISTERED

Pre-Qualification & Supplier Questionnaires

Many organisation now use PQQ’s to verify and evaluate their suppliers prior to starting any project. This can seem a daunting process for many SME’s but really is not that  difficult to achieve. Health and safety like many other disciplines has its own language which is not readily recognisable after all who would call a computer, display screen equipment.

Sphere RHSM has lots of experience in all major forms of PQQ and supplier questionnaires, these include:

  • National Brtiannia Safe Contractor
  • CHAS & CHAS application
  • Constructionline
  • Achilles
  • UVDB
Along with major PQQ Sphere RHSM has dealt with company specific supplier questionnaires such as:
  • Kier
  • Wilmott Dixon
  • Kanvas
  • Local Authority—Cambridgeshire & Fenland
Case Study 1:
A construction company was having problems in fulfilling a PQQ’s supplied by Safe Contractor, Sphere RHSM took over this functions and provided the following:
  • Gap analysis to specify what was required and by when
  • Completed the health and safety documentation
  • Scheduled in the training required
  • Provided email feedback to Safe Contractor
  • The company received CHAS Registration & Safe Contractor approval within 6 weeks of Sphere being appointed.
Case Study 2:
An electrical company wanted CHAS accreditation so as to quote for local authority projects, using the  system identified in case study 1. Sphere RHSM successfully gained accreditation for the company, this resulted in the company being able to quote on a £300,000 project.