Thursday, March 28, 2013

CHAS Cambridge accreditation

By Andrew Sutton


The CHAS (Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme) is a Government run (not for profit) scheme administered by the London Borough of Merton. CHAS has been developed and refined over a number of years by local government health and safety and procurement professionals, with the support of the Health and Safety Executive. It provides information and assurances about the health and safety systems and competence of the Organisations who have been CHAS assessed / accredited. Although the CHAS Cambridge scheme has been developed by government bodies, the CHAS scheme is available for use by any public and private sector Organisation as an aid when short listing Contractors, Suppliers and Consultants who apply to work for them.

The whole process of making a CHAS Cambridge application and filling out the CHAS assessment application forms can be a daunting process, Your chosen health and safety consultancy company will work with you and assist you with your CHAS Assessment Application, ensuring you have all of the necessary documentation and procedures that are required by CHAS Cambridge in place before making your CHAS application. The consultancy will advise you on your training needs and prepare health and safety policy or environmental policy documents and any other health and safety documentation that you may require as part of your CHAS Cambridge Application. Furthermore they will fulfill the role of your health and safety advisors throughout the year for a low fixed price fee; they will then review the CHAS Cambridge assessment application before it is submitted to CHAS for assessment. Having access to competent health and safety advice and support, together help in the preparation of your CHAS Assessment Application will all significantly improve your chances of a favourable assessment for CHAS Cambridge.

Your choice of health and safety consultancy company should be able to provide you with competent health and safety advice, competent construction safety advice and competent Environmental advice, all of which are now essential requirements for a successful CHAS assessment application.

It is imperative that the chosen health and safety consultancy company offer quality CHAS consultancy services and customer satisfaction should be the most important factors of their business, they should understand that you have deadlines and cannot afford to wait days for a consultant to call you back about your CHAS Application, or for another week before a consultant will even start looking at working on your CHAS Assessment Application. Ultimately it should be their aim to help you make a successful CHAS Cambridge application and top prevent you failing your CHAS assessment, meaning the process has to be reviewed, delaying the whole process. The health and safety consultancy should always be available, calling you outside of working hours if necessary and providing a service of the highest quality within agreed timescales and to an agreed fixed budget.

In summary, the CHAS health and safety assessment is a pre-approval scheme to allow suppliers and contractors to show potential buyers that they meet the required health and safety standards. The main purpose of CHAS is to avoid repeated applications by suppliers and contractors to become approved and to improve health and safety in small to medium sized businesses.




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