(Contractors
Health and Safety Assessment Scheme - CHAS)
The CHAS
Assessment Scheme is a 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.
Although the CHAS Assessment scheme has been developed by government
bodies, it is available for use by any public and/or private sector
organisation as an aid when short-listing contractors, suppliers and
consultants who wish to work for them. The CHAS scheme provides information
about the health and safety systems and competency of the organisations
who have been CHAS assessed or are registered as CHAS accredited.
To become
registered with CHAS, you need to submit an application to CHAS and
then have a CHAS assessment carried out on your CHAS Application. By
registering with CHAS, potential clients will know that you meet minimum
acceptable standards of health and safety compliance. Clients from both
the public and private sectors use the CHAS Assessment Scheme to make
assessments of contractors in this way. Once the CHAS application has
been approved, your details are uploaded to the CHAS database where
client members of the CHAS Assessment Scheme can review your details
and CHAS application form to check that you are in fact CHAS registered.
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.
