Crossway CHAS Accredited Feb 09
Crossway have always been health and safety conscious and now we have the accreditation to prove it!
Following an independent health and safety audit carried out last year to enable us to be added to Carillon’s approved list of suppliers, a few minor suggestions were made and adopted to improve efficiency and build best practise into the business.
The next logical step was for us to gain further accreditation, but this time in the Health and Safety sector. This of course meant applying for CHAS (Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme) accreditation.
We are proud to announce that we received accreditation in February 2009.
About CHAS: Information retrieved from the CHAS website:
The scheme is available for use by any public and private sector organizations to use when shortlisting contractors, suppliers and consultants (companies) who apply to work for them. It provides information about the health and safety part of their application.
Every month there are thousands of companies applying to select lists managed by public sector organizations (such as councils, housing associations, NHS Trusts and fire services) and other companies. To get on a list applicants must meet their client standards for placement in areas such as technical ability, equalities, insurance cover, environment and health and safety. Assessing contractors is usually a lengthy process, particularly when it comes to health and safety.
Many companies apply to more than one of these organizations, this means duplication of effort for both them and the assessors. Companies can sometimes pass health and safety assessments and be successful at getting on one list but fail to get on another. This leads to understandable frustration for them. Our scheme works on the logic that a company who has successfully achieved compliance with one organization is acceptable to all.
Participating in the CHAS scheme helps both companies and employers;
• It makes sure a company is compliant with important parts of health and safety law.
• It means members do not have to repeat the effort of assessing health and safety compliance of applications for companies who have already been assessed to our standards.
• Companies do not have to undergo health and safety assessments every time they apply to one of our clients for work - clients will know they have been successfully assessed before.
• It will get rid of inconsistency where some contractors may be judged compliant by one employer but not others.
For more information on CHAS please follow the link below to the official CHAS website:
http://www.chas.gov.uk/about.asp
