SSIP – CHAS ACCREDITATION

CHAS

CHAS is a leading Health and Safety Accreditation Scheme. Many companies insist on their suppliers and sub-contractors being ‘CHAS Accredited’ before they contract with them.

To the inexperienced business, CHAS looks like a lengthy bureaucratic process, to us it is just a series of processes that do not faze us at all. The key is in giving the assessors what they want first time, with evidence to back up your claims, to avoid any rejections.

What is the CHAS Accreditation?

The CHAS accreditation is a pre-approval scheme allowing contractors to demonstrate proficiency to the required Health & Safety standards.

CHAS (Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme) is an accreditation scheme designed for those working within the construction industry. The purpose of the CHAS accreditation is to provide a method of proving that your business’ health and safety processes are of a high standard.

How long does the CHAS accreditation last?

The CHAS accreditation can take as little as 10 days to complete. CHAS accreditations last for 12 months, after which time you will have to renew.

Benefits of the CHAS Accreditation

The CHAS Accreditation comes with several benefits including:

• Compliance with relevant Health & Safety legislation
• Client reassurance
• Pre-approval to work with over 1000 CHAS Clients
• Display compliance in a range of areas including Health & Safety, Environmental and Equality & Diversity – with the CHAS Advanced accreditation.
• Allows you to tender for contracts/jobs which may not be open to you without the accreditation
• Save time and money when tendering, as quite often having the accreditation allows you to bypass some questions posed when completing a pre-tender questionnaire

Our CHAS Accreditation Assist Service

Fixed Fee Service

With our help and guidance, and for a fixed fee (irrespective of how many submissions your paperwork may take) we will assist you in the accreditation process, enabling you to focus on doing what you do best, running your own business.

A Dedicated, Qualified Health & Safety Administrator

A dedicated member of our team will liaise with you to discuss your existing health and safety systems and then get to work on the application.

The chances are that you probably have a lot of systems in place already but perhaps haven’t written them down formally. What we’ll do is put together a tangible application that allows you to demonstrate this to the assessor, which will then help lead to your accreditation.

Money Back Guarantee

In the unlikely event you do not achieve accreditation, provided you have followed all our advice, implemented the systems, and returned the required evidence, then we will fully refund the monies paid to us.

Note – Accreditation body fees are payable directly to them and are in addition to this and so are not refundable.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does CHAS Standard include?

• Health & Safety Assessment
• Best Practice of COVID-19
• Financial Section (self-certified)

What does CHAS Advanced include?

This part of the accreditation is an optional bolt on to CHAS Standard and includes the following sections –

• Insurance Verification
• Financial Verification
• Environmental Verification
• Quality Verification
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Verification
• Anti-Bribery & Corruption Verification
• Modern Slavery Verification
• Corporate and Professional Standing
• Identity Verification

CHAS Advanced demonstrates full PAS91 compliance.