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Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme (CHAS)
The Contractors Health and Safety (CHAS) Assessment Scheme is a national database of contractors who have been through a Health and Safety assessment, and have demonstrated adequate compliance and management standards. They are therefore approved to work on local authority and other members contracts, (subject to approval of other checks such as financial probity).
The scheme has two main aims:
- To improve Health and Safety in small to medium sized businesses.
- To reduce the need for repeated Health and Safety form filling in, when applying to our members approved lists or tenders.
CHAS client membership consists of local authorities, housing associations, NHS trusts, major contractors and blue chip companies from Scotland all the way down to Cornwall, who are able to access the database via the internet to add new data and check the compliance of their contractors. (A full list of members can be viewed on the CHAS website.)
CHAS provides a standard set of health and safety compliance criteria so once a contractor has been assessed and approved with one member, they can be accepted by any other signed up to CHAS.
A management group consisting of safety and contract professionals from across the country manages the Scheme. It has co-opted membership of the Health and Safety Executive and the Federation of Master Builders. The group is chaired by John Murphy, the Scheme Manager at the London Borough of Merton.
This page was last updated on Monday 16 November 2009