CHAS Accredited Builders

CHAS Accredited Builders

In 1997, a group of experienced Health & Safety (H&S) professionals set out to improve the situation by designing a structured scheme to improve H&S standards across the industry; it was called CHAS which is short for “The Contractors Health & Safety Assessment Scheme”.

Partnering with the “Association of London Government” which represents London’s 33 local authorities, CHAS was key in developing the core criteria which made up the approved code of practice. This was later recognised as Construction, Design and Management 2015 (CDM 2015) and later became a founding member of the Safety Scheme in Procurement or SSIP for short. Recognised as an authority on health & safety, CHAS also established itself as a “trusted advisor” on health and safety compliance setting industry benchmarks that are easy to use.

Health and safety legislation was created to achieve the following aims:

• To simplify health and safety contractor assessment by standardising requirements.
• To allow companies to avoid undergoing health and safety assessments for every job.

Where construction work is to be carried out by an employer, whether a company or government department, it should carry out its own due diligence on a contractor to ensure they are:

• Financial secure
• Have a well-trained workforce with proof of training
• Adhere to CDM 2015
• Meet the Health & Safety obligation laid out in the Health & Safety at Works Act 1974
• Appointing a CHAS Certified Contractor