CHAS Training & CHAS Courses

CHAS is a pre-qualification scheme that allows local authorities and other organisations determine that you have the minimum standard required under the Scheme. The Benefits of belonging to CHAS are:

• Safes you TIME – Complete the documents and assessments once, pass, this will reduce your prequalification for other organisations as it is a recognised standard.
• More Customers - Gives you access to a lot more customers, people who would not entertain you without CHAS Training and Assessment
• Cuts out the cowboys
• Demonstrating your level of compliance with health and safety law (to assess competence);
• Avoiding duplication of your effort by reducing the need to submit multiple H&S Questionnaires to clients;
• Overcoming inconsistency in your assessments with some contractors being assessed as compliant by one employer but not others;
• Providing opportunities to secure New and Larger Commercial Contracts;
• Enabling you to be considered for contracts that they would previously not have even been shortlisted for;
• Enabling the health and safety elements of Constructionline to be complied with.

The CHAS assessment does not assess health and safety competence for specific types of work but concentrates on fundamental health and safety management and compliance issues as they apply to the work you undertake. The table below shows the main areas that will be assessed as part of your CHAS application, though in all cases documented evidence and examples have to be provided with your completed CHAS Course Application Form include:

• Health & Safety Arrangements
• Safety Policy Statement
• Work Equipment Procedures
• Health & Safety Training
• Employee Consultantion Arrangements
• First Aid Provision 
• Fire Emergency Procedures & Fire Risk Assessments
• Display Screen Equipment Assessments
• Manual Handling Assessments
• Electrical Safety & PAT Testing
• Risk Assessments & COSHH Assessments
• Asbestos Awareness Training & Managment
• Health Surveillance Arrangements
• Accident Reporting Procedures
• Work Equipment Inspections & Maintenance
• Personal Protective Equipment PPE
• Access to Competent H&S & Construction Advice
• Contractor Management & Competence Assessment
• Workplace Safety Inspections
• Fire Risk Assessments
• Monitoring Audit & Review Procedures

Full details of the CHAS assessment standards can found on the following web page:

http://www.chas.gov.uk/chas/Downloads/AssessmentStandards.doc

To become registered on the CHAS Assessment Scheme, you need to download a copy of the relevant CHAS application form from the CHAS website. Once you have your CHAS application form you need to answer all of the various questions, provide evidence to support your answers and submit a wide range of documentation, including training certificates, your health and safety policy document, risk assessments, COSHH assessments, method statements, fire risk assessments, manual handling assessments and other documentation. In addition to this you also have to provide CHAS with details of your historic health and safety performance and details of where you obtain your Competent Health and Safety Advice, Information and Support from. We have CHAS courses available to help with this.

Although many see the the CHAS assessment process as being easy and straightforward, this is usually far from the truth. Although many see registration on the CHAS assessment scheme as being easy and straightforward, this is usually far from the truth.

The CHAS website states that "Since our scheme started, four out of five small and medium sized contractors will fail their first assessment an indication of general poor compliance in SME's" - May 2008.

It’s simple for us we do it every day, all day. We are your Health & Safety Experts, we have the skills the knowledge and as you can see on the web site we have all the documents at our disposal to provide the best CHAS training possible. Our CHAS courses have 100% success rate.

It's easy and very quick for us to do the work for you, what will take you days and weeks, takes us hours and days. Do your self a favour get on with your job and let us get on with what we do best.

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