The fee may seem daunting if you have a large turnover at the time you apply but the additional work that you can get from being a member far outweighs the initial costs. Constructionline not only saves money but can save time as well as being a member can mean you only have to fill out one PQQ.

If you are unsure what the costs would be please see the chart below:

Yearly Turnover	Fee (ex. VAT)	Cost payable
£0 to £99,999	£90	£108.00
£100,000 to £249,999	£95	£114.00
£250,000 to £999,999	£250	£300.00
£1,000,000 to £1,999,999	£435	£522.00
£2,000,000 to £4,999,999	£490	£588.00
£5,000,000 to £19,999,999	£735	£882.00
£20,000,000 to £49,999,999	£1,075	£1,290.00
£50,000,000 and above	£1,565	£1,878.00

Above chart is from www.constructionline.co.uk

Part of the membership benefits include being able to see the opportunities board which alerts you with the latest projects that are relevant to your companies experience.

Constructionline was established in July 1998 when CMIS and ConReg were merged. It is well established qualification and has proven to be beneficial to companies for many years.

If you are struggling with an application or would like us to complete one for you get in touch.

Reasons to join the Safecontractor scheme

Have you been asked to get the Safecontractor accreditation by one of your clients? Do you know what it is? Safe Contractor is one of the largest expanding health and safety accreditation schemes in the UK, it currently has more than 270 clients and over 24,000 contractor members.

Fully Qualified Assessor

Safecontractor has a unique level of specialist knowledge unrivaled by competitors, built on 10 years’ experience of delivering market leading accreditation services. This is further reinforced by engaging only directly employed, experienced and qualified assessors to carry out audits.

Health & Safety Compliance

Members of SSIP

• Altius
• Acclaim
• CHAS
• SMAS

 

You thought you knew the top dangerous jobs in the UK, the list below may surprise you. Some jobs are more dangerous than others but we weren’t expecting a few of these.

 

 

Builder

The top most dangerous job comes as no surprise builders are putting themselves at risk everyday – 39 people died in the construction industry between 2012 and 2013, the majority of them by falling from a height.

Refuse collector

This isn’t the most pleasant job to have, but being a refuse collector should also carry a health warning. 10 people died collecting, treating and disposing of waste between 2012 and 2013 according to the Health and Safety Executive‘s latest figures. The industry had a fatality rate of 7.8 per 100,000 employees in 2012/2013

Farmer

Agriculture, forestry and fishing has the highest risk of all industrial sector, this sector accounts for an average of one in five fatal injuries. Out of the 29 workers fatally injured in 2012 / 2013 almost 50% were farmers, 17 % were hired hands in the industry. 5 of these were killed by animals, 5 more died by drowning or asphyxiation.

Miner

With only three deep pit coal mines left operational in the UK there is still a threat to miners on a daily basis. In 2012 / 2013 there were 2 fatalities and over 150 injuries in the mining and quarrying industry. As the industry has reduced in size, the fatality rate is now the highest in the country at 9.6 per 100,000 employees.

Shopkeeper

Although there was no fatal injuries in the retail industry between 2012 / 2013, there were 1619 “major injuries” in the sector with close to 7,000 injuries reported in total.

Mechanic

Mechanics and Car Salesmen are also at risk with 8 deaths recorded in 2012 / 2013 and close to 300 major injuries.

Teacher

Education is reportedly the most injury prone sector with 1,736 people reporting non-fatal major injuries in 2012 / 2013, although there were no reported fatalities.

Estate agent

It might seem like an unlikely career for you to be at risk,  but HSE statistics say that 4 people died in the rental and leasing activities industry in 2012 / 2013, with 70 people suffering from major, but non-fatal, injuries.

 

 

 

Depending on which industry you work in there are a different variety of hazards you may come into contact with.

One example is an office worker is much less at risk from being burnt than a chef as you would expect.

There is however a range of common accidents and injuries which occur across all occupational sectors – and slips / trips and falls invariably top the table.

In 2013/14

• over half the fatal injuries to workers were of three kinds: falls from height; contact with moving machinery; and being struck by a vehicle (RIDDOR)
• falls and slips & trips, combined, account for over a third (35%) of employee injuries. They made up more than half of all reported major/specified injuries and almost three in ten (29%) over-seven-day injuries to employees (RIDDOR)
• handling was the most frequent cause of over-seven-day injury (RIDDOR)
• an estimated 1.9 million working days were lost due to handling injuries and slips & trips (LFS).

Source HSE

Overall, the three most common types of accident/injury were:

• Trips/slips or falls
• Machinery / Moving Objects
• Manual handling/lifting

Some of the most common injuries were:

• Sprains and strains
• Back injury
• Head injury
• Neck injury
• Repetitive Strain Injury

Most Common Risks

Overall, slips/trips and falls or damage caused by manual handling/lifting remain the main culprits of injury in the workplace.

Some of these risks may have been able to be managed if a risk assessment and workforce training had been carried out. If you need an up to date risk assessment or tool box talks download our free documents below:

RA1 – Working at Heights

Slips, Trips and Falls Tool Box Talk

What is CHAS Accreditation

CHAS Accreditation was a government-run (not-for-profit) scheme administered by the London Borough of Merton. CHAS was acquired by Veriforce LLC, a US-registered company with headquarters in Houston, Texas, USA, in 2022.

CHAS cofounded and helped pioneer the Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP) and the Common Assessment Standard.

CHAS (Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme) has been developed and refined over a number of years by local government health and safety and procurement professionals, with the support of the Health and Safety Executive.

Although government bodies have developed CHAS, it is available for use by any public and private sector organisation as an aid when short-listing contractors, suppliers and consultants who apply to work for them.

CHAS provides information and assurances about the health and safety systems and competencies of the organisations that have been CHAS assessed or registered as CHAS accredited.

Organisations must submit an application to CHAS to become registered with CHAS and then have a CHAS assessment carried out. By doing so, their potential clients know that they meet minimum acceptable health and safety compliance standards. Clients from both the public and private sectors use CHAS to make assessments of contractors in this way.

Once the CHAS application has been approved for an organisation, their details are uploaded to the CHAS database, where client members of the Scheme can review an organisation’s details to check that they are, in fact, CHAS registered. One of the benefits to contractors is that by making a successful CHAS application, they can demonstrate to a wide number of potential clients that they achieve or exceed the minimum standards laid down by the assessment scheme.

With the implementation of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM), there are stricter requirements on Clients and Principal Contractors to ensure that they only employ ‘Competent Contractors’. CHAS has been named in the CDM Regulations by the Health and Safety Executive as being one of the assessment schemes that can be used when demonstrating your competence as an organisation.

Learn more about CHAS

We have a series of articles where you can learn more about CHAS. The list of articles is below:

• CHAS registration
• Guide to CHAS
• CHAS renewal
• CHAS accreditation cost
• SIPP accreditation and CHAS
• CHAS assessment criteria
• CHAS deem to satisfy
• CHAS Training Guidance
• Competent person and CHAS
• CHAS support

If you have any questions on what is CHAS accreditation please get in touch.

How do the CDM 2015 regulation changes affect you?

Did you know there are changes to the CDM regulations that came into place from 6 April 2015. Here is our quick guide on how they might affect you.

New Legislation

From 6 April 2015, the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) came into force, replacing CDM 2007. The key changes of the new CDM regulations are listed below:

• The revised Regulations apply to all projects including domestic client jobs
• All projects must have a written construction phase plan
• The role of CDM co-ordinator in the previous CDM Regs 2007 has been removed and replaced with a new role of principal designer
• There is a duty to make sure all persons doing the job have the right skills, knowledge, training and experience
• A Principal designer and principal contractor must be appointed on projects that will have more than one contractor

 

For additional details on the changes please click on CDM 2015 Changes

 

The HSE have also produced detailed guidance called “Managing health and safety in construction – Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015”, which covers the legal requirements for CDM 2015.

Further Information

The CITB have produced guidance for all the roles covered under the new CDM 2015 regulations, which can be downloaded here. They have also developed a free CDM Wizard app for Android and IOS to help quickly produce construction phase plans, which can be downloaded via the links below.

 

Where Do You Rank In The Health & Safety Top 500 Leaderboard?

The Health and Safety Industry Top 500 Leaderboard is curated and managed by David Cant @DavidGCant, and published by Veritas Consulting Safety Services Ltd, in association with PPE.org – @PPEORG

The Leaderboard shows rankings in an association table-design for the Top 500 people, organizations and association worldwide in industry related parts. This leaderboard perceives the Top 500 dynamic Twitter users included in the Health and Safety Industry, working in Asbestos, Training, E-learning, PPE Suppliers, Safety Equipment, Road Safety, Environment and some more!

This time last year we ranked #217 in the Health & Safety Top 500 Leaderboard. With this in mind we are very proud to announce that we have jumped 138 places over the year and now rank #79. Over the past month alone we are up by 23 places from #102 and are hoping to continue to climb the ladder.

Rankings are in light of Social Media associations and impact over all online networking channels, for example, Google, Facebook and Linkedin, with the information measured by Klout. Rankings can go “Up or Down” contingent upon Social Media action in this way.

Where do you rank?
On the off chance that you are not on this Leaderboard and in the Health and Safety industry yourself or might want to designate somebody who ought to be incorporated tweet @DavidGCant the details with #HSTop500 and David will add you to the LeaderBoard to see where you Rank.

In May 2015 the HSE reported on 44 cases involving companies that were found negligent resulting in average fines of £10k per company.

The latest case being a property company in Lancashire who have been fined £14,400 plus full HSE prosecution costs of £1,276 and a victim surcharge of £200. They failed to protect their employee whilst working at height.

 

 

 

 

 

 

45% of deaths (19 of 42) in Britain on Construction Sites last year were as a result of falls from height and 581 workers suffered major injuries (35% of the total).

We are making a conscious effort to make sure all companies big or small are aware of the risks involved in working at heights.

If you need an up to date Risk Assessment and Method Statement we are offering a free download.

The HSE offer comprehensive guidance and information free of charge to download  http://www.hse.gov.uk/construction/index.htm so that all companies have the resources available to them to ensure they comply.