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Contractorplus Scheme

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amanda

Amanda Lambert

Published on

27 May 2019

Health and safety blog

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ContractorPlus Scheme

What is the ContractorPlus Scheme?

The ContractorPlus Scheme is a contractor health and safety PQQ web based system. The system is simple to use and cost effective. The ContractorPlus Health and Safety Consultants will assess your Health & Safety documents and ensure that you meet the level of requirements that are needed for the assessment.

There are a number of benefits to being a member of ContractorPlus

  • 24 hour health and safety telephone support
  • Achieving accreditation encourages pride and a sense of achievement internally within an organisation
  • ContractorPlus allows you to demonstrate your commitment to health & safety standards
  • Organisations accredited by ContractorPlus are seen as having a competitive edge within many industry sectors
  • Receive regular health and safety updates through email newsletters
  • Accredited contractors are visible to many new potential clients

Why apply for your ConstructionPlus accreditation?

When you undertake your ConstructionPlus registration, you will be demonstrating that you meet the recognised standards required by any organisation looking to employ you as a contractor. Having your ConstructionPlus accreditation is almost certain to open more doors and lead to more opportunities – in turn generating more business and profit for you, ensuring your own workforce is protected by robust health and safety practices.

ContractorPlus Accreditation

Completing the ContractorPlus application takes time and resources, as well as completing lots of forms and health and safety documentation.

We can make it easy for you by doing all the leg work for you. We carry out over 500 applications a year with 100% success.

For a small fee, we can take the pain away for you.

Complete the form, and we will tell you how it works and how much the whole process costs, including the ContractorPlus fee for your circumstances.

    Achilles New Verified Levels

    Insight by

    amanda

    Amanda Lambert

    Published on

    24 September 2018

    Health and safety blog

    Achilles New Verified Levels

    Achilles New Verified Levels have just been announced within their portals. These new levels enable you to provide more information that can be verified by an assessor to show the competency of your company.

    This is falling in line with the likes of Constructionline and CHAS who already have this in place with the launch of their new levels during 2017.

    The new levels fall under the criteria below:

    • Standard – PAS91 Questions, SSIP Questions & Assessment
    • Advanced (annual turnover <£250,000) – PAS91 Questions, Additional Building Confidence Questions, SSIP Questions & Assessment.
    • Advanced + Desktop Audit (annual turnover £250,000 – £2  million) – PAS91 Questions, Additional Building Confidence Questions, SSIP Questions & Assessment.

    Prices for membership payable to Achilles are:

    • Standard – £200 + VAT
    • Advanced (annual turnover <£250,000) – £575 + VAT
    • Advanced + Desktop Audit (annual turnover £250,000 – £2  million) – £650 + vat

     

    If you need any help with the Achilles New Verified Levels please get in touch as we already have the documentation available to help you with the additional questions.

    Safecontractor Scheme

    Insight by

    amanda

    Amanda Lambert

    Published on

    5 January 2016

    Health and safety blog

    Safecontractor Scheme

    Safecontractor is part of the Alcumus Group. The Safecontractor scheme is a web based portal where suppliers can complete an online version of an Health & Safety PQQ. This is then assessed and measured to ensure that your company complies with the guidelines set out.

    As Safecontractor is a set of guidelines clients can use this to measure companies without having to get individual PQQ’s filed in for each occasion. There are over 24,000 members currently in the scheme.

    The process for safe contractor takes on average 8 weeks once you have submitted your documentation to them for review. Safecontractor is a good way to show you have demonstrated your Health & Safety competence and both new and existing clients will recognise that.

    Safecontractor is part of the SSIP umbrella organisation of accreditations so gaining Safecontractor can also deem you to satisfy for other accreditations should your clients require them such as CHAS of exor.

    To find out more about deeming to satisfy please read our blog

    If you are looking for help in completing your Safecontractor application get in touch with us today.

    Reasons to join the Safecontractor scheme

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    amanda

    Amanda Lambert

    Published on

    21 October 2015

    Health and safety blog

    Table of contents

    There are multiple reasons to join safe contractor:

    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 unrivalled 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.

    If you are a service supplier or contractor and want to show new and existing clients your health and safety competence, then you can register with the scheme as a contractor. Being a member of the Safecontractor scheme means you will not have to carry on filling in PPQ for every job you tender for as you can use the Safecontractor accreditation to show your compliance.

    As part of the SSIP, Safe contractor can help you to satisfy other accreditations your client may need such as:

    If you need any help with completing your application for Safecontractor or any of the SSIP accreditations we are on hand to provide quick professional support.

    Safe Contactor Enquiry Form

    Let us know how we can assist and we will be back to you within the hour.