Falls from height continues to be the largest causes of major injuries and fatalities. About 4000 working at height-related accidents occur each year at work and the most common cases are falls from ladders and through fragile services. Alarmingly, two thirds of all major injuries at work
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SSIP Membership Did you know that there are some Health & Safety qualifications you can get as part of the SSIP membership scheme as long as you hold a scheme membership certificate for one of the full Schemes. In laymen terms this means for example if you
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Construction Phase Plan Know your responsibilities As potential Contractors under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, you need to be aware of your responsibilities. The CDM Regulations require all construction projects to have a construction phase plan (CPP), you will need to ensure this is in place before
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What is a risk assessment A risk assessment is to enable you to identify sensible control and measures for risks within your workplace. Risk Assessments are not meant to create huge amounts of work for anyone in the company but should be there to ensure the safety
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Top Tips for Manual Handing Did you know Manual handling causes over a third of all workplace injuries? These injuries can include pain and injuries to arms, legs and joints, and repetitive strain injuries of all varieties. Manual handling covers a wide variety of activities including lifting, pushing, pulling,
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What documents are needed for CHAS? CHAS is an assessment of your Health & Safety documentation, so you will need to provide evidence that this is carried out correctly. Depending on the size of your business depends on the information you need to provide. The details below
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In 2022 we have made the decision to freeze our prices for assistance with CHAS applications to help you get what you need but keeping it affordable. We have reduced the fee for all small CHAS Applications to £300 + Vat This includes: all the paperwork needed
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Welcome to our Health & Safety Questions for February How Hard is to get CHAS? CHAS is an assessment of your Health & Safety you have in place for your business, you may need some help to get everything in the right format they are looking for but
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CHAS have recently renamed their current levels. The new levels fall under the criteria below: CHAS Standard (formally CHAS H&S) CHAS premium has been removed as a level all together) CHAS Advanced (formally CHAS premium Plus) CHAS Elite (formally CHAS premier) Your existing qualification will just be renamed in
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Welcome to our Health & Safety Questions for January Please find below the questions we wanted to share with you this month: What does CHAS stand for? Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme How to become CHAS accredited? Full details on how to apply for CHAS can be found on
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