CHAS was created to achieve; simple Health & Safety contractor assessments, by standardising requirements, to allow companies to avoid undergoing Health & Safety assessments for every job. 

CHAS undergoes an annual audit to achieve and maintain the HSE’s SSIP Standard. 

 

The most basic CHAS Accreditation is completed with a main Health & Safety assessment, complete with four additional SELF-CERTIFIED question sets.Health & Safety – Assessment; The assessment is carried out by one of their qualified assessors, so you can be assured that any assessment is being carried out by an assessor with the appropriate knowledge base. 

Here are a few tips on how to refresh your business for 2019: 

In order to change the way you are running your business, you need to identify the problems within your current business plan. There are many practical ways in which businesses can impose a fresh, strategic perspective. For example, we could imagine how a set of specific economic, social, and business trends will affect your business, as well as ways to capture the opportunities which may arise in 2019, only after this analysis and discussion can we then settle into the more typical planning exercise of financial forecasting and identifying strategic initiatives. 

Even when your site is inactive, you still hold a duty of care, in order to keep the general public safe. 

This checklist will help you minimise any risks posed during the break by ensuring your site is as secure as possible, during your time away: 

You need to define your site boundaries, with the use of suitable fencing; this should reflect the nature of the site and the surrounding areas. Take a quick walk round your site to ensure that fencing is secure and undamaged. Children (and thieves) will often enter construction sites during quiet periods, and the best way to keep them safe from injury is to keep them out. 

SMAS is short for Safety Management Advisory Services. 

They are a Health & Safety assessment organisation that offers a nationally recognised Health & Safety accreditation used to demonstrate your business' Health and Safety standards. They are a co-founding member of the Safety Schemes in Procurement or better known as SSIP. 

 

All of the assessments are undertaken in-house which enable SMAS to offer a consistent standard across all assessments, the minimum standards SMAS assess against are set out in the SSIP Core Criteria.. 

Now is the time for companies to get ready to survey their employees to not only gain their place on the Times Top 100 companies list, but to also understand what their employees think about their working lives. 

 

We can all agree that highly engaged and motivated people are the most productive and successful. 

 

So why do some company owners believe that understanding what their employees think is important and others don’t? 

 

There are obviously lots of reasons, ranging from 'we just don’t care', to 'we would if we had the time and the money'.  

 

Some companies, on the other hand, have an employee survey but choose not to do anything with the results, the survey is simply a tick box exercise. 

 

A construction contractor has been fined £566,670 after a tipper truck driven by one of its employees struck overhead power lines. The vehicle sustained minor damage and the driver was unhurt. 

 

The driver was employed by Mick George, a company that supplies earth moving, demolition, skip hire and waste management services to the construction industry.  

 

On 9 March 2016 he was emptying a load of soil from the tipper at a construction site in Northampton.  

 

He drove forward with the dump bed still raised and touched – or almost touched – the 33kV overhead power lines.