COMPLIANCE & RISK ASSESSMENT SUCCESS STORY
CHAS, the supply chain risk management expert, helps award-winning housing developer Story Homes to bring contractors up to targeted compliance levels.
As one of the premier developers in the north of England and Scotland, Story Homes faced the growing need to standardise its supply chain management processes by meeting new compliance requirements. The company worked with CHAS to help its contractors and subcontractors achieve CHAS Standard, CHAS Advanced and CHAS Elite membership.
ABOUT STORY HOMES Founded in 1987 by Chairman Fred Story, Story
Homes is a housing developer headquartered in the north of England with a heritage of building beautiful and well-built homes. The company’s mission is to challenge the conventions of mass-produced houses by designing homes that people aspire to live in that bring something different to the areas in which it operates.
For more than 30 years, the Story Homes name has been associated with aspirational high-specification homes throughout Cumbria, the North-east and North-west of England, and Scotland. Each home is set a little further back from the road and generously spaced apart, featuring different finishes that give each structure a distinctive character.
In 2021, Story Homes built more than 800 homes across its three operating regions — a significant increase from the 600 homes built the previous year. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, as well as supplier and material shortages, the company’s ambitious growth plans are on track, and the business is performing well.
THE CHALLENGE Despite significantly growing in size and status
over the years, Story Homes takes pride in staying grounded and true to its ethos of ‘doing the right thing’ — the driving force behind the company’s track record of doing quality work.
This includes adhering to high levels of health and safety and ensuring that the contractors and subcontractors
that support their supply chains follow these standards.
The developer’s contractors also have to adhere to clear environmental requirements that improve the sustainability of construction projects and reduce their impact on the environment.
For many years, Story Homes relied on a manual system for selecting contractors. This set-up involved an internal pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) process that varied between its regional offices.
A new and more efficient system was needed.
OBJECTIVES The complex challenge of meeting Story Homes’ high health & safety and environmental standards meant the developer had two primary objectives. The first being that Story Homes had to streamline its procurement processes and secondly, Story Homes required consistent compliance levels across its 500-strong contractor base.
To meet these targets, Story Homes worked with CHAS to standardise its supply chain management processes and help contractors through CHAS’s three accreditation packages:
• CHAS Standard — Includes Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP) which predominately covers Health & Safety.
• CHAS Advanced — Meets PAS91 requirements which covers Health & Safety and recognises SSIP; Environmental Impact and Sustainability; Quality Management; Financial & Business Standing and Equal Opportunities & Diversity.
• CHAS Elite — Covers the Common Assessment Standard which recognises SSIP, PAS 91 & ISO 14001 and covers 13 areas including Identity; Financial; Insurance; Corporate and Professional Standing; Health and Safety; Environmental; Quality; Equality; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); Information Security and GDPR; Building Information Modelling; Anti-Bribery and Corruption and Modern Slavery.
Following a tender process with multiple accreditation providers, Story Homes eventually chose CHAS as its preferred partner.
Paul Drysdale, Story Homes SHEQ Director, commented: “For us, CHAS are the clear leaders in safety schemes and partnership organisations.”
THE CAMPAIGN In January 2021, CHAS started a six-month campaign
to bring contractors with fewer than five employees in line with CHAS Standard or above and those with more than five employees in line with CHAS Advanced or CHAS Elite.
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