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for managing health and safety. However low risk organisations can often demonstrate effective risk management without a formal management system.
ENSURING A CONSISTENT APPROACH Whichever approach is deemed appropriate a major
challenge in achieving a consistent approach to health and safety is ensuring that standards are upheld throughout the supply chain which requires sound contractor and sub- contractor management. Anyone engaging contractors has health and safety responsibilities, both for the contractors and anyone else that could be affected by their activities. Therefore, a contractor assessment process needs to be in place.
HOW CAN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
can instantly find compliant contractors via the CHAS Client Portal, where they can search by geographic area and trade (no matter how specialist) to help them identify contractors who are accredited and available. CHAS clients also have access to CHAS’s business services completely free which includes compliance assessments, contractor matching and contractor engagement services.
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SERVICES HELP? Companies can carry out contractor assessment themselves but constantly changing rules and regulations can make this approach complicated and costly. This is where third- party accreditation comes in. At CHAS (The Supply Chain Risk Management Experts), we have been helping organisations verify that everyone in their supply chain is working to a consistently high standard for several decades - this means we check, for example, whether contractors have adequate health and safety systems in place, establish whether an organisation has ready access to competent health and safety advice and make checks around training and competency. We also provide an alert system which notifies contractors when insurance policies and health and safety qualifications are about to expire which helps to ensure contractors’ qualifications are always up-to-date.
Clients looking for competent contractors can sign up to become a CHAS client free of charge which gives them access to an industry leading database of over 35,000 accredited contractors. CHAS clients
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APPROACH In 2019 we became the first accreditation body to offer the Common Assessment Standard (CAS), a new pre-qualification system developed alongside Build UK and the Civil Engineering Contractors Association which standardises the construction pre-qualification process.
For contractors the introduction of the Common Assessment Standard means that passing one annual assessment will make them eligible to work with a host of clients who have already signed up to the scheme – which it is hoped will eventually be adopted unanimously. These assessments are made freely available to clients so that they can quickly and easily find qualifying contractors with a proven commitment to upholding, not only high health and standards, but also high standards across a number of other areas including anti-bribery and corruption, modern slavery prevention and environmental sustainability to name a few.
Choosing to use accredited contractors, such as those assessed to the Common Assessment Standard, therefore helps clients to demonstrate responsibility and safeguard their workforce, their reputation and their business. Meanwhile
contractors can be confident that demonstrating their commitment to the standards specified in the Common Assessment Standard, through a short annual assessment, will open up additional employment opportunities.
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