About CHAS

Over the years local authority health and safety and procurement professionals, with the support of the Health and Safety Executive, have developed the Contractor Health and Safety assessment scheme (CHAS). The scheme is available for use by any public and private sector organizations to use when shortlisting contractors, suppliers and consultants (companies) who apply to work for them. It provides information about the health and safety part of their application.

Companies apply to join the scheme so everyone knows they meet acceptable standards of health and safety compliance. Clients from both the public and private sectors are users of the scheme and our database.

Participating in the CHAS scheme helps both companies and employers;

• It makes sure a company is compliant with important parts of health and safety law.
• It means members do not have to repeat the effort of assessing health and safety compliance of applications for companies who have already been assessed to our standards.
• Companies do not have to undergo health and safety assessments every time they apply to one of our clients for work - clients will know they have been successfully assessed before.
• It will get rid of inconsistency where some contractors may be judged compliant by one employer but not others.

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