I am putting together all the information we need to apply for CHAS certification. We currently have the COSHH assessment, risk assessment, method statement and safe system of work all in one document. We then have a health and safety policy which details ccident reporting, subcontractor assessment policy and can provide training courses for staff. Is there anything else that I might need?

Do you have 18001? If you do you can complete a deemed to satify submission with your certifucate and last audt dated within the last 12 months.

If not I have to say CHAS is a wee beastie. They ask lots of questions and will not under any circumstances accept a generic document. You will need to provide a lot of health suff (noise, vibration, surveillence) if you don't do them you have to put a valid reason why. You need you H&S director / senior managers CV AND his certifications / memberships to back that up. You need details of the senior team and there competencies, proceedures for RA, COSHH, SSOW, manual handing and completed examples (at least 3), if you do night work you need completed night worker assessments. The list goes on. Turn your phone and emails off and just plough through it.

To be honest I hated doing the submission, rarely did we get through first pass, usually third with some discussion with the assessor. I used to have to complete it for 2 divisions, a month apart!

Originally Posted by: rincewindwales

The only problem I have ever come across is inconsistency from assessors wher some accept the evidence provided when similar evidence from another client is rejected.

I had this! Evidence that was accepted one year was not accepted the following despite being updated! Very frustrating. Got through in the end though.

Maybe I am completely missing it but I can't see anything on the CHAS website that gives me guidance on what supporting documents I need to add. Can someone point me to the actual page on there that has that info?

Perfect. Thank you :-)