I assume your going for CHAS certification to prove to potential clients that you have systems in place for managing health and safety and therefore drumming up more business through the PQQ's etc.

Due to the high number of foreign workers now in the UK, especially within the construction industry, they need to know how you communicate the health and safety message to the non-english speaking employees.

So then.....how do you?

Ask yourself this question and there's your answer, if you don't communicate with your non-speaking English employees, then you need to start considering doing so. Their lives are as valuable as English employees.

This may seem a bit flippant, but our profession should be about protecting people not giving 'text book' answers just to attain certifications and accreditaions if we are not meeting that standard.....grrrrrrrr

Solo!

If you are developing your policy, then you need to make a statement with regards to training that you take account of differing levels of; competence, skills, responsibility, language, literacy and risk.
Consider providing handouts etc. in the language that they speak (HSE web-site can provide these), and also the use of a translator during training sessions.

Hope this helps.

Solo! ;-)

HSE have issued recent guidance on the subject. (http://www.hse.gov.uk/migrantworkers/employer/protecting.pdf)


Regards

John