CHAS Accreditation
January 2010
The business operates from a 22,000 sq ft manufacturing premises in Hyde, Cheshire supplying a wide range of rainwater goods, roofline solutions, exterior cladding systems and building detail finishes.
Following a period of rapid growth, the business turned its attentions to acquiring those important accreditations that endorse the company’s already impeccable health, safety and awareness standards.
The CHAS scheme was first established with a mission to improve health and safety standards among contractors in the construction sector, to reduce duplicated safety applications for both suppliers and buyers and to introduce a scheme that allowed buyers to compare health and safety standards fairly and consistently.
CHAS is now recognised as the industry wide scheme by which more than 400 public and private sector buyer organisations can assess:
- Health and safety policy statements.
- Organisational and operational health and safety activities
- Specific health and safety arrangements to a standard that is recognised throughout the UK.
The award of CHAS accreditation to JWD comes as a welcome move for JWD's customers. JWD works with many of the countries biggest names in construction, a handful of which had asked JWD to obtain the accreditation to ensure that supply would not be interrupted by their own CHAS specific policies being breached. This a testament to the loyalty of JWD's customers and the increasing importance of CHAS accreditation in the construction market.
JWD is also ISO 9001 approved for quality management and is also a Service First Associate – a recognised technical award from world renowned coatings specialist, Akzo Nobel, for excellence in powder coating.
For information on JWD, call 0161 351 9990 or email sales@rainwatergoods.co.uk