Accreditations

ISO 9001

Churchesfire is accredited to ISO 9001. This is the world’s most established quality framework, which demonstrates an organisation’s competence, impartiality and performance capability. It is the key to reducing risk and ensuring that customers, suppliers and purchasers can have confidence in the services provided. We have been assessed for suitability against internationally recognised standards by BSI Management Systems – among the most respected and reputable management systems certification bodies in the world and in turn accredited by a number of local and international bodies including the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).

Trade Bodies

IFEDA – Independent Fire Engineering & Distributors Association

IFEDA is the independent representative body of fire trade companies and is unaligned to any manufacturer. Its major role is to promote quality standards and professionalism in the service, delivery and distribution of fire protection products, and to promote these benefits to insurance companies, fire authorities, government departments and other fire trade companies. Churchesfire plays an active role in IFEDA and has a director who sits on the committee.


FIA – Fire Industry Association

The FIA is a not-for-profit trade association which promotes the professional status of the UK fire safety industry. It is the result of a merger between FETA (Fire Extinguishing Trade Association) and BFPSA (British Fire Protection Systems Association), two long standing and respected trade associations. One of our senior fire safety team sits on the association’s Fire Risk Assessment Council.


BAFE – British Approvals

BAFE is the independent third party registration body for the fire protection industry. It brings to the marketplace a registration scheme for each product or service within the industry for which third party certification has been considered appropriate. All BAFE schemes are approved to ISO 9001 or equivalent and provide a published technical prescription to which organisations, products and services can be independently assessed. Our BAFE adopted schemes are:

• SP101/ST104 - Specification for Contract Maintenance of Portable Fire Extinguishers (fire extinguisher maintenance) incorporating registered fire extinguisher Service Technicians Scheme.
• SP203-1 – Specification for the Design, Installation, Commissioning & Maintenance of Fire Detection & Alarm Systems.

Health & Safety Accreditations

CHAS – Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme

CHAS is a national database of contractors who have completed a Health and Safety assessment and demonstrated adequate compliance and management standards. This enables them to work on local authority as well as other members’ contracts, subject to approval of other checks such as financial integrity.

The scheme has two main aims:

• To improve Health and Safety in small to medium sized businesses
• To reduce the need for repeated completion of Health and Safety forms when applying to members’ approved lists or tenders

CHAS client membership consists of local authorities, housing associations, NHS trusts, major contractors and blue chip companies nationwide. Once a contractor has been assessed and approved with one member, they can be accepted by any other signed up to CHAS.


Safecontractor

Safecontractor is an accreditation scheme that assesses the health and safety competency of contractors and service providers. Customers have a legal obligation to ensure that external contractors and service providers working on their premises operate in a safe way. There is therefore a need to assess contractor’s health and safety arrangements and increasingly this is being carried out through Safecontractor, with many large organisations using it as their primary selection criterion.


Exor

Exor delivers business opportunities and procurement efficiencies by bringing together suppliers and buyers. It has worked with thousands of large and small suppliers for over ten years to ensure they are compliant and help them to win business. Exor’s range of procurement and compliance services helps the private and public sectors as well as individual customers, to make informed choices – enhancing business performance.


Constructionline

Constructionline is the UK register of pre-qualified construction services. Our accreditation makes it unnecessary for prospective customers to carry out the traditional vetting processes, and for prospective suppliers to check our credentials elsewhere. It saves all parties time, cost and resource.


ContractorPlus

We are listed on ContractorPlus, which is a web based database of contractors who have been rigorously vetted to ensure the highest standard of health and safety systems. The system allows customers to search online for reputable contractors, filtering their search by service or location.

Download our Accrediation documents here.