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Retail giant, ASDA has signed up to the Constructing Better Health Client Charter to encourage a sound occupational health culture in their company’s retail development programme.

Clive Johnson, Health and Safety Manager for ASDA comments:
"From both a business and moral viewpoint, I believe collaborating with CBH is of huge benefit to ASDA. Through CBH we want to put guidelines and KPI’s in place to ensure we are growing sound occupational health practices with our construction supply chain. We will be targeting safety critical workers in the first instance."

ASDA has a working relationship with 12 principal contractors, many of which are major players in the construction industry. Clive Johnson, who has extensive experience in health and safety in the construction industry, knows only too well the risks that work-related ill health can pose to workers. His first step will be encouraging CBH membership and establishing an occupational health surveillance programme for their principal contractors and respective sub contractor supply chains.

The CHAT (Construction Health Action Toolkit) database and software package offered by CBH enables ASDA contractors to demonstrate that they are managing the occupational health of every worker at site level.