I.-The employer shall appoint one or more competent employees to deal with the company’s occupational risk protection and prevention activities.
The employee(s) thus designated by the employer shall receive occupational health training under the conditions set out in articles L. 2315-16 to L. 2315-18.
Failing this, if the skills in the company do not allow these activities to be organised, the employer may, after consulting the social and economic committee, call on occupational risk prevention specialists belonging to the inter-company occupational health and prevention service to which it belongs or duly registered with the administrative authority who have skills in the field of occupational risk prevention and the improvement of working conditions.
The employer may also call upon the prevention services of the social security funds, with the support of the Institut national de recherche et de sécurité, as part of the prevention programmes mentioned in article L. 422-5 of the Social Security Code, the professional prevention body for building and public works and the Agence nationale pour l’amélioration des conditions de travail and its network.
This call for expertise is carried out under conditions that guarantee the rules of independence of the medical professions and the independence of the persons and bodies mentioned in this I. These conditions are determined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.
II – The terms of application of this article are determined by decree.