When assigning tasks to a worker, the employer, having regard to the nature of the establishment’s activities, shall take into consideration the ability of the person concerned to implement the necessary health and safety precautions.
Where workers from several undertakings are present in the same workplace, the employers shall cooperate in implementing the provisions relating to health and safety at work.
In accordance with the instructions given by the employer, under the conditions set out in the internal regulations for companies required to draw up such regulations, it is the responsibility of each worker to take care, in accordance with his or her training and abilities, of his or her own health and safety and that of other persons affected by his or her acts or omissions at work. The employer’s…
Measures taken in the field of health and safety at work must not entail any financial burden for employees.
The worker shall immediately alert the employer to any work situation which he has reasonable cause to believe presents a serious and imminent danger to his life or health, as well as to any defect he observes in the protective systems. He may withdraw from such a situation. The employer may not require a worker who has exercised his right to withdraw to resume his activity in a work situation…
An employee representative on the Social and Economic Committee who ascertains that there is a cause of serious and imminent danger, in particular through an employee, shall immediately alert the employer in accordance with the procedure set out in the first paragraph of Article L. 4132-2.
No sanction or deduction of wages may be taken against a worker or group of workers who have withdrawn from a work situation which they had reasonable cause to believe presented a serious and imminent danger to the life or health of each of them.
The benefit of the employer’s inexcusable fault provided for in article L. 452-1 of the Social Security Code is automatically available to the employee or employees who suffer an accident at work or an occupational disease when they or a staff representative on the social and economic committee had informed the employer of the risk that materialised.
The right of withdrawal is exercised in such a way that it cannot create a new situation of serious and imminent danger for others.
When the staff representative on the social and economic committee alerts the employer in application of article L. 4131-2, he shall record his opinion in writing under conditions determined by regulation. The employer immediately carries out an investigation with the representative of the Social and Economic Committee who alerted him to the danger and takes the necessary steps to remedy the situation.
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