Employees of external companies who sit or have sat as staff representatives on an extended health, safety and working conditions committee are bound by an obligation of discretion with regard to information of a confidential nature and given as such by the employer. They are bound by professional secrecy on all matters relating to manufacturing processes.
Employees of external companies who sit or have sat as staff representatives on an extended health, safety and working conditions committee benefit from the protection provided by Book IV of Part Two.
Within the perimeter of a technological risk prevention plan set up in application of article L. 515-15 of the Environment Code, an inter-company occupational health and safety committee is set up by the administrative authority. It ensures consultation between the social and economic committees of establishments comprising at least one facility on the list provided for in article L. 515-36 of the Environmental Code or subject to the provisions of…
Without prejudice to the application of the other measures provided for in this Code relating to the prevention of fires and explosions, appropriate human and material resources for prevention, fire-fighting and rescue shall be provided to ensure the safety of persons employed within the establishment at all times. The employer defines these resources according to the number of people employed on the premises and the risks involved. It consults the…
In the event of serious and imminent danger, the employer shall, as soon as he is aware of it, inform the Labour Inspectorate monitoring officer referred to in article L. 8112-1, the prevention department of the social security bodies and, as appropriate, the Nuclear Safety Authority, the Classified Facilities Inspectorate or the engineer responsible for policing the facilities referred to in article L. 211-2 of the Mining Code, of the…
In order to ensure the safety and protect the health of people working on a building or civil engineering site, the client, the project manager and the health and safety coordinator mentioned in article L. 4532-4 implement, during the design, study and development phase of the project and during the construction of the work, the general principles of prevention set out in 1° to 3° and 5° to 8° of…
For building or civil engineering operations undertaken by municipalities or groups of municipalities with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants, the project manager may be entrusted, by delegation from the project owner, with the application of the general principles of prevention provided for in the first paragraph of Article L. 4531-1 as well as the coordination rules provided for in Chapter II.
When several building or civil engineering works have to be carried out at the same time on the same site by several project owners, the latter work together to prevent the risks resulting from the interference of these works.
When the planned duration or volume of work on a building or civil engineering project exceeds certain thresholds, the project owner must submit a prior declaration before the work begins: 1° To the administrative authority ; 2° To the professional body for health, safety and working conditions provided for by article L. 4111-6 in the building and public works sector; 3° To the social security bodies responsible for occupational risk…
Workers’ health and safety must be coordinated on any building or civil engineering site involving several self-employed workers or companies, including subcontractors, in order to prevent the risks arising from their simultaneous or successive interventions and to provide, where necessary, for the use of common resources such as infrastructure, logistics and collective protection.
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