Chapter I: General obligation to provide information and training.

The employer shall organise and provide information to workers on health and safety risks and the measures taken to remedy them. He shall also organise and provide information for workers on the risks to public health or the environment posed by the products or manufacturing processes used or implemented by the establishment, and on the measures taken to remedy such risks.

The employer shall organise appropriate practical safety training for : 1° Workers hired by the employer ; 2° Workers who change workstation or technique; 3° Temporary employees, with the exception of those called in to carry out urgent work necessitated by safety measures and who already have the necessary qualifications for such work; 4° At the request of the occupational physician, workers returning to work after at least twenty-one days…

The extent of the obligation to provide safety information and training varies according to the size of the establishment, the nature of its activity, the nature of the risks encountered and the type of employment of the workers.

The cost of safety training is borne by the employer.

The employer shall enter in a prevention passport the certificates and diplomas obtained by the worker as part of the health and safety at work training provided on his own initiative. Training organisations fill in the passport in the same way for the occupational health and safety training courses they provide. The worker may also enter these elements in the prevention passport when they are obtained at the end of…