Chapter II: Coordination of building and civil engineering works

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.

Health and safety coordination is organised both during the design, study and development of the project and during its construction.

The project owner appoints a health and safety coordinator for each or all of the design and construction phases.

Except in the cases provided for in Article L. 4532-7, the provisions necessary to ensure that the persons responsible for coordination have the authority and resources required to perform their duties are determined by contract, in particular by project management contracts.

The involvement of the coordinator does not alter the nature or extent of the responsibilities incumbent, under the other provisions of this code, on each of the participants in building and civil engineering operations.

For building or civil engineering operations undertaken by a private individual for his personal use, that of his spouse, partner in a civil solidarity pact, cohabitee or his ascendants or descendants, coordination is ensured: 1° In the case of operations subject to planning permission, by the person responsible for project management during the design, study and project development phase, and by the person who actually manages the site during the…