Article R4323-103 of the French Labour Code
November 3, 2023
The safety register and reports may be kept and stored on any medium under the conditions set out in Article L. 8113-6.
The safety register and reports may be kept and stored on any medium under the conditions set out in Article L. 8113-6.
The employer shall inform workers who are required to use personal protective equipment in an appropriate manner of: 1° The risks against which the personal protective equipment protects them; 2° The conditions of use of this equipment, in particular the uses to which it is put; 3° Instructions or guidelines concerning the personal protective equipment; 4° The conditions under which the personal protective equipment is made available.
The employer shall draw up instructions for use setting out the information mentioned in 1° and 2° of article R. 4323-104 in a comprehensible manner. He shall make this instruction available to the members of the social and economic committee, together with documentation relating to the regulations applicable to the provision and use of personal protective equipment concerning the establishment’s workers.
The employer shall ensure that workers required to use personal protective equipment receive appropriate training, including, where necessary, practice in wearing the equipment. This training shall be repeated as often as necessary to ensure that the equipment is used in accordance with the instructions for use.
The provisions of this section apply to lifts and work equipment serving defined levels with the aid of a passenger compartment, either along a perfectly defined vertical path in space or along a substantially vertical guided path.
Access to premises, installations or locations where it is only necessary to enter for the purposes of checking and maintaining the lifts and work equipment referred to in Article R. 4323-107 is only authorised to the persons responsible for carrying them out and to those who have received appropriate training on the risks relating to this equipment.
When the equipment is exclusively intended for transporting objects, it is forbidden for people to use it. This prohibition is clearly displayed when the equipment has an accessible passenger compartment.
For industrial radiology equipment, a joint order by the ministers for labour and agriculture defines the minimum rules for installation and use, taking into account the exposure modes and characteristics of this equipment.
Moving parts for transmitting energy or for moving work equipment where there is a risk of mechanical contact which could lead to accidents are fitted with appropriate guards or devices to prevent access to dangerous areas or to stop the movement of dangerous parts before workers can reach them, as far as is technically possible.
Work equipment powered by a source of energy other than human effort and comprising moving parts involved in the performance of the work and liable to cause accidents through mechanical contact must be arranged, protected, controlled or equipped in such a way that operators cannot reach the danger zone. However, where some of these moving parts cannot be made inaccessible in whole or in part during their operation because of…
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