Section 3: Health and safety coordination and coordinator.

Except in the case of operations undertaken by a private individual for his or her own personal use, as provided for in Article L. 4532-7, no person may act as coordinator unless he or she possesses the required competence in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 3 and 4.

A legal entity able to assign a competent natural person to this role may be appointed as coordinator.

A natural person who performs the function of coordinator, in his own name or in the name of the organisation which employs him, may not be entrusted with the function of technical inspector provided for in article L. 125-1 of the Code de la construction et de l’habitation in the context of the same building or civil engineering operation. Except in the case of operations undertaken by a private individual…

Co-ordination tasks are covered by specific written contracts or amendments. It is paid for separately. The remuneration takes into account, in particular, the time spent on site by the coordinator and, where applicable, the operating costs incurred in setting up the inter-company safety, health and working conditions committee, in particular secretarial costs.

Where the co-ordinator is employed by the project owner and is bound to the latter by an employment contract, the co-ordination assignment is the subject of a written document enabling each operation to be identified individually.

The contract, amendment or document : 1° Defines the content of the task entrusted to the coordinator, the resources, in particular the financial resources, that the project owner makes available to the coordinator and the authority it confers on the coordinator in relation to all those involved in the operation, the project owner and contractors, employers or self-employed workers; 2° Specifies the coordinator’s obligations, in particular the arrangements for his…